Joann Malanga started working in the Senior Living industry as a nurse’s aide at the age of 19 while attending college. She experienced what it felt like to be at the caring end of the spectrum as she came face to face with the senior population. Single at the time living in North Jersey in a “fast go-go pace” kind of town! She found herself frustrated and appalled by the care and at times neglect that the seniors were getting in the communities. She knew that she could do better and make a difference in the Assisted Living Communities and as a leader. It was a pivotal point in Joann’s life at that moment in 1998, when she realized that she was meant to lead and be a channel for big change. She had a vision of leading facilities and knew how to work and that is where her journey began back in 1998. She shifted all her courses from Nursing to Business Administration/Humanities. Joann Malanga, Soul Integration Coach, Alchemist, Energy Healing On the weekends she made it a point to volunteer when the facilities needed help with activities. She worked tirelessly, and even though she could not always see the road or direction she was heading in, she always could see the result. Over 10 years Joann experienced every facet of the Assisted Living Industry, from being a nurse's aide, cleaning in housekeeping coordinating resident care services/schedules, running the kitchen, and passing out medications as a certified medication Tech. She was ready to start running communities and that is exactly what she started to do after college. As an Executive Director, she has run smaller communities with a resident capacity of 60 residents to larger communities with over 154 units as well as a community that specialized for the memory impaired. Throughout her experience, she has gained awareness, and empathy skills, and has always strived to be a conscientious leader. She realized that running a business was more about channeling one's energy and always about how you show up! This also pushed her into her awakening. She started to feel more sensitive around energy, and also feel spirit when someone would transition in the communities. She had no idea how to navigate this energy. The worst was when she felt dark energy or was being spiritually attacked. That's when she fell deeper into her spiritual healing and awakening and started to seek out shamans to work with, and healing practitioners. Fast-forward 30 years later, she found that working with people made a profound difference in her life mentally, spiritually, and emotionally. She has so much passion about “connection”, and still believes that people are meant to be around people, connecting and thriving in life, and not alone in a box following rules because someone says so. Joann completed her Reiki (Master), and Integrative Energy Practitioner while working full-time as an Executive Director at one of the most reputable AL communities. Joann also became a Certified Life Coach Universal Rays Practitioner and RTT Hypnotherapist. On her journey of self-discovery of dark and light – she found the only way out of the dark was through facing herself and the many lives she had within herself. She is certainly a spiritual powerhouse with abilities beyond this world. She is an experienced healer with 30 years of practice in the field. Her intuitive abilities encompass clairvoyance, clairsentience, shamanic healing, and alchemy. Joann offers Soul Integration Coaching, specializing in shadow work integration and hands-on healing to support the energy body. To assist in the process of ascension, Joann helps you utilize the power of self-awareness and incorporate angelic light. Her Soul purpose as a Soul Integration Coach and Healer is driven by the desire to support others on their spiritual journeys and to awaken humanity out of slumber. When you seek a healing session from her, expect to receive clarity, inner guidance and cut through any bullshit. She supports cutting cords, removing any implants, attachments, trauma cording, or any programming that is ready to go. Cutting through dense energy is necessary and helps you uproot emotions that have been dormant and suppressed. She believes that every individual possesses a wellspring of intuition, and her role is to empower you to access that innate wisdom and become your own medicine. As a servant in her soul style, she is dedicated to serving your highest good working with all of your 12 bodies, and allowing the Rays of light to come through a gentle cleansing of your 12 bodies and clearing karma. Direct, sassy, and fun, she is committed to cutting through illusions and presenting you with the unfiltered truth. With her Coaching skills and leadership qualities, she will guide you and serve as a way-shower on your path – a grit and grind girl who will also help you flow with the energy of the divine feminine healing and attract what your soul needs. Her personality embodies authenticity and humor, creating a nurturing and supportive environment for your spiritual growth. What sets her apart are her unique insights and her deep ability to hold sacred space by integrating spirituality into our three-dimensional lives while lifting our consciousness. Joann is passionate about helping others weave their spiritual journeys into their everyday existence. With her keen self-awareness, strong intuition, and servant leadership skills, she can relate on profound levels with all people, at any age, and every religion and every ethnic background. Her ancient wisdom of healing can uproot many traumas that we suppress from childhood all too often causing physical /mental manifestation of pain. She shows you ways to unfold everyday life, as opposed to resisting it. She carries the energy to support you to move your consciousness to the next level as she has. During her sessions, you can expect a professional and nurturing atmosphere. Her goal is to help you uncover your truths, overcome obstacles, and embrace your highest potential. She will help you extract, and clear away energy in the way of living your highest potential, along with mother love guidance to light the way. Together, you will clear the old and will create a life filled with purpose, alignment, and joy. The Integrative Conscious Vibe Center is where you get to open up your consciousness and heal on profound levels. Joann does not solve your