Meet Cherie
Meet Cherie-Ashana
Founder of AwakenedSHE | Author | Midlife Transformation Guide
Hello, beautiful one.
I’m Cherie-Ashana, and I help women in midlife who have spent years holding everything together begin returning to themselves.
The women I work with are often capable, caring, and deeply resilient. They have built lives, supported families, carried responsibilities and become the person others rely upon.
Yet beneath that strength, many are exhausted.
They feel disconnected from their bodies, their voice, their joy, or the woman they once knew themselves to be. Rest may offer temporary relief, but it does not reach the deeper depletion created by years of overriding their own needs.
Through AwakenedSHE, I offer personalised sessions, transformational programs, voice and sound experiences, flower essence work, retreats and sacred spaces where women can slow down, listen inward and reclaim the radiance that has always been there.
I believe midlife is not a decline.
It is a threshold.
An invitation to stop disappearing inside the life you have created and begin belonging to yourself again.
My Story
My work did not begin with a business plan.
It began with my own unraveling.
At thirty-eight, I found myself in the depths of early menopause—exhausted, confused, and feeling like a stranger in my own body.
The capable woman who had always kept going no longer knew how to keep carrying everything in the same way.
I was left facing questions that could not be answered by treating symptoms alone:
Who am I now?
What happens when the version of me who survived is no longer the woman I am being asked to become?
What does restoration look like when rest is not enough?
My journey through infertility, early menopause, trauma, identity loss and profound personal reinvention changed the direction of my life.
I began searching for ways to understand the whole woman—not only her symptoms, but her emotional landscape, nervous system, voice, patterns, relationships, purpose and sense of belonging.
That search led me through herbalism, flower essences, iridology, nutrition, NLP, breathwork, somatic and embodiment practices, sound healing, voice work and energy medicine.
Each discipline offered another piece of the picture.
But my deepest education came from living the work in my own body.
I learned that resilience can quietly become self-override.
That being needed is not the same as belonging.
That a woman can appear strong while becoming increasingly absent from herself.
And that healing is not always about becoming more.
Sometimes it begins when we stop abandoning who we already are.
The Path I Have Walked
My work is woven from lived experience, professional training, creative expression, and a lifelong relationship with nature.
A Life Shaped by Many Lands
From the age of twenty-one, I spent more than thirteen years travelling and living across different countries.
Those journeys exposed me to cultures, landscapes, traditions and ways of understanding wellbeing that extended far beyond the conventional.
Travel became a form of apprenticeship.
The Earth taught me rhythm. Different cultures taught me perspective. Beginning again taught me courage.
Today, my life continues to move between countries, communities and sacred landscapes, with Panama as my current base and my work reaching women around the world.
A Sacred Life with Flowers
My relationship with flowers began long before I became a flower essence practitioner.
I once owned a fresh-cut flower farm in South Africa, where I taught myself floristry and became immersed in the seasonal language of petals, stems, colour and scent.
After returning to Australia in 2008, I opened a florist shop and continued working closely with the beauty and intelligence of the natural world.
Today, that relationship lives on through my work with Australian Bush Flower Essences.
Flowers are no longer simply something I arrange.
They have become botanical allies—supporting women through emotional change, grief, transition, sensitivity and the process of returning to themselves.
Healing Through Creativity and the Shadows
My path has also taken me through abusive and emotionally damaging relationships.
During one of the darkest periods of my life, Transpersonal Art Therapy became a profound source of healing.
Creativity helped me express what words could not yet hold.
It taught me that art, voice, movement and ritual are not decorative additions to healing. They can become pathways through which the body processes, releases and remembers.
That understanding continues to inform the spaces I hold for women today.
Training and Professional Background
My training spans holistic wellbeing, emotional transformation, voice, sound and botanical support, including:
- Advanced Herbalism and Evolutionary Herbalism
- Australian Bush Flower Essence Practitioner training
- Advanced Physical Iridology
- The Spiral Practitioner training
- Master NLP and Timeline Therapy®
- Feminine Embodiment
- HeartMath® and breathwork facilitation
- Sing to Thrive certified teaching
- Sound Healing Levels 1, 2 and 3
- Remedial, Swedish, Shiatsu and Lomi Lomi massage
- Cupping therapy
- Reiki II
- Ashati Multidimensional Energy Healing
- Facilitation, speaking and authorship
My work brings these different strands together without reducing a woman to a symptom, score or label.
I bridge structure with intuition, science with soul and practical change with embodied experience.
My Work and Mission
AwakenedSHE exists to support women in midlife who are ready to stop living through chronic self-override and begin restoring their relationship with themselves.
At the heart of my work is a simple belief:
Radiance is not something a woman must manufacture. It is what begins to reveal itself when she stops abandoning herself.
My offerings are designed to help women reconnect with their inner ground, voice, rhythm, vitality and self-trust.
