I’ve spent many years and countless pens and pieces of paper trying to relocate myself. It has been a wiry, breathtaking, heartbreaking, heart-opening, winding journey.

I believe we lose access to our authentic selves – our true selves, who we came onto this earth to be – because of the many layers of programming that we inherit, assimilate and adapt throughout our lives.

I found it very difficult to live outside of authenticity for most of my life, to live in other people’s worlds.

This work has brought me to the other side. It’s beautiful and free, and I can’t wait to meet you here.

Approach

I apply my background in depth work – exploring the unconscious –, somatic healing and symbology to help my clients release past conditioning, cultivate a visceral sense of agency and free will, and succeed from a place of true self.

I’m trained in Jungian and Archetypal coaching and Source Code, both of which take a depth psychological approach to healing. This is subliminal work - we explore the pieces below the surface where profound, lasting, joyful change can be initiated.

Once these places receive tending, we open ourselves up to the quantum, which offers expansion and magic that none of us can predict.

“I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself. And behold, then this ghost fled from me.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

I’m a coach, a writer, a mother.

Coaching helps me believe in human beings, our unending yearning to grow and be better, and in this eternal commitment, the promise that we will change the world.

Writing helps me penetrate my life and makes me feel sane (to paraphrase Natalie Goldberg).

Parenting helps me stay connected to the immense gratitude that accompanies the experience of being alive – that as humans we are able to run fast across fields, learn new words every day, cuddle with animals, eat sweet, juicy strawberries in the peak of summer, contemplate meaning, and love each other so very deeply. It also forces me every day to remember my edges, my shape – without which I would have no Self.

I live in Los Angeles, CA.

@annie__jefferson