problems. She will hold the energy so she can dissolve the root of where it all started in the first place. She will support the process of bringing it to consciousness. Working with her will facilitate you bringing your power back and living a life where you are conscious and aware of your vibe and can self-express profoundly. A place where you and only you can integrate your mind, body, and spirit. A place where spiritual tools are available and practical for real-life living. Taking responsibility for your actions, and admitting you could have done better takes calm courage. Facing your fears takes calm courage and facing your inner shadows takes calm courage. Speaking up for what you need in relationships, raising a family in the modern-day world, losing your job and starting a new one, and everything else thrown on your path takes great courage. Thank yourself for having the guts to forge forward and make a change. For change to happen, it takes the foundation of life to fall as we have known it. To break apart, crumble, and fall so that a new one can be built. Are you willing to move from victim consciousness to states of awakened consciousness? We bring practicality back to anchor here into your real life of everyday living. As we all know, anything worth having is going to take work. There are 2 things you have to be willing to do; Be willing to change old behaviors and ways of living, and have enough “fire” left inside of you that you are ready to take action and create those changes and anchor them. We are going to "have to feel" to heal those places that we have repressed and suppressed and have found them to be "a bother" to deal with. It takes the process to deepen awareness, and transform energy in the areas; of relationships, occupation, love, self-forgiveness, and others, and help us shift into different consciousnesses. A place where you are conscious and aware of the mind and notice where the stories are coming from that are dragging you down. Becoming more aware of ancestral drama carried down from generation to generation. The strength and courage to heal the heart of all of the repressed guilt, grief, bitterness, and resentment that has piled up through the years. How many times do we procrastinate and put our needs last on the list or expect others to meet our needs without communicating them? We expect people to know what we need and then to make matters worse, we assume. I would say one out of three people are walking around with guilt, grief, suppressed anger, and fear waiting to blow. We walk around either in a beautiful state or a suffering state and think this is "just life". We give our power away far too many times without even noticing we have a choice in the matter. We get dressed up, buy an expensive car, sign a new record label, take a new job, get a new boyfriend, and think, “Now, I will be happy." Some of us also have multiple partners and are still yet not satisfied. Certainly, no judgment, as everyone has the freedom to live as they do. We sign up for a new self-help course, purchase a new diet plan, and sign on with a new coach only to find ourselves back to step one again. That I mean, in a suffering state. The reality is, we have not integrated our consciousness with our mind, body, and spirit. We have not taken a deeper look at where the stories started from within the roots inside of us and where we have yet to embrace and love those parts into wholeness. Where are you pulling your stories from anyway? Or are you still running like an 8-year-old? Are you even conscious that you are running? Or has it repressed deep into your subconscious, that you don’t even know you’re doing it? We have settled again and again. We have not taken the time to uproot belief systems and create a calm connection with others and life where love overrides fear. Integrative Therapies can bring you to this path, and it is going to work on your end. Through a series of thought-provoking conversations, you will begin to tap into your higher wisdom and rekindle what matters to you. The process will give you permission to explore and pull emotional roots that have been buried down inside causing you to replay patterns in your subconscious. I hope this will inspire you to unzip your fears and get into your heart. Open up to offerings: The Unguarded Heart-A U-turn back to you. This Coaching group is for anyone who has a guarded heart and can’t seem to shake or unhook themselves from pain cords or upsets from the past. Practical Process for breaking belief systems, behaviors, and ancestral clearing, 1:1 Diving deep with masculine and feminine energy in the heart as well. This course is for anyone who had experiences that left them with a heart that is bitter and angry. You get 13 weeks of healing, and heart activations and processes to work through. People have an opportunity to realign with their soul path, new tribe of friends, and new soul love. It's all about the U-turn back to SELF care and SELF love. Energy Clearing clears old stagnant energy, clears old cords/trauma bonds, and helps the client open to the new. Deep Soul Healing/Integration-conventional approaches to energetic releasing in the 12 bodies will support the client in attracting new energy into their life. We also work with belief systems, old patterns, and soul contracts that are complete. Universal Ray Healing Sessions help Trigger the body's natural response within moving energy to open blocks and move forward with clarity. Shifting and awareness into higher levels of Consciousness so they can create with the angels and universal rays. Usui Reiki Healing-Sessions to balance the flow of energy through the body for stress relief and promote relaxation in the body Shadow Work – This work supports the person to take a deep dive into the aspects of themselves that have been in the way of their life path. It's what is in the subconscious with an inner child or a dormant aspect. Soul Retrieval is often done in sessions and healing. The purpose is to bring those aspects to the forefront so they can be seen heard and honored. This helps the person feel integrated and whole. They often feel liberated and free to start a new one. There is a lot of forgiveness for themselves and patterns are acknowledged and released. The dark aspects are integrated with the light for a healthy balance. Soul Integration Coaching