Inner Alchemy

From Stress, Overwhelm & Anxiety to Calm, Clarity & Personal Power
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Are you living in a chronic state of stress, anxiety and overwhelm?

Does your mind races when you’re trying to sleep?  Do you grab your phone in the middle of the night to check on something? Good luck falling asleep after that!

Let me guess – you woke up worrying before the day even began. Then, an unexpected message, stressful meeting or difficult conversation triggers you and sends your thoughts racing toward everything that could go wrong. Now, it feels like your system is a night sky on the 4th of July!

I know you’re handling your responsibilities, showing up for the people who count on you and doing your best to keep everything moving. Yet all the stress and pressure leave you feeling stretched thin, tense and physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausted.

Imagine knowing how to work with yourself when the trifecta of stress, anxiety or overwhelm hits.

Knowing how to calm your body, settle your thoughts, and ground yourself so you can respond rather than react when triggered. Imagine moving through stressful situations with calm and confidence. Take a moment and feel into that possibility.

I can teach you practical tools to alchemize all of the dysregulation, anxiousness and worry into calm, clarity and personal power.

 

Inner Alchemy is a deeply supportive program designed to relieve your stress and anxiety by teaching you effective tools and practices to navigate life’s challenges with greater ease.

Inner Alchemy is for you if…

You’re always “on,” and you can’t remember the last time you truly relaxed.

You want to set boundaries, but you hate conflict. So you say yes, stay quiet or give in, then regret it later.

You know you need rest and self-care, but taking time for yourself makes you feel guilty.

You look calm and capable on the outside while inside you’re working way too hard to hold it all together.

You second-guess your decisions and replay conversations, wondering what you should have said or done differently.

You’re tired of reacting to whatever life throws at you and wish you could feel more in control.

You just want one decent night of sleep!

You want to enjoy your life instead of constantly rushing through it, worrying about it or trying to keep up with it.

You want to trust yourself to know that you can deal with whatever happens.

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Imagine Feeling Calm, Clear and Confident Every Single Day

 

You know how to calm yourself when stress, anxiety or overwhelm hits and which tools work best for you.

You catch worry before it takes over and redirect your thoughts toward the best outcome you can imagine.

You pause when something triggers you and choose your response instead of reacting in the heat of the moment.

You confidently walk into stressful meetings and have difficult conversations feeling grounded and clear.

You set boundaries, share what you need and honor your limits without guilt or second-guessing.

You make time for yourself and your well-being because taking care of yourself becomes non-negotiable.

You finally sleep through the entire night because you know how to soothe your body and calm your mind.

You confidently make decisions and move forward without endlessly questioning whether you got them right.

You slow down to actually enjoy the people, moments and experiences you used to rush past.

And when life throws something unexpected at you, you trust yourself to know, without question, you can deal with it.

Why I Call it Inner Alchemy

I believe we have the ability to meaningfully change our experience of life from within.

That’s the alchemy.

Life will continue to bring uncertainty, challenges, uncomfortable experiences and circumstances that we cannot control. But we can learn how to meet what happens without continually surrendering our internal experience to it.

What do I mean by that?

So much of our stress, anxiety, worry, overwhelm and emotional triggering comes from our conditioned responses, our interpretation of what’s happening and our reflexive reactions to it.

We can learn another way.

We can learn practices that help us move out of worry and reaction, access our calm center and consciously choose how we want to respond. With that choice, we can begin to trust ourselves to know that we can handle what comes next.

Which means calm is about so much more than feeling better.

 

Calm gives us access.

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From that centered place of calm, we have greater access to our wisdom, intuition, creativity, skills, gifts, talents, problem-solving ability and inner power.

No amount of worry or stress is going to make a difficult situation better. But having full access to you can make an extraordinary difference in what happens next.

And I believe that makes all the difference.

When we have access to our inner power, we can intentionally exercise choice. We can contribute to our families, businesses, communities and world in the ways that matter to us. We can live with greater intention, experience more joy and bring more of who we are to the life we’re creating.

We live in a world where anxiety has become an accepted part of everyday life. I want to change that.

We can learn to live in an uncertain world without giving away our power.

I want to help people discover that we can care deeply about what is happening around us and be responsible, engaged human beings while also learning how to experience peace and joy in the midst of it.

As Wayne Dyer taught me, no degree of our feeling bad will ever help someone else feel good.  And when we understand that, we can choose where we place our energy.  I’ve come to understand that our energy is far more powerful when we use it to access our own peace and joy. Because it’s from that place that we have greater access to our gifts, our wisdom and our ability to make the difference we want to make in the world.

That is Inner Alchemy.

This is what I want to teach people.

