We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Angelica Neri. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Angelica below.
Alright, Angelica thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Can you recount a story of an unexpected problem you’ve faced along the way?
When I first started my business, I was deeply afraid of burning out as I had done with my previous jobs. I wanted to create a successful business that brought me joy and financial security, but not at the cost of exhaustion and old chronic conditions rising to the surface. I started to look into programs that could guide me in setting up my business to thrive and what I found was that majority of businesses were operating under a rigid system of 1000% output 24/7. Sure enough, as I followed this lead, my body paid the cost, which eventually led to my business. This is when I made the profound connection that my body’s messages were reflected in my business challenges. The same way that when my body was in alignment, so was my business.
As an intuitive healer for the past 10 years, I have learned, studied and experienced what it means to be irrevocably connected to my mind, body and spirit. As a spiritual business owner, I know see how this connection brings in opportunities and abundance for my business. For example, I noticed that when my body started to put on weight and feel stuck, my business also came to a screeching halt. Less clients started to show up, and there was a lack of opportunities coming in. At another time in my business, when my body was burnt out, exhausted and starving for nourishment, my business similarly was suffering from ‘burn out’. Creating content felt like carrying a heavy 100 lb block, and I was uninspired showing up for my current programs and courses.
When I finally began to listen to my body and heal the way I knew best, with the science of Ayurveda, the world’s most ancient holistic healing system, I applied those principles to my business. I knew that when my body was feeling stuck and holding on to weight, I needed to digest the emotions that were keeping me stuck in the past. I also needed to grieve my past identity and take time to authentically let it go. Similarly in my business, I needed to look at what offerings were no longer fitting the new identity I was stepping into. I needed to evolve my offerings so that they fit my current truth, desires and areas of expertise.
In deeply understanding the energies within my body and business, I applied the key principles of Ayurveda to create a solid foundation for building a successful business and have been guiding my clients to do the same for the past 3 years. Instead of dismissing your body’s needs, you can actually use that wisdom to heal and build a thriving business. This is the future of businesses, and I am grateful to be leading a community for this new wave.
Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.
My name is Angelica, I have been an intuitive healer for the past decade as a certified Ayurvedic Practitioner, 500 hr Yoga Instructor and Reiki Master. I lead online courses, a community membership and 1:1 mentorship to teach women how to become certified intuitive healers and how to setup successful spiritual businesses. I am super passionate about women remembering the greatest power they hold within, which is their intuition. We each have a deep inner knowing within us that is expressed in various ways such as visions, synchronicities, dreams, feelings and cognitive downloads. However, we live in a culture that makes us doubt and devalue those gifts. When you reclaim the power of your intuition, you have the power to heal your mind, body and spirit and lead a full life of intention. This brings in aligned relationships, magnetic opportunities, magical careers and serendipitous moments that make life worth while.
I have guided over 100s of women to heal their mind, body and spirit and start successful businesses. What I am most proud of is how this has affected every other area of their life. In putting in the work to heal, these women have had the courage to leave toxic relationships, attract in successful business opportunities, move to their dream homes and follow their heart’s truest desires. I am honored to have worked with the most incredible women from all over the world!
Can you tell us about a time you’ve had to pivot?
It is an interesting perspective to pinpoint when you had your ‘spiritual awakening’. I can certainly recall distinct times in my life where I chose to go right instead of left like leaving my job in Fashion PR and becoming a FT yoga instructor or breaking away from my business partner to bring my own business vision to life. All of these experiences dramatically changed my life for the better. However, I can also recall florescent moments in my childhood like conversations with God and my spirit guides that parallel my present day ‘spiritual’ experiences. Is there an ending and a beginning to your spiritual awakening?
What I can extract from each of these profound turning points in my life is that they were always guiding me to reclaim my power ⚡️ and step into my fullest potential ✨. As lovely as that sounds, I have always been terrified of operating at my fullest potential and have been told this since I was a young girl. Maybe it is from years of witnessing what power looks like in a world full of pain and suffering forced upon us from a partriarchal, colonistic and misogynistic world. It can also be from a deep fear of not being loved and accepted by others when I am at my fullest potential and allowing all parts of myself (shame, guilt, fear) to be seen. Or maybe both, ya feel me?
But what even is power? I’ve come to reprogram that power is not dominating over someone else with positions, money or voice 🤬. It is certainly not projecting and repeating traumas on to others 😥. And, it is most definitely not silencing others 🤫 and making them feel small and worthless 🤐. Having true, authentic power means to nurture, maintain and expand abundance in every aspect of life itself. I feel powerful when I am deeply connected to my body 🙋🏼♀️, and it is full of life force energy. When I can nourish myself financially, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. I am powerful when I trust my intuition and share my authentic voice with my community.
I truly see my power as a glittery golden Queen 👸🏼 that wears a crown with her chin held high, throat fully exposed, heart wide open 💚 and feet firmly rooted. While this may sound like my journey has been a perfect, yellow brick road to Oz, it had been met with many resistances or flying monkeys 🙈, whichever you prefer.
My power is experienced in many different forms and at its foundation, it lies in my body. Most healers are initiated to take a turning point on their journey with yells from their physical, mental and emotional body. For me, digestive issues like IBS and hormonal imbalances like amenorrhea awakened me from my ‘avoidant, party girl’ slumber 😴 and lack of answers from western medicine, to find a deeper, truer connection with my Self. I reclaimed the power I had relinquished to external forces like western doctors and addictive substances and behaviors and remembered what I always had within me. I was left feeling inextricably connected to my mind, body and soul and earned a jewel on my crown 👸🏼.
