In this episode Anna is joined by Jess Doyle, a wife, mother and health coach from North Canterbury, New Zealand, whose journey has been anything but linear.

After navigating her own experiences with endometriosis, infertility and pregnancy loss, she found herself searching for more than just answers, she was searching for real support, understanding and a way to truly heal.

What she discovered along the way didn't just change her health, it changed the direction of her life. Jess is now a health coach who supports women with evidence based guidance while also honouring the mental, emotional and deeper layers of their experience.

Connect with Jess and find how to work with her here:

Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/jess.healthcoach

Website- https://www.jesshealthcoach.com/

Connect with Anna here:

Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/anna.vanechten

Website- https://linktr.ee/annavanechten

Disclaimer: This podcast is not intended for medical advice, please use your discernment when listening and do what's best for you. 

In this episode Anna is joined by Jess Doyle, a wife, mother and health coach from North Canterbury, New Zealand, who's journey has been nothing but linear.

After navigating her own experiences with endometriosis, infertility and pregnancy loss, she found herself searching for more than just answers, she was searching for real support, understanding and a way to truly heal.

What she discovered along the way didn't just change her health, it changed the direction of her life. Jess is now a health coach who supports women with evidence based guidance while also honouring the mental, emotional and deeper layers of their experience.

Connect with Jess and find how to work with her here:

Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/jess.healthcoach

Website- https://www.jesshealthcoach.com/

Connect with Anna here:

Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/anna.vanechten

Website- https://linktr.ee/annavanechten

Disclaimer: This podcast is not intended for medical advice, please use your discernment when listening and do what's best for you.

“All of Western medicine is built on getting rid of pain, which is not the same as healing. Healing is actually the capacity to hold pain.”— Dr Gabor Maté.

In this episode, we step into a radically different relationship with pain.

Instead of asking “what’s wrong with me and how do I get rid of this as fast as possible,” we explore a deeper and more healing question:“How can I emotionally hold myself through this?”

We live in a world that rushes to eliminate discomfort, but when we don’t listen to what pain is trying to communicate, it doesn’t disappear. It amplifies, it repeats and it eventually speaks louder through the body, the nervous system and sometimes even illness or diagnosis.

This conversation opens the doorway into capacity. The capacity to feel, to stay present and to allow emotions to move through rather than be suppressed or avoided.

Insights are shared from a World War II observation involving saline being used in place of morphine, where soldiers still reported reduced pain. It raises a fascinating question about the relationship between perception, safety and the experience of pain itself.

We also explore how childhood conditioning shapes our nervous system responses to pain based on what we witnessed growing up. The way pain was handled around us becomes the way we instinctively try to handle it within ourselves.

I also share a process I use with clients to release the emotional charge behind physical or emotional pain. Not by forcing it away, but by first acknowledging it, feeling it and then allowing it to be gently released with understanding and gratitude for what it has taught us.

Pain is not just something to escape. It can be a doorway into deeper wisdom, regulation and self-trust when we have the capacity to stay with it.

Connect with me here: https://linktr.ee/annavanechten

Disclaimer: This episode is not medical advice, use your discernment when listening, take what resonates and leave what doesn't.

In this episode, Anna is joined by Ariana Neame, an intuitive guide from Christchurch, New Zealand, who supports women to reconnect with their inner wisdom and remember who they truly are.

This conversation is a gentle yet powerful invitation to come back into your body, your heart and your soul.

We explore what it really means to feel safe within yourself, how disconnection can show up in everyday life, and the subtle ways your body is always guiding you home.

Ari shares her journey into this work, the deeper layers of embodiment and intuition, and how women can begin to rebuild trust within themselves in a world that often pulls them outward.

This episode is for the woman who feels disconnected, overwhelmed or unsure of her path and is ready to return to herself in a deeper, more honest way.

You’ll walk away feeling grounded, expanded and reminded that everything you’re searching for is already within you.

Connect with Ari here: https://www.instagram.com/ariana_embodiedheartandsoul

Anna's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anna.vanechten

Disclaimer: This episode is not medical advice, use your discernment, take what resonates and leave what doesn't.

In this episode, Anna is joined by mind body coach Sonja Courtis from Christchurch, New Zealand, for a powerful conversation on the body’s innate ability to heal.