 

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Inside the Inner Alchemy Program…

 

Inner Alchemy brings together 13 modules filled with teaching, tools, guided experiences, experiential practices, real world examples and my coaching to help you finally take back your power and restore your system to its natural state of calm.

Here’s how we’re going to do it:

Lesson 1: The Power of Intention

We start with the most important step, the spark, the ignition, the compass and the guiding light: Intention.

You’ll explore the extraordinary power of intention and how what you intend in your life is the invitation to achieve it. Intention sets you on a path, magnetizes aligned action, rallies your thoughts, beliefs and emotions, and purposefully draws you forward in determined pursuit.  It will summon forces in you that have been dormant, stuck in automatic pilot of dysregulation.

Setting an intention is the mystical force that will drive your results.

Lesson 2: Creating Your Environment

You’re a product of your surroundings.  We’ll explore how your physical environment, sensory experiences and the people around you impact your life and how you can make intentional changes to create more support.

I’ll take you on a sensory journey through my intentionally curated environment that uses art, nature, scent, sound, lighting, meaningful objects and even a “Curb of Love” to spark your personal exploration to discover what feels nourishing, grounding and empowering to you.

Lesson 3: Breathwork

Your breath is one of the most powerful, accessible and effective tools to calm your system.

I’ll guide you through two simple and powerful breathwork practices and then show you how deepen them by combining sensory experiences and visualization with your breath.

♥ I use these practices and literally watch the stress plummet while I monitor it on my smart watch.

Lesson 4: Acupressure for Calm and Connection

It’s time to learn about the power of touch and moving energy.  Discover three simple acupressure points you can use anywhere to help release stress, anxiety, pressure and tension.

Then, we’ll take the practice deeper by using intention, breathwork, visualization, affirmations and self-care.

It’s time to learn how to give yourself the support you’ve been craving rather than outsourcing it.

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Lesson 5: EFT: Tap Into Calm

One of my go-to tools for whatever life dishes out: Emotional Freedom Technique, commonly called EFT or tapping.  Through tapping on various points on your upper body, you can reduce the severity of, and ultimately eliminate, feelings that hijack your system.

I’ll walk you through the complete tapping process and tap right along with you. You’ll learn how to recognize what you’re feeling, work with specific tapping points and use intentional language to help shift your emotional state.

I’ll share my unique adaptations and teach you how to move beyond following a script to listen to your own body and tap specifically to what you need in the moment.

Lesson 6: Meditation Practice

At the midpoint of the program, this is less about doing and more about connecting and receiving.  I guide you through three meditations tailored to the following themes:

Grounding Meditation helps you connect with your body, the earth and the grounded, centered place within you.

Empowered Boundaries Meditation helps you connect with your inner strength and your power to honor yourself and your boundaries.

Joy and Strength Meditation helps you reconnect with your joy, strength and the parts of yourself you want to experience more fully.

Lesson 7: Grounding: Come Back to Your Center

Buckle up, open up your tool box and get ready to fill it!

I’ll introduce you to a wide variety of grounding practices using your body, senses, movement, environment, nature, creativity, sound, visualization, and energy.

The goal is to help you discover a diversity of tools that work specifically for you to help you find your way back to your center, where calm is inviting you home.

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Lesson 8: The Power of the Pause

This is your “regret prevention tool.” Something happens. Your body reacts. Your mind takes off. Before you know it, you’re angry, anxious, defensive, shutting down, sending the text or saying something you wish you could take back.

The pause creates space between what happened and what you do next.

We’ll combine everything you’ve learned into a practical process to safely and proactively respond to triggers instead of meet them with a knee jerk, can’t-take-it-back reaction.

Lesson 9: The Reframe

The facts are the facts – how you view them matters.   Reframing teaches you how to look at what’s happening in your life through a different lens to discover a more supportive interpretation.

You’ll practice catching the assumptions, expectations and stories that you tell yourself that contribute to your stress and learn how to change your interpretation to choose a  new perspective or possibility that more fully supports you.

Lesson 10: Active Imagination

Through imagery, inner dialogue and your own intuitive knowing, I’ll guide you through ways to become curious about what your body, emotions and inner world may be trying to communicate with you.

It’s a powerful practice for moving beyond an immediate reaction, listening more deeply to yourself, discovering hidden needs or messages and how to address them.

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Lesson 11: Boundaries

Boundaries are an honoring tool – they honor you and what you deem most important in your life.

We’ll explore different kinds of boundaries, how to communicate them (or not), when action may speak louder than words and how to navigate your fear of someone’s reaction to your boundaries.

I’ll also share some deeply personal experiences with boundaries from my own life and show you how the tools you’ve already learned can help you stay grounded, clear and connected to yourself when a boundary feels difficult.