is the next step if you are ready to thrive deeper and more liberated. We are nothing like what’s out there because we teach Self-empowerment, Energetic Soul Alignment, Self-sustainability within the mind, body, and spirit, and making it practical. We teach Soul consciousness on a multi-dimensional level. We teach people to be their own medicine as opposed to going outside of themselves to seek medicine. We say, "Be the plant and grow." The Integrative Conscious Vibe Intends to be active in the leader communities and have a school someday with online self-teachable courses and a community where people can also thrive and live. A place where there are food forests, smaller homes, affordable housing and garden food sources, and helpful community leaders supporting change and the rise in consciousness. About the industry and maybe I will get some frowns but, I am going to say it anyway. I would say that humanity needs to stop running from themselves and running towards the things that are “quick fixers”, quick remedies, and quick fixes to medicine retreats every week to every month and skipping the intense work that is needed. It’s only through the processes, integration, and deep contemplation that liberation and consciousness happen. We have to pivot at one point and stop seeking what we need outside of ourselves. Even with working with Joann, she is a stepping stone to start and guide you on your journey, not be with you forever! Testimonials… I had a 15-minute energy alignment with Joann. She is incredible her knowledge and fast abilities in the space of Healing are truly an asset, especially for me to refer my clients to her since I don't work in the energy healing space. I am forever thankful to make this connection and see how much we can help each other in the future! I was not only able to pick her brain about things I have gone through or experienced but felt the energy physically when she did her alignment with me virtually!" – Amanda Swartz Swartz Professional ServicesWilmington, NC I have been working with Joann for energy clearings for a few months now and I truly can feel a shift after our sessions. She’s extremely talented and knowledgeable. She makes me feel safe, heard, and comfortable the entire time. When she conducts the energy healing, I feel that she's able to connect to my soul even through the computer screen which is such an incredible feeling. I will continue to use Joann as my Soul Integrative Coach! So lucky to have her! " – Kendra Weber Kendraweberconsulting@gmail.comSanta Clarita, CA Follow me on Instagram, LinkedIn or visit my website! Read more from Joann Malanga

Written by: Mahima, Executive Contributor Executive Contributors at Brainz Magazine are handpicked and invited to contribute because of their knowledge and valuable insight within their area of expertise. Finding and living your purpose is one of the most important things you can do in life. It gives you a sense of direction, fulfillment and meaning that cannot be found elsewhere. But how exactly do you go about finding your purpose? Here are three things to keep in mind: 1. Purpose is not a destination One of the biggest misconceptions about purpose is that it is something you can find like a treasure at the end of a long journey. In reality, purpose is not a destination but a journey in itself. It is a continuous process of self-discovery and growth that requires consistent effort and patience. Your sense of what purpose is may change as you go through different stages of life, and that is perfectly normal. What matters is that you stay true to your values, talent and passions, and align your actions with your beliefs. When you live your purpose, you feel a sense of vitality and flow that comes from doing what you love and what you are uniquely gifted at. 2. Purpose is not just about yourself Another common misconception about purpose is that it is a purely personal pursuit. However, purpose is not just about fulfilling your own desires and goals; it is also about making a positive impact on others and the world around you. When you live your purpose, you contribute to something greater than yourself – whether it is through your work, your relationships, or your community involvement. Your purpose can inspire and uplift others, and help them discover their own purpose as well. Therefore, it is important to think beyond yourself when you are searching for your purpose. Ask yourself: How can I use my talents and passions to make a difference in the world? What problems or challenges do I feel called to address? By focusing on these questions, you can discover a purpose that is both meaningful and impactful. 3. Purpose requires courage and resilience Finally, it is important to understand that living your purpose is not always easy or comfortable. It requires courage to pursue your dreams and take risks, even when others may doubt or criticize you. It also requires resilience to overcome setbacks and obstacles along the way. Living your purpose may involve stepping outside of your comfort zone, facing your fears, and embracing uncertainty. But the rewards are well worth the effort. When you live your purpose, you feel a sense of aliveness and vitality that cannot be found in a mundane, routine existence. To cultivate courage and resilience, it can be helpful to surround yourself with like-minded individuals who support and encourage you. Seek out mentors, friends, or colleagues who share your values and can offer guidance Follow me on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube and visit my website for more info! Read more from Mahima! Mahima, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine Mahima ‒ Europe’s No 1 Self Mastery Mentor, Mindset Trainer, International Bestselling Author and Award Winning Speaker and Founder of The Mahima Mindset MAHIMA is the first Black Self Mastery Mentor to have spoken at The Harvard Club of Boston in July 2018. In 2017 she got to share the stage with Sir Richard Branson at a business development event in Singapore. She has also had the privilege to share the stage with other thought leaders like Les Brown, Kevin Harrington, Lisa Nichols, Vishen Lakhiani and Kane and Alessia Minkus. Mahima has done over 10 000 hours of meditation practice and to date has helped transform the lives of thousands of people, with her unique teachings.