Here’s a bit about me & my journey:

(Scroll down for my professional bio)

I was once a woman terrified to feel. Even though I had many people in my life, I felt alone and disconnected from myself and others. The truth is I didn’t know to receive love and I didn’t feel worthy. All of this caused me to live a life that looked good on paper but felt hollow on the inside. Even though I almost always smiled and acted chipper, the truth is I felt numb, lonely, and apathetic about life.

Having come from a background of deep childhood trauma (emotional abuse, physical abuse, and abandonment) I learned that it wasn’t safe to talk, trust or feel. I shut down my emotions and focused my attention on being the perfect child: spending my free time reading and studying, achieving perfect grades, and obsessively cleaning my room. As I grew older began to spend more and more time away from home participating in any extra curricular that I could and spending many nights at friend’s houses. I didn’t know it then but these were all coping strategies that I used to get away not only from the constant threat I faced at home, but also to get away from my own feelings.

The pattern of filling my days continued into early adulthood where I used work, people, sex, and even spirituality as a distraction. I worked 12-16 hour days, I filled my social calendar to the brink, and I, feeling ugly and unworthy of love, was constantly dating any man who gave me attention. I also read countless spiritual books, attended lectures and did yoga incessantly. But no matter how successful or busy I was or how many people were in my world or how much I learned I always felt lonely and dissatisfied. Underneath the busyness there was a longing for more - I wanted purpose, I wanted deeper connections, community and true love, but I felt not good enough to have any of that so I kept my desires buried and went deeper into my distractions to try to push these feelings down.

In my mid 20’s everything caught up with me. The strategies I’d been using to distract no longer worked and I found myself suffering from a myriad of chronic health issues. I knew there was a deeper reason for what I was experiencing but I sought countless practitioners and supplements to help me feel better. It worked temporarily but the pain and discomfort always came back. That was until one day I got into a terrible bike accident that impacted my ability to walk. I couldn’t leave the house, I couldn’t have sex, I couldn’t avoid myself any longer — I had no choice but to turn inward and face all that I’d been avoiding. In this period of time it became apparent to me that I was unhappy and that the way I was living needed a change.

Thankfully, right around this time I found somatic work, desire-based coaching, and plant medicine ceremonies. As I explored these tools many things in me woke up. Buried feelings came to the surface for clearing and healing — as old pain released pleasure started to unlock as well. I went from numb to feeling alive! My true desires came alive as well — I became aware of my desire for a career with a deeper purpose (fashion photography just wasn’t cutting it anymore) and my desire to not just have people around but to actually feel connected in relationship and in community. I wanted to feel seen and truly known.

All of my newfound awareness lead to a transformation of who I was and how I lived. I became more vulnerable, I started to express my heart and my truth, my needs, my yes and my no. I began to actually let people in to see the real me rather than only presenting the “perfect” facade that I thought would be acceptable and in the process I developed real sisterhood,  community, healthy relationships with men, and most all a healthy relationship with myself. I finally knew who I really was, I finally felt safe to be me, I finally felt worthy of living a life aligned with my heart and sou'l’s deepest desires.

Through all this I found my purpose. I left photography and began to guide others in reconnecting with themselves, teaching them to heal, feel, and love themselves, express their heart’s truth and carry out their soul’s desires just as I had learned to do. Eventually, following the voice of my desire, I left NYC and moved to Mexico - there I met one of my dearest teachers, developed incredible community, and met my soulmate.

I feel truly grateful for my path that lead me here and the wonderful soul-work of unraveling, remembering, and becoming who we are meant to be. I believe this is the reason we are all here - to discover our true selves and to live a life in alignment with our deepest truth, our heart and soul.

Professional Bio:

Janira Martinez is a Somatic Desire & Soul Coach & Plant Medicine Guide on a mission to empower women to heal the trauma that holds them back, remember their inherent worth, and receive the love and life that their souls came here to experience.

Through her unique blend of somatic coaching, spirit guidance, fierce truth, and unwavering compassion, Janira creates a powerful environment for transformation. Women finally experience the relief of getting out of their head and into their bodies, go from feeling sick and stuck to energized and flowing, and trade lives full of fear and unworthiness for lives full of freedom and confident self-worth!

Working with Janira is a soul-deep experience. For the woman who is ready to free her true self, have incredible relationships, live her purpose, and feel fully alive this work is nothing short of extraordinary.

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN working WITH JANIRA?

CLICK HERE TO BEGIN THE JOURNEY

The time is now.