Lesson 12: Self-Care: Honor and Support Yourself

It’s time to get honest about the importance of self-care and finally let go of the guilt and procrastination to take care of yourself.

Rather than following someone else’s definition of self-care, you’ll identify what genuinely nourishes, supports and energizes you so you can choose intentional ways to bring more of it into your life.

You’ll also create your own Empowerment Kit, a personal collection of people, practices, experiences and reminders you can reach for when you need support.

And, a client favorite, you’ll compile your Badass Inventory. This is an invitation to recognize and celebrate your strengths, gifts, accomplishments, resilience, creativity, talents, quirks and all the things that make you wonderfully and unmistakably you.

Lesson 13: From Practice to Embodiment

The moment arrives: This is where everything you’ve learned comes together and you move from practicing the tools to access calm to living in a calm state.

You begin to embody what you’ve practiced on repeat.

You’ll look back at the tools you’ve experienced throughout Inner Alchemy, identify the tools and processes that work best for you and shift to what’s possible from here.

Why Inner Alchemy Works

It’s Created for the Ways You Learn Best

Whether you learn by watching a training, seeing a practice demonstrated, absorbing information by listening, or reading, highlighting, taking notes or by participating by doing the practices, Inner Alchemy gives you all of these learning methods.

Throughout the 13 lessons, you’ll find:

6 video trainings where Joan teaches, demonstrates and coaches you through the practices.

2 additional videos from Joan to kick off and wrap up the journey.

3 guided meditations to listen to a deeply sensory experience.

3 audio coaching lessons to listen as you explore some of the deeper work.

Written coaching, including teaching, real-life examples, reflection questions and ways to explore.

Lesson Transcripts you can download to read, notate, highlight the training.

Resources, worksheets and visual guides, including reference material for the acupressure and EFT tapping points, worksheets, affirmations, journal prompts and reflection tools.

Experiential practices and exercises that encourage you to do them as Joan demos them (then keep practicing them).

Results You Can Expect

When you commit to yourself, here’s what life starts to look like when you implement the Program’s tools and teaching:

✅ Your nervous system settles.
Stress no longer runs the show. You breathe deeper. You sleep better. You stop jumping at every demand or expectation.

✅ You begin each day with intention in a supportive environment.
You check in with yourself before checking your phone. Your environment and inner circle wrap you up in just the support you need. You move with focus, not frenzy. Your energy becomes a conscious choice, not a reaction.

✅ You set boundaries without spiraling.
You say no with clarity. You stop explaining. You protect your time without guilt. People respect your limits because you do first.

✅ You start feeling like a new you.
The fog lifts. You can breathe. You can choose. You’re back in charge of your own experience and start to remember what joy feels like.

✅ You create practices that actually support you.
You have go-to breathwork and acupressure practices that provide instant zen.  Reframe is the name of the game – no old stories get by you! Real self care? On the calendar weekly!

✅ You respond instead of react.
Triggers don’t send you spiraling. You pause. You regulate. You choose your next move from a place of calm, clarity and badassery (guess who did the Badass Inventory?!).

✅ You move through life with calm, clarity, and personal power.
You’re no longer ruled by stress, ready to fight or flight or stuck in survival mode. You know what to do, how to do it, and you just do it!

 

This is the Inner Alchemy shift.

What Makes The Inner Alchemy Program Different?

 

I built this program from what I know works.  I’ve lived it over the course of a lifetime. For 30 years, I’ve coached, counseled and advised thousands of entrepreneurs through stress, anxiety, burnout, devastating life curveballs, destruction and do-overs, and rebuilding life and business from the ground up. I’ve made it through my fair share of fires, always rising stronger on the other side. This program is how we did it.

Each of us is unique. A resource, tool or practice that works beautifully for one person, or one situation, may feel completely foreign to, or in, another.

The Program not only provides you with an expansive variety, it shows you how to modify, combine, mix and match practices to work for your beautifully unique personality and needs.

This is a curated framework rooted in body, mind and energy that requires practice to achieve the desired results. It requires your wholehearted participation and practice and it will reward your efforts with the outcome you intended.

The program supports different learning styles — written, audio, video, and experiential exercises.

Importantly, you don’t have to overhaul your overflowing calendar to make the most out of the Program. I give you tools that easily integrate into your daily life.

Outcomes are achievable, lasting, and deeply personal.

 

 

 

“You don’t change your life by chasing results. You change it by becoming the version of you who knows how to create them.”

~ Joan Jakel

Ready to start?

Join today for just $297 or

2 payments of $148.50

 

I get it. Your budget matters and I want to work with you to make this program as accessible as possible.

You have options. 

You can pay in full or make 2 payments, half today and the other half next month.

