What if the resilience you’ve been so proud of is actually keeping you from listening to yourself?
In this episode of Leading with Purpose, Mark Porteous sits down with transformational guide, author, and creator of SacredSHE Reset, Cherie Ashana, for a powerful conversation about what happens when we stop constantly pushing through and give ourselves permission to truly reset.
Cherie shares her deeply personal journey through health challenges, surgeries, burnout, grief, and early menopause—and how repeatedly “bouncing back” eventually forced her to look beneath the surface. She discovered that what she had called resilience was sometimes actually overriding her own needs, emotions, and inner guidance.
Key Takeaways:
- Resilience isn't always healing.Sometimes strength means overriding your own needs and emotions.
- A reset begins with reflection.Pause, take stock, and recognize the patterns you’ve been repeating.
- Reconnecting with yourself creates space for joy.Knowing and embodying your truth can lead to deeper contentment.
- Grief needs to be experienced, not hidden.Support and connection can help you move through it.
- Leading with purpose begins with embodiment.Lead from your heart, soul, lived experience, and truth.
- Healing creates an overflow you can give from.Caring for yourself gives you more capacity to support others.
About the Guest:
Cherie Ashana is a women's midlife threshold guide, sound healer, and author of The SacredSHE Reset. After early menopause at thirty-eight and an exhaustion that cracked her open, she devoted over two decades to the healing arts, training in iridology, flower essence therapy, sound and voice, herbalism, transpersonal art therapy, bodywork, and energy healing. But her deepest teacher was her own unravelling and return.
Now based in Panama and working globally, Cherie creates sacred space for women in midlife to rest, restore, and rediscover their natural rhythm. Through her signature Elemental Voice Alchemy practice, she guides women from depletion to radiance, helping them reclaim their voice, their energy, and their sense of home within themselves.
As founder of AwakenedSHE, Cherie leads retreats, workshops, and online programs for women navigating the sacred threshold of midlife. Her work weaves the practical and the mystical, the scientific and the soulful, always grounded in lived experience rather than theory.
She believes that leading with purpose begins with coming home to yourself, and that the world needs more women who have remembered their worth.
Connect with Cherie:
Website: https://awakenedshe.com/
Gifts/Offers:
SacredSHE Reset Book: https://amzn.to/4x5Iq0W
SacredSHE Reset Circle (private Community):https://www.facebook.com/groups/sacredsheresetcircle
Complimentary 7-day Reset eBook & resources:https://gifts.awakenedshe.com/ebook-879895
About Me:
Hi, I’m Mark Porteous; the Soul Connector.
My stand is for ALL people to recognize themselves as Divine Beings who have chosen the human experience for a reason and to live in alignment with that knowing, so they can THRIVE in their purpose of transforming lives.
I help mission driven entrepreneurs to make their Soul Connections so that they can impact and change the world, scale their businesses to six and seven figures, and enjoy thrilling Soul Success in every arena of their lives.
Connect with me at:
https://markporteous.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/markcporteous
https://www.instagram.com/mark.porteous1/
https://www.facebook.com/markcporteous/
Take the Soulful Leadership Assessment here: https://markporteous.com/#tve-jump-184964db927
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