Joanne's Story
Joanne was born in Marikina, Philippines. Growing up in the Philippines, she witnessed the overthrow of the Marcos dictatorship and the election of the first female president in 1986.
Joanne left the Philippines with her mother and three sisters and moved to the Bay Area in California when she was 11. In college, she studied Sociology at the University of California Irvine. After graduation, she worked with intellectually disabled adults and helped advocate for their integration into the community. At 26, she returned to school, completed a Master of Science in Nursing at the University of California San Francisco, and became a nurse practitioner.
As a nurse practitioner, Joanne has had the wonderful opportunity to work with people with physical illness in the context of western medicine. She has worked in nephrology, gastroenterology, and asthma/allergy for the past ten years. For 12 years, she has also worked as a nurse for adults with intellectual disabilities living in residential care facilities. Her career in nursing has given her valuable knowledge about the physical body.
Joanne’s interest in healing the non-physical began in her early 20s when she learned and became passionate about meditation. In meditation, she connected with her inner self for the first time and started to heal from her childhood wounds. Later in her 30s, while experiencing postpartum depression and a miscarriage, Joanne needed a new teacher and a renewed spiritual practice. Her search led her to one of Deborah King’s energy healing workshops.
Learning energy healing led Joanne deeper into the inner world of her emotions and thoughts and into the invisible, mystical world of spirit. Her inner journey helped to awaken a deeper purpose, and she now would like to help empower others in their inner journey to healing not just the physical self but the many dimensions of the self that make a person whole and healthy.
Joanne believes we all ultimately work towards the same goal on our own paths. The mystery, the adventure, and the discovery of the real self on this path make life truly exciting!
*Joanne is now living in Paris, France, enjoying her new adventure with her daughter and husband. She is fluent in English, and Tagalog and is actively pursuing learning French.*