About My Journey

Into High School, I started turning a new leaf, no longer wanting to live up to the name “mean.” I was kinder, more gentle. It was at this time that I attracted my first love. I danced in and out of love with this boy for 3 years. We mutually stripped each other down. Toxicity and pain from the past coursing through our romance. Outburst arguments, mean words, large emotions. Only to be followed by the sweetest love for what we knew at the time, deepest feelings, tender connection. Up & Down, Up & Down.. True Teenage Turmoil.

In 2017, after our 100th break up, I entered into my first year of college at the University of Arkansas, studying Event Management in Hospitality with a focus on Logistics- soon to be graduating with a BS in Human Environmental Sciences.

College came with a lot of drinking, eating fast food, staying up late, sleeping in later. Pressure, pressure, pressure in a way I had never experienced. I was miserable. I was treating my body like trash, and speaking to myself like I was. Coming off the back end of a toxic relationship, I was a shell of a human. I didn’t know the first thing about who I was. I was negative, self-conscious, angry, uptight, and overweight. It wasn’t until the spring before my Sophomore year that I had a melt-down. I looked in the mirror and didn’t recognize the person looking back at me. I was devastated and ready to make a change. 

My change didn’t happen overnight. Not even that year. My change started slowly, going unnoticed by myself and those around me. A little exercise here, more water & nourishing foods there. Then my health and exercise started gaining momentum. By my Junior year I had found a rhythm, although it was not the healthiest rhythm. I was eating WAY less, and running way more. Dieting and binge eating on and off. A vicious cycle that I had fallen into, but it kept me looking the way I wanted so I didn’t see the harm. Until the year 2020 when the pandemic hit. I had experienced such a massive binge eating episode and was in IMMENSE pain. My stomach was so bloated. I knew something wasn’t right with the way I had been dieting for years. I laid in my shower and sobbed. Begging for a solution. I think this is the first time I had returned to prayer since my childhood.

The next day a podcast fell into