Joan Advent’s journey has taken her from addiction, sexual trauma, spiritual abuse, and poverty consciousness to the safety and freedom of true self-understanding and expression. Her thirty-year career helping clients to do the same draws upon multiple maps, lineages, schools of thought and traditions.

She has worked as a licensed clinical social worker and now, as a spiritual and transformational guide. Her training has included child and family counseling, personal empowerment, addiction and the family, co-dependency and self-betrayal resolution, spiritual and psychic development, ancestral and inter-generational healing, somatic and embodiment modalities, leadership development and prosperity healing.

What I loved most about our conversation and about Joan is her clarity. She’s able to thread all this deep understanding through the fabric of her own life’s story and to share it so vulnerably and generously so that we can understand better the folds of our own stories. I learned so much about myself in this conversation!

When mentioning her new focus on exploring her own desire, Joan mentioned these beautiful opening lines of Mary Oliver’s poem Wild Geese:

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.

You can find Joan and her work here:

joanadvent.com

​YouTube: @joanadvent7171

Instagram: @joanadvent

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