Awaken Through Grief
A sacred space for women journeying through the wild & messy process of awakening through loss & grief.
I’m on a mission
To change the ideas we have about how to walk through loss and grief, and what is means to live a sacred and devotional life while we’re here.
Hello Love. I’m That Mystic, Joya.
I teach the Luminous Path Through Grief because I am being resurrected by it.
My life has been a series of initiations: trauma upon trauma, loss upon loss, the kind of suffering that either destroys you or transforms you into something holy.
I chose transformation. Every. Single. Time. Well, at the level of consciousness I was at anyway. I have been all things unholy in my life.
But for 33 years, I gathered tools without knowing why: devotional practice, sound healing, somatic wisdom, mystical study. I was being prepared for the work I couldn't yet see.
And then, in February 2025, everything burned. Profound loss reduced me to ash when my beloved son passed away in a car accident.
But phoenixes don't die. They become.
In the fire of my own grief, I was given by The Magdalene Lineage and Weston from the other side, a framework - a complete system for awakening through loss, rooted in ancient mysticism and modern science. Four pillars. Nine thresholds. Embodied practices that make resurrection, transformation and transfiguration real, and permanent.
I am about to start teaching what is saving me. I am walking what is remaking me. I am the living proof that grief is not the end. It is a becoming - and you, co-creating with The Divine, can have a say in what that becoming is.
I am a spiritual director, speaker and author of the forthcoming book: Awaken Through Grief: The Luminous Path from Loss to Liberation
“The only thing left to heal is your belief
that there is anything left to heal.”
-A DIVINE DOWNLOAD RECEIVED AT THE TEMPLE OF DENERA, EGYPT