Invitation
Sacred One-to-One Sessions
My private sessions offer personalised support for women navigating exhaustion, emotional overwhelm, identity change, menopause and major life transitions.
The SacredSHE Reset Session is a 90-minute personalised midlife reset, beginning with the Sacred Threshold Assessment and drawing upon reflective conversation, breath, sound, voice, embodiment, elemental wisdom and flower essence support.
The Sacred Bloom Consultation is a focused flower essence experience for women seeking emotional and botanical support during grief, burnout, hormonal change or transition.
For women ready for deeper support, the Private SacredSHE Reset Journey offers a sustained one-to-one pathway over several weeks.
Sessions are available online worldwide, with in-person availability in selected locations.
BECOME™
BECOME is my signature transformational pathway for capable midlife women who are tired of holding everything together while quietly running on empty.
Through this group program, women are supported to interrupt patterns of self-override, reconnect with their bodies and rhythm, reclaim their voice and begin making choices from self-trust.
BECOME™ is the deeper pathway that brings the philosophy of AwakenedSHE into lived, embodied change.
S.H.E. Sacred HeartSong Expression
S.H.E. Circles are immersive gatherings where women use breath, rhythm, sound and intuitive voice to reconnect with authentic expression.
These circles are not about performing or singing beautifully.
They are about allowing the voice to become a pathway back to truth, joy, release and belonging.
Retreats, Workshops and Group Experiences
I facilitate retreats, ceremonies, sound journeys and women’s experiences that weave together ritual, reflection, embodiment, nature, creativity and shared resonance.
These spaces offer women the rare opportunity to step outside their responsibilities, hear themselves again and remember what becomes possible in the presence of sisterhood.
SacredSHE Reset
SacredSHE Reset is my book and the heart of my wider body of work.
It is a companion for women navigating the threshold of midlife and explores themes of menopause, identity, self-abandonment, restoration, voice, ritual and returning to oneself.
The book does not ask women to reinvent themselves.
It invites them to stop disappearing.
SacredSHE Reset Podcast
The SacredSHE Reset Podcast — Awakening Your Radiant Wisdom is being created as a space for honest, soulful conversations about midlife, menopause, identity, voice, healing, creativity and what it means for a woman to belong to herself.
Through solo reflections and conversations with wise women and creative visionaries, the podcast will explore the deeper awakenings that often arrive disguised as disruption.
The EvolveHER Foundation
The EvolveHER Foundation is the developing not-for-profit arm of AwakenedSHE.
Its vision is to support women moving through significant transitions through access to immersive reset experiences, story and voice, practical skills, micro-enterprise opportunities, sanctuary, sisterhood and community.
This work is still unfolding, with a longer-term vision of creating meaningful support that extends beyond individual transformation into collective impact.
The Four Pillars of Radiance
The Four Pillars of Radiance provide a philosophical foundation for much of my work.
They are not a rigid system or a linear path. They are living areas of remembrance that women may return to again and again.
Health — The Ground Beneath Your Feet
Reconnecting with the body, nervous system, energy and the rhythms that support sustainable wellbeing.
Healing — The Waters of Transformation
Allowing emotion to move, releasing what has been carried and tending the patterns that keep a woman disconnected from herself.
Happiness — The Song of Your Soul
Reclaiming joy, creativity, expression and the parts of life that make a woman feel truly alive.
Heart — The Gateway to Grace
Deepening self-belonging, connection, compassion and relationship with something greater than the individual self.
Together, these pillars remind us that radiance is not a performance.
It is the natural expression of a woman living in deeper relationship with herself.
Where You’ll Find Me
My roots are no longer tethered to one place.
I am currently based in Panama, while continuing to work online with women internationally and travelling to teach, speak and facilitate gatherings in different parts of the world.
You may find me beside the ocean, walking through rainforest, gathering flowers, photographing landscapes or sitting quietly with a journal and a flower essence nearby.
You may also find me playing the hang drum, sounding a gong, singing beneath an open sky or following the rhythm of whatever land I am blessed to call home.
My life is not separate from my work.
It is part of the practice.
A Closing Invitation
Thank you for taking the time to meet me here.
Beyond the titles, qualifications, and frameworks, what matters most to me is how a woman feels in my presence.
Seen, rather than assessed.
Supported, rather than fixed.
Invited, rather than pressured.
I have been the woman awake at three in the morning with night sweats and anxious thoughts.
I have been the woman whose old identity no longer fits.
I have known the grief of infertility, the disorientation of early menopause, and the long process of learning how to mother and belong to myself.
I do not stand above the women I work with.
I walk beside them.
My role is not to tell you who to become.
It is to help create the conditions in which you can hear yourself clearly enough to remember.
You are not broken.
You are not too late.
And you do not need to become smaller to find peace.
You are becoming more fully your own.
With love and belief in the woman you are becoming,
Cherie-Ashana