With my crown shining bright, it became crystal clear that my next step into nurturing my power was to answer my call of becoming an intuitive healer 🔮. I had to shoo away the flying monkeys 🐵 telling me that I needed to put my Marketing degree to work at a societally acceptable corporation job and secure salary and proceeded to become a Yoga Studio Manager. Already I started to feel lighter choosing an even more unconventional and creative career path than what the rest of the world seemed to be choosing. The external cries of the patriarchy trying to shroud me from my power began to fade.
While this was a reclamation of my power at first, I realized this job was a flying monkey in disguise 🙈. Although I had flexibility in my job and it was more aligned with my soul’s calling, I was working 50+ hours a week and getting paid like I was working less than 20 hours 😓. My power was dwindled to a flickering light as burnout overtook my physical, mental and emotional body. Yet, that flicker of a flame spoke to me and said, ‘you were meant for more’ 🤗. I deeply desired (and always had) to become an entrepreneur, leading my own community, having flexibility, financial and soul freedom. Despite my business + marketing degree and innate entrepreneurial skills from my ancestral lineage, I deeply doubted 😞 my ability to create a FT income sharing my intuitive gifts.
“Who on Earth would pay for spiritual insights and growth?!” (Btw I love laughing at these past beliefs that feel so ridiculous given my present life experiences validating the exact opposite🤪.) At the time, this belief felt sooo real. My immensely, successful, entrepreneur, italian blooded, business savy, masculine- oriented father 👨🏽💻 said “You want to be an in-tui-tive healer?”. I felt as delusional as it sounded to him.
While I deeply trusted the voice of my power and did not deny that this was my path ( I truly never questioned I would be doing anything else and that’s when you know its dharma 🌙), I felt terrified to start something on my own. Would people think I was an attention hog trying to claim the spotlight 🐷? Can I honestly trust myself with that much power of having my own business and sharing my unique voice 🧐? I couldn’t bare the thought, so I leaped at the first opportunity of starting a business with a business partner. We were a fiery, magnetic pair and experienced such great success in the beginning.
Until, my power was dwindling again, this time, to an even dimmer flicker of light ✨. My chronic conditions came back with a vengeance with more to add on, I was making less than I had at my last job and I felt completely disconnected from my intuition. I had no idea where to go from here. Why wasn’t this working? I knew this is what I was meant to be doing, but nothing seemed to be working anymore 😑😩.
On my knees beginning for answers (literally and figuratively), I was shown how this was my same pattern of giving away my power, yet again and how I had been ignoring my own needs, desires and visions. One of my visions was to start the Divine Feminine Healer’s Academy, a double certification program to become an Intuitive Healer. Of course, I had been teaching this all along; however, it wanted to be birthed in a different form, receiving an official accreditation. The flying monkeys told me 🐒 ‘I wasn’t legit enough”, “You need to be teaching Ayurveda more to the book to be accredited” and “Who is going to want a program that teaches Reiki + Ayurveda, too niche!” and I listened for a while, like a year. It is wild how the voice of the inner critic can really run the show, when you suppress it and pretend like it doesn’t exist. For over a year, my business suffered, my body was exhausted, and I felt powerless. It wasn’t an overnight realization that eventually woke me back up. It was the little everyday practices I devoted to trusting my intuition that eventually turned the dial up on my inner voice again. With hard work and diligence, I felt my crown on my head once more and earned myself a second jewel 👸🏼.
I made a devastating decision to break away from my business partnership, launched my true vision- the Divine Feminine Healer’s Academy- with success, rebuilt my own community and business from the ground up and faced literally every fear I had avoided from my initial choice to start my own business. I had reclaimed every part of my power that I had fully outsourced to my previous brand and business partner. This meant learning and facing the legalities and financial aspects of my business, asking and receiving all levels of support from loved ones (yes that had to mean financially too. I want to be 100% real with you all as entrepreneurs because this shit isn’t easy), finding and sharing my authentic voice unapologetically and trusting and fulfilling my needs, desires and visions.
If there was ever a moment to call something a spiritual awakening, I would call this my cosmic explosion. I grew my IG audience to 20k, was receiving consistent clients and income from my spiritual gifts and felt more connected to my body and intuition than ever before. I had fully stepped into my power ⚡️.
I feel so grateful for the flying monkeys in the past 🐒, because without that resistance, I wouldn’t have been pushed to trust my power and flaunt my flashy, golden crown 👸🏼. Aside from the beauty that exudes from my aura when I step into my Queen energy, this golden life lesson has given me a life of total fulfillment. My soul is dripping with nourishment after each angel of a client that magically appears and gifts me with the opportunity to work with them. I fully trust my intuition that speaks through my body, emotions and spirit.
Don’t get me wrong, I am still on my path to nurturing my lifeforce energy and still am learning lessons daily. I’ve had ‘failed launches’, hired the wrong assistant and missed my goals more times than I can count. The difference is in my devotion to doing this as my life’s work. I see each ‘mistake’ as ways to redirect me closer to my truth, because I know in my heart that my soul purpose is to teach women how to fully step into their power as Intuitive Queens 👸🏼 and share their authentic voice with the world.
Contact Info:
- Website: angelicaroseneri.com
- Instagram: instagram.com/angelica_feminine_healer
- Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/Angelica_Feminine_Healer/
Image Credits
Talia Dinwiddie