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 six
• Her journey through Western medicine and eventual diagnosis with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
• Why she stopped identifying with her diagnosis and began a deep path of healing through embodiment
• The difference between clinical psychology and spiritual guidance
• Her first spiritual “download” and the moment she realized she was Pleiadean
• How storytelling, psychedelics, and shadow work helped her reclaim her truth
• The importance of memento mori and the gifts of death, ego death, and rebirth
• Why nervous system regulation and gentle somatic practices are key to sustainable healing
• The trap of labels, masks, and the journey toward personal sovereignty

🛠️ Alana’s Offerings:

• 1:1 Mentorship & Therapy - book a call through Alana's website
• Beneath the Surface: A group program for people ready to reconnect with emotions, body, and intuition
• The 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_newton

We hope we can inspire you on this journey with us 🫱🏼‍🫲🏽

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