Joanna Walden Living your best life

Interview and Article MICHELLE R PRICE

Multidimensional Healer, Joanna Walden, is living her best life after doing what could only be described as a complete about-turn.

The New Zealand-based Consciousness Consultant and Transformation Coach has led two very different lives, packing in a wealth of knowledge.

Born to a mum who is in touch with her spiritual side and a dad with a background in advertising, Joanna found herself somewhere in between the two.

Despite desperately wanting to pursue a career in spiritual development, Joanna admits she didn’t think she could make a living by pursuing that further. She found herself completing a Business Degree and working in advertising in New York City at the age of 23. She arrived in the United States a short time after the 9/11 terror attacks and admits she felt like she had a, “Very different consciousness understanding of that event and that we all created it with our consciousness.

“I was really called to disengage from all the drama and the blame and all of that.”

She went on, “The advertising game was amazing, New York was incredible, but I was very much a walking contradiction. So I was the party girl living the high life but then on the weekends I was running off to do Doreen Virtue’s Power Animal and Angel Retreat in Upstate New York.”

Joanna admits she was doing a lot of spiritual stuff in secret including supporting the raw food movement in its early days. She said she was becoming aware that there was something missing in her life. She wanted to be, “Passionate about the work I was doing, I wanted to get paid for doing something I love and feel really positive about… if we have to work for the rest of our lives, I want it to be doing something meaningful, something I’m passionate about and I was determined to figure out what that was.”

Joanna embarked on a spiritual journey to discover what that might be. She decided to shift from New York to London after six years. On her way to the UK she read Shirley MacLaine’s The Camino, which sparked a desire in her to do her own pilgrimage trek. She admits her journey to enlightenment was a tad comical. Her enlightening experiences turned out to be completely the opposite. “So I’d have the whole church and a sacred moment to myself… and all of a sudden someone would come in and they’d be farting the whole time,” she joked.

As part of her journey she travelled to many magical locations, getting a whole host of downloads but getting frustrated with her progress at the same time. Joanna became aware that she was starting to pick up on light codes. She stressed that sometimes we just have to get out of our own way, “Keeps us small, keeps us limited, doesn’t really allow us to open and blossom into this beautiful multi-dimensional being that we are.

“I was in the energy of searching… so when we’re in the energy of searching you cannot embody the answer or the solution… you’re never going to get what you want,” she said.

Joanna also admits she had big expectations, “I wanted to be seeing the guides, hearing their names, like I wanted the construct that was being delivered by everyone else to me.” She said she just didn’t feel like other people’s healing techniques or modalities resonated with her. She trained as a Kinesiologist but realised she didn’t want to do that for a living. She now knows that was part of her setting up the foundations of what she would one day be doing.

When Joanna’s Grandmother died, she received some money. She checked out a few potential flats to buy in London but admits that didn’t feel like it would bring her any joy. Instead she travelled to South America to search for ideas for her book she was writing. There she met an 83-year-old Shaman on her birthday. She ended up staying with him in his hacienda for a week. The old man didn’t speak any English and Joanna didn’t speak much Spanish, but his words were recorded and eventually translated. He mentioned something about her role in consciousness. Hearing that, Joanna recalled an instance when she was in her late teens in New Zealand. She was going to pick up some friends from a bar. After walking inside, she saw a couple of guys sitting at the end of the bar. She felt strangely compelled to speak to them so asked them for a light for her cigarette. Then one of the men said he’d been waiting for her to talk to them before launching into a dialogue about, “What I was here to do on this planet… I don’t even remember details, but I remember being so high with this energy.

“I was off to a dance party that night with my friends and I was dancing all night,” she recalls, being so elated that someone felt like she had a purpose on this planet. It’s something she had always felt deep inside, but it meant something when it was articulated by someone else.

After her trip to South America, her dad became ill and died and then she finished writing her book. She inserted her channelled wisdom into this book, which she said has its own energy. She had been wanting the book to come out for a while, but it was released during COVID. She realised it was divine timing.

Joanna describes her book, ‘The Inside Hustle’, as “Bridget Jones meets Eat, Pray, Love on steroids. There’s more sex, more drugs, there’s more crazy spiritual experiences,” she said. She’s added her own down-to-earth perspective.

Right now, she’s experiencing many downloads and an upgraded state of being. She’s been preparing over the past few months by cleansing. Joanna stresses it’s important to let go and allow it all to flow, saying we can’t force anything to happen or speed up the process. She has also learnt about something known as ‘heart intelligence’. In 2017, Joanna had a dream where she was speaking to three light beings. Joanna was suggesting various healing and meditation techniques to them, all of which were rejected by the beings. “They said, it is always about the heart, it only ever was about the heart, and it only ever will be about the heart. Heart technology is all you need.” Nowadays she said more people are talking about the benefits of tapping into the heart.

Joanna Walden is a visionary, multi-dimensional transformation specialist, speaker and author of The Inside Hustle. A Mystical Misfi t’s Travel Adventure into the Unknown. Joanna uses heart technology, travel to sacred sites, channelled wisdom, consciousness practices, ancient gong and sound healing to navigate her path and guide others back to their mastery. www.joannawalden.com