Meet Annelise Cherie: Alignment Healer & Coach

We had the good fortune of connecting with Annelise Cherie and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Annelise, how do you think about risk?
Risk is a funny word as it implies that there are things in life that are guaranteed. Everything we do in life poses risk and uncertainty. The way I see it– it’s what we do with the risk that matters. We have two paths with the acknowledgment that all things pose a risk– one path is to fear it and not take action as a way to control the unknowns– the second path is to lean into it and turn the risk into trust. I did not always have this relationship with risk. I sadly spent most of my life afraid to take chances. It wasn’t until I decided to take the biggest risk in my life that I would find the way out of my fear and learn my unshakable purpose — consequently leading to the start of my business. My career began with taking a risk on my life — not just in my life.

Taking off to the jungles of Peru with people I hardly knew, to a monastery I knew little about, to partake in a spiritual detox that I didn’t understand. It was on my second night there that I realized I had not thought this over clearly and I was knee-deep in the middle of nowhere in the Amazon of Peru.
It was my second night there that I had the piercing realization that I had been so stuck by fear that I was pushed to a point in my life where I was willing to risk it all to move forward.

It was at this turning point that my relationship with risk would forever be changed. There was no turning back– I was there. I could have run… but instead, I leaned into my fear and let it take me to the realization– that in life there are two facts– we either live forever or only once– so take the risk. Live your life.. don’t sleep through it.

The wisdom and healing I gained by taking such a large risk turned into my greatest reward in life. And this was when I realized that the work is to leave risk at the door and turn that emotion into trust.

It was with this transition that I would begin my practice as an Alignment Coach and Reiki Healer with a focus on Mental Health and mindfulness to help people find their freedom like I was blessed to find mine.

Can you give our readers an introduction to your business? Maybe you can share a bit about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
I am an Alignment Coach & Healer. My practice is focused on Mental Health using mindfulness practices to help people better understand themselves.

Alignment healing is a process that uses the modality Reiki to connect to people’s energetic bodies. When I work on people I get very distinct information such as memories, experiences, and so on from the client’s energy field so that I can assist people in understanding what they are carrying in the body on an emotional level. This guidance allows for solutions to how they can maintain a mental awareness around whatever energetic limitation they might have or be carrying both in the mind and body.

The first 35 minutes is the healing and the second 45 minutes of the session I go over in full detail with the client what came up in the energy field so I can help facilitate the process of mental clarity and self-understanding and offer what solutions and perspectives can be brought in to help find more settledness and understanding of self.

Alignment Coaching offers all of the same benefits but with a focus more on thought patterns, limiting beliefs, and so on. At the end of each coaching session, I take clients through a channeled guided visualization– very similar to a guided meditation. What sets these mental exercises apart from a general guided meditation is that they are uniquely tailored to the client’s mindsets needs,

I’m most proud that my business has grown strictly through word of mouth and zero advertisements. I’m so proud that the services I provide for people actually have a lasting impact on their lives– and so much so that I’ve grown my business into what it is today. I’m so proud that I have a 99% return rate on client visits.

My chosen career path is unique and sometimes challenging in the sense that it’s not a career path but a lifestyle. To be able to help people in the way I do requires me to stay accountable and disciplined with myself. This means that I must stay committed to a life of facing all aspects of myself with the willingness to grow. Walk the talk as they say. If I don’t honor my own intuition and instincts daily then it affects my ability to hold the space that I do.

I’ve come to realize over the years that what we do for ourselves becomes possible for the world around us. And the willingness to face our struggles on the truest levels not only benefits our own life but everyone around and in it.

It became apparent to me that from my perspective there was no other work to be done in life besides working on oneself. So as a result, I dedicated my life to a career that would allow me to keep growing alongside the people I assist.

There is no question– this is my life’s purpose and I feel so blessed every day that I get to help people for a living. My platform really is to help people understand that mindfulness practices such as energy work, meditaiton, astrology are not things that belong to mystics but practices that are possible for all. These studies and abilities are part of human function and are available to all people as a means for self-development and it is my mission to normalize these tools into general self-care without the stigma or judgments.

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
I would take them to Au Luc in DTLA for the best plant-based meal of their life. The Chef started the @marchofsilence movement for animal peace and runs a silent kitchen. The food is out of this world delicious and presented as a piece of art. Afterward, I would either take them to the ET forest– a hidden forest trailhead in Griffith Park in Los Feliz to overlook the city. Or I would drive to the coast and enjoy a walk or paddleboard in the marina in Marina Del Rey. Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
I would like to give a shout-out to the first two books I read on mindfulness. It’s been nearly a decade since I read them so who knows if they stand. The first one is “The Noticer” by Andy Andrews. This book is a series of stories of people’s lives through the eyes of an elderly man. The whole book is about perspective, and how with one adjustment to the way we interpret our lives, we can find bliss, The second book is “E2” by Pam Grout. This book is an interactive book. It gives you a series of exercises to show you that what you focus on magnetizes. These two books were the start of my awareness of the power of perspective.

I would also like to shout out Linda Sheer who is the RN at The center of Awakened Health who has been such a gift in my guidance both spiritually and mentally

And also would like to give a shoutout to Amaru Spirit Spiritual Detox center in Iquitos Peru for the proper sacred space held to go deep within.

Website: www.annelisecherie.com

Instagram: @annelisecherie

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVwgW6_uK-cPcD6rlVXrEgQ

Other: Find me on Clubhouse – Annelise Cherie

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