Together they explore:

• ​Why your symptoms aren’t random and are signals from your body.
• ​The deeper emotional and energetic patterns behind illness and dis-ease.
• ​The power of somatic healing versus talk therapy alone.
• ​The holistic connection in becoming emotionally available to receive masculine love.
• ​How to shift from believing you’re broken to trusting your body’s wisdom.

This episode is for the woman who’s been told she just has to “live with it.”

The bloating, the pain, the diagnosis and who’s ready to discover a deeper, soul led path to healing.

Connect with Sonja on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/sonjacourtis

Connect with Anna here:

https://linktr.ee/annavanechten

Disclaimer: This is not medical advice, use your discernment when listening and do what’s best for you.

In this honest life update, I open up about my current health journey, the changes in my body since becoming a mum of two and how it’s all woven into my spiritual awakening.

I share the lessons that motherhood and marriage continue to teach me, what it’s really looked like navigating my emotions alongside my children’s and the deeper healing unfolding within it all.

Let's connect: https://linktr.ee/annavanechten

Disclaimer: This is not medical advice, use your discernment when listening and do what’s best for you.

This 45 minute guided meditation invites you to return home to your body, your senses and the quiet wisdom within.

You’ll be gently guided through the six senses of sight, sound, smell, taste, touch and your deep intuitive knowing, to clear the noise, soften your edges and reconnect with the truth that already lives inside you.

This experience is for the woman who’s ready to feel again.

To stop living in her head and start trusting the language of her body.

There is intentionally no music throughout this journey only my voice and the natural sounds around you, so you can awaken your senses more deeply and meet yourself in the stillness.

Find a quiet space, lie down or sit up and allow yourself to be guided back to presence.
The magic is already within you, this is simply your permission to feel it.

You can connect with me here: https://linktr.ee/annavanechten

This is the most raw and unfiltered episode I’ve ever recorded.

No microphone, no setup, just me, my phone and the flood of emotions that needed to move through me.

Rage, grief, tears, frustration and clarity.

I dive into the uncomfortable truth of what happens when we point the finger at others calling them bad, wrong or even evil without realising that the same fear, shame and darkness we condemn also lives inside us.

I explore the beliefs many of us were raised with about God, the devil and spiritual battles, and how that conditioning of fear and shame wrecked havoc on my health and my soul.

This episode also calls forward the way we as parents and as a society, unintentionally suppress our children’s emotions.

When they can’t express themselves or feel truly seen and heard, those trapped emotions turn into sickness and pain only to be masked by another prescription.

Energy doesn’t disappear, it stays until it’s acknowledged and released.

I share my personal journey of untangling the fear and shame rooted in religion, the awakening I’ve been having through Conversations With God audiobook and the invitation for you to look deeply into your own mirror.

This one is raw. It’s messy. It’s medicine.

You can connect with me here: https://linktr.ee/annavanechten

For years I struggled with bloating, pain and the constant fear of how my body would react to food.

Doctors could only offer surface level solutions, but deep down I knew there had to be another way.

In this episode I’m sharing my personal journey of how I healed Irritable Bowel Syndrome from the inside out, through addressing not just my diet and lifestyle, but the deeper emotional and energetic roots that were keeping me stuck.

If you’ve ever felt frustrated, exhausted or hopeless in your own IBS journey, this episode will show you that healing is possible and it starts with connecting back to your body in a whole new way.

You can connect with me further here:

linktr.ee/annavanechten

Disclaimer: This is not medical advice, use your discernment when listening and do what’s best for you.

In this powerful and deeply human episode, I sit down with my dad to explore his story, from growing up disconnected from his Māori roots to finding spiritual meaning, healing from trauma and redefining what it means to be a man.

We talk about his childhood, the moment he truly felt connected to his culture and the messages he received about masculinity, leadership and identity.

He opens up about his experiences with addiction, the lessons he's learned along the way and his transition from a single army soldier to a husband, father and social worker.

This episode is raw, real and rich with wisdom.

It’s a conversation about pain, pride, presence, forgiveness and what he would say to the boy he used to be.

Content Warning:

This episode contains discussion of addiction, sexual abuse, violence, self-harm and pornography.

Please take care while listening.

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