With either option, upon full payment or partial payment, you receive immediate access to the entire Inner Alchemy Program

 Here’s how to Join Now!

Click the Buy Now button below and you will be taken to a secure checkout page. On the checkout page, you can select the pay in full option or the payment option.

Once you complete your purchase, you’ll gain instant access to the entire program.

It’s that easy!

 

If you have questions, check the FAQs below.

Need personal help? Click HERE to contact me — I’ve got you.

I look forward to seeing you inside the program!

Coach Joan

 

Frequently Asked Questions

Answers to your questions…

How do I access the program?

Once you click the Buy Now button, you will be taken to a secure checkout page to purchase the program.  Once you complete payment, you will be provided access to the entire program.   

How do I pay for the Program?

You can pay for the Program by clicking the “Buy Now” button which will take you to a secure checkout where you can complete the purchase using a credit card.

How long does the program take?

The Inner Alchemy Program is self-paced, allowing you to work through it on your own time. You have lifetime access so you can return to it as often as you’d like.

What if I have questions while working through the program?

The Program’s Overview Page and Welcome Page provides a wealth of information. There’s also a “Frequently Asked Questions” section on the Welcome page.  If you can’t find the answer in those places, there’s a link to email your question to me.   

Is there live coaching with this program?

No, there is no live coaching, group coaching or coaching calls with this program. If you are looking for personalized, individual coaching, you can check out my Coaching Programs by clicking here: Joan’s Coaching Programs

Does Joan offer other coaching programs? YES!

Joan has a variety of coaching programs, Mindset Alchemy and the Clarity Compass if you want additional support and guidance.  You can check out these programs here: Joan’s Coaching Programs

Do I need any prior experience?

Not at all! This program is designed for beginners and seasoned self-improvement enthusiasts alike.

Is this program right for me?

If you’re ready to prioritize your well-being, create meaningful change, and embrace a calmer, more resilient life, this Program is for you.

Is there a refund policy for this program?

Because this is a digital, self-paced program, you’ll receive full access to all materials immediately upon purchase.  While I’ve poured my best coaching practices into this program, the results come from your commitment to follow the process and engage with all of the materials. Since I do not have any control over how you choose to participate, I do not offer refunds. Your growth is in your hands, and this program is here to support you every step of the way. Please use it to the fullest to get the results you desire.

Why work with Me?

I get results.

I have a proven track record.  For 29 years, I’ve coached entrepreneurs to develop the mindset, create the structures, learn the skills and up-level their tools to design a life and business that exceeds their expectations.

Diverse Experience

I am a personal development, empowerment and mindset coach, a retired business attorney, a serial entrepreneur, an artist, a student of life, a dream chaser (and catcher), a believer in big, hairy audacious goals and a legend maker.

Extensive Training

I’ve invested countless hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars in training and education over several decades to learn cutting edge processes and continually evolving resources. Each coaching program was thoughtfully designed to comprehensively package a lifetime of learning to help you create breakthrough results.

Supportive Environment

I create a safe, nourishing, judgment-free environment to give you full permission and safety to show up and be real (and messy).  I provide compassionate yet no BS support that gives you permission to be honest, vulnerable and, did I mention, messy.

I don’t just teach transformation — I’ve lived it.

 

For nearly three decades, I’ve coached entrepreneurs to develop the mindset, tools, and structure to build lives and businesses beyond their wildest expectations.

✅ Diverse Experience

I’m a personal development and empowerment coach, retired business attorney, serial entrepreneur, artist, dream chaser, and legend maker. My work blends mindset, strategy, intuition, creativity, and soul — because real change demands all of it.

✅ Extensive Training

I’ve invested decades and six figures in the most powerful coaching, mindset, business, legal and transformational education available, and I continue to evolve my tools. Every program I offer is a finely-tuned culmination of this lifetime of learning, designed to help you create real, lasting results.

✅ A Supportive, Nurturing Environment

I create a safe, nonjudgmental space where you can show up fully — even in the mess. I hold space with compassion and directness, giving you permission to be vulnerable, honest, and real.

✅ I’ve Walked Through the Fire and I Bring That Wisdom With Me

I’ve navigated soul-crushing heartbreak, career pivots, creative rebirths, identity reinventions, and more cross-country moves than I can count — all in service of creating a life aligned with purpose, truth, and adventure.

From putting myself through law school…
To leading legal teams…
To opening my own firm…
To becoming an artist with a Napa River studio…
To guiding retreats, teaching intentional creativity, and now coaching from the intersection of mindset, empowerment, and personal transformation…

I’ve built a body of work rooted in experience.
And now it’s your turn.

Because of this path, I’ve created powerful, results-driven programs to help you design a life you love — on your terms.

 

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