Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Anne Ferguson. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Hi Anne, thanks for joining us today. It’s always helpful to hear about times when someone’s had to take a risk – how did they think through the decision, why did they take the risk, and what ended up happening. We’d love to hear about a risk you’ve taken.

I’ve taken many risks in my life, each one becoming a stepping stone toward the woman I am today.

The first big leap came in my late 20’s when I packed up my car, my cat, and a few belongings, and left Tennessee for the wide unknown world heading to Washington State. I had just enough money in my pocket, faith that I could find a restaurant job (I was a waitress at the time), and a burning desire to live life on my own terms—free from the constraints of my family’s culture.

In truth, I was running—seeking freedom but carrying the weight of an unhealed addiction to drugs and alcohol. That journey, though full of adventure and independence, eventually led me to a breaking point. After ten years, I reached out for help and moved back to the Midwest, to Minneapolis, where the healing process began. Through struggle, surrender, and the beginnings of inner work to heal my demons, I achieved and have maintained my sobriety since November 2, 2003.

Another profound risk came years later. After eight years sober and five years into my career as an addiction’s counselor, I began feeling the toll of chronic stress. My health and spirit were calling for something more. In prayer, I asked my Higher Power for guidance—and was soon introduced to a program called Higher Brain Living®. It awakened my mind and created access in my brain to unleash more potential I hadn’t yet tapped. I quickly became a Higher Brain Living facilitator

That then led me to another leap of faith—moving to Georgia to be closer to my family and to support my parents, especially my father who was facing a decline in dementia. That move also marked the beginning of my entrepreneurial path, one I had never imagined for myself. As I deepened my work of personal growth and spiritual awakening, I realized I was no longer here just to survive in the mundane—I was here to serve, evolve, and lead.

When I moved from Minnesota to Georgia, I drove a 15-foot U-Haul packed with everything I thought I needed—the belongings of a 2-bedroom apartment and even my newly purchased motorcycle. (i was a new independent rider) Seven years later, after immense inner work, releasing of old paradigms and evolved healing. I returned to Minnesota with only what fit inside my car and on its roof top. To me, that was a perfect reflection of my evolution and the lightness that comes when you shed what no longer serves you.

The difference between those two moves was profound. In my (pre-awakening) earlier years, I was running from something; in my later years, (post awakening) I was moving toward something—a new life, a new me, and as a new way of being in the world.

Today, I stand as a strong woman and a leader, who lives as her Fearlessly Authentic Self. Every risk, every leap, every surrender has been part of my awakening—and I would not change a thing on the path unless it was that I started it earlier!

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I’m deeply grateful for the path that brought me to where I am today. When I was feeling burned out and overstressed in my career as an addictions counselor. I asked the deeper questions and prayed for a solution and connected deeper inside myself finding “soulution.” That is when I discovered the real issue was not outside of me — it was my brain– stuck in survival mode. I learned I was living from lower states of consciousness: fear, control, victimhood, and emotional suppression.

I ecstatically signed up for the Higher Brain Living® program, where I learned how to shift from those old patterns into higher brain activation — the place where higher vibration emotions and thoughts life creativity, clarity, abundance, and joy live. Within those six months of weekly sessions, I experienced a profound awakening that changed the directory of my life. It also provided me with a clear purpose: to help others who feel stuck, stressed, or disconnected to find their own path of freedom and self-discovery.

That became the foundation for my business, SOULutions, a holistic wellness practice. I combine Higher Brain Activation with The Emotion Code and Body Code to help clients release trapped emotions, realign energy systems, and move beyond the unconscious programming that keeps them in the energy of repeating old cycles.
I also offer BEMER technology, a pulsed electromagnetic technology that improves circulation, relaxation, and overall vitality, as well as Body Balancing Drops, which are a natural, homeopathic formula that supports hormone balance, metabolism, and emotional wellness. .

It’s time to look at us as WholeBeings and stop the fragmentation our culture is pushing us into. That belief is what drives my holistic approach — we heal and evolve not by fixing parts, but by reconnecting to our wholeness.

What I believe sets SOULutions apart is its brain-first, soul-centered approach. We awaken potential from within rather than trying to fix from the outside. My clients are people who are ready to evolve and transcend from stress to freedom, from survival to creation, and from self-doubt to self-mastery.

I’m proud that I live what I teach. I maintain my own daily practices of brain activation, emotional release, and holistic wellness, constantly creating impactful “reSOULutions” for my own growth. My work is about walking alongside others and mentoring them as they remember who they are as powerful beings, releasing what no longer serves them, and rising into their most authentic, powerful selves.

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

The biggest lesson I’ve had to unlearn is that emotions are “too hard” to deal with.

Before I went to substance use treatment, my emotional world was limited to two familiar states — depression and over-excitement. I didn’t yet understand that these were survival responses, the body’s way of coping with trauma, disconnection, and the self-protective patterns I’d developed over the years.

Like so many of us, I was conditioned to believe that emotions were messy, inconvenient, and best kept under control or numbed out. Through my recovery journey, I slowly began to expand that emotional range. I started to feel again — grief, joy, anger, peace — and discovered that each emotion held wisdom and energy waiting to move through me. What once felt unbearable became my greatest teacher.

As my awakening deepened through HBL, I learned that emotions are simply energy in motion. They aren’t meant to define us — they’re meant to guide us. By allowing myself to feel fully and release attachments to the stories behind those feelings, I found freedom. Today, through Higher Brain activation and emotional release work, I live and teach from this understanding: that emotional energy is meant to flow, not be suppressed or feared.

True inner wellness isn’t about controlling how we feel — it’s about meeting every emotion with compassion, curiosity, and presence. Unlearning the fear to experience my own emotions has been one of the most liberating parts of my journey. It’s what allows me to stand grounded, open, and in harmony with life — living proof that healing happens when we stop running from our feelings and start listening to them.

If you could go back in time, do you think you would have chosen a different profession or specialty?

Yes, without a doubt. My entire life has been an unfolding toward this work — helping people awaken to their potential, release emotional pain, and live as WholeBeings has been at the core of who I am and now what I offer. What once to me felt like chaos and confusion was actually my initiation to be an entrepreneur. Every experience — the pain, the addiction, the self-loathing, the cultural conditioning, and the long climb back to self-love — became part of the life curriculum my soul had designed for me.

I can now see that I used to believe my life was about surviving, but I now it has always been about evolving.
This life force pull has become the heartbeat of SOULutions, where science, spirituality, and energy come together to awaken higher potential. I would say that what I do isn’t just healing — it’s evolution in motion. Through Higher Brain Living, Emotion and Body Code, and other integrative modalities, I get to witness people awaken from their patterns and move from survival into expansion. That transformation — from constriction to creation, from victimhood to vitality — is what keeps me passionate about this work every single day.

If I could go back, I would choose this path again and again. Because it has brough me to live in alignment with my soul’s purpose while being able to witness others come home to theirs. Watching someone shift their perspective and their ways of being, from within, and reclaim their power, to begin to consciously create a new life — if the most fulfilling “yes” I could ever give.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.afsoulutions.com/
• Instagram: https://instagram.com/afsoulutions
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/afsoulutions
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-ferguson/
• Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/@AnneFergusonSOULutions