Healing Beyond Labels: Alana Joy’s Path to Embodied Sovereignty

This week on the Choose Your Soul Show, we welcome a powerful guest: Alana Joy Newton — a body-based truth-teller, psychotherapist, and soul guide who helps people come back home to themselves through storytelling, somatic healing, and radical self-reclamation.Alana’s journey from chronic disconnection, medical gaslighting, and a rare connective tissue diagnosis to spiritual awakening and embodied sovereignty is one of raw power and deep remembrance. She shares how she went from living as a “floating head” to reconnecting with her soul, healing through shadow work, and rejecting labels that once defined her.💫 Inside This Episode:Alana’s powerful origin story of soul disconnection at age sixHer journey through Western medicine and eventual diagnosis with Ehlers-Danlos SyndromeWhy she stopped identifying with her diagnosis and began a deep path of healing through embodimentThe difference between clinical psychology and spiritual guidanceHer first spiritual “download” and the moment she realized she was PleiadeanHow storytelling, psychedelics, and shadow work helped her reclaim her truthThe importance of memento mori and the gifts of death, ego death, and rebirthWhy nervous system regulation and gentle somatic practices are key to sustainable healingThe trap of labels, masks, and the journey toward personal sovereignty🛠️ Alana’s Offerings:1:1 Mentorship & Therapy - book a call through Alana's websiteBeneath the Surface: A group program for people ready to reconnect with emotions, body, and intuitionThe Masks We Wear: A signature workshop exploring identity, conditioning, and self-expression📘 Upcoming Book Contribution: “The Sovereign” – a multi-author collaboration featuring stories of reclaiming personal power🔗 Connect with Alana: Website: alanajoynewton.com Instagram: @alana_joy_newtonWe hope we can inspire you on this journey with us 🫱🏼‍🫲🏽📲If you liked this episode, leave us a review! Subscribe to our show and share it to your socials, and make sure you follow @chooseyoursoulshow on instagram📰 Subscribe & Sign up for the newsletter to never miss a show https://chooseyoursoul.show/Follow the hosts on Instagram at @bigdreamhakeem & @thesourcejunkie

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