Check Out Kerri-Ann Appleton’s Story

Today we’d like to introduce you to Kerri-Ann Appleton.

Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
My journey started in the Fall of 2006 when my boss found me under the water fountain at work having a panic attack. It was uncomfortable to feel that deep state of fear, overwhelm, and not truly understanding where it was coming from. This started my adventure down the rabbit hole to look at what was truly happening within me. To the outside world I had it all, so why did I feel trapped by a deep state of fear?

I started practicing meditation, learning about the brain, and getting into manifestation. These provided great results and the panic attacks stopped. But in 2013 I woke up in a hotel on the equator in Brazil grieving. I had no idea where this deep sadness was coming from. This took me down another rabbit hole of studying emotions, yoga, Reiki, and epigenetics. “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” Rang true for me as a beautiful mentor presented and I began to learn about conscious living.

Then in 2016, I took seven women into the mountains of Rio de Janeiro on a journey of self-discovering. It was a powerful weekend and I knew I wanted to do more of this type of work. So I jumped ship from a 15-year career in nonprofits and stepped into the world of coaching. Then in 2019 both my partner and business coach betrayed me… it was devastating and the panic attacks returned. I had all the tools and skills to navigate the surface-level (symptoms) events with more ease but still hadn’t cracked the root cause. I started to reverse engineer what was showing up in my outer world to see where I was creating my reality from my inner world.

Once I began to understand how I was unconsciously creating my life, living by how my conditioned self was seeing and being in the world and understanding the limitations I was living by… then things started to change. I built upon this awareness and created a dedicated practice of shifting my perspective which shifted my energy. I have let go of so much to gain the freedom, ease, and abundance I have today. Now I guide others to transcend their reality through my curated process.

Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
It was not a smooth road and in those moments it felt like the worst thing ever. Now looking back, those events helped me see where I was living by my perceiving self. It was there to show me the patterns of my limiting beliefs. A few notable things are:

* I went into a huge amount of debt, maxing out credit cards trying to get the business off the ground.

* I started losing function on the right side of my body, including losing the ability to write with my right hand.

* Being betrayed by my business coach and partner at the same time led me to doubt my abilities and even what was reality… what was true.

* Having to work through my deep insecurities and inadequacies.

Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe you can tell us more about your work next?
I call myself the Energy Alchemist because I guide people through a journey of understanding their false narrative and support them in letting it go. As humans, we all create false narratives. We either create adaptive behaviors because we believe the narrative to be real or we create maladaptive behaviors to try to prove it wrong. It is a no-win situation either way. Our false narratives form our thoughts, feelings, actions, habits, and behaviors which create our personality. This creates our personal reality.

Some people try to change their habits or behaviors – which is great but if you don’t address the false narrative you will be constantly pushing and needing to do more. Even trying to change your thoughts and feelings is like swimming upstream. When you identify the root cause and pull it out, your thoughts, feelings, actions, habits, and behaviors change. Which changes your personality and personal reality. You transcend your reality.

Using myself as an example: One of my false narratives was “I don’t matter.” This stems from my parent’s divorce and my dad leaving when I was a child. My interpretation of that event and the pain I felt as a child was that I don’t matter. I unconsciously didn’t want to feel that way again so I created maladaptive behaviors and compensatory strategies to matter.

I become an overachiever, perfectionist, workaholic, and people pleaser so that I mattered. I received recognition after recognition and burned myself out over and over again. And the minute that something happened that jeopardized my mattering (aka the betrayals) I would panic. Once I let go of the narrative of “I don’t matter” everything changed.

What sort of changes are you expecting over the next 5-10 years?
We are already seeing a massive shift transpiring in this industry, especially during the pandemic. We saw a huge increase in people wanting to do this deeply personal work. I think that is evidence thaththere will be more growth in the next 5 to 10 years. But I can’t predict the future and I practice not projecting what will be based on what was. I certainly prefer that more people engage with this work and that it be accessible.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.kerri-ann.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bedivineandworthy/
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerri-ann-appleton-245a6a6/

Image Credits
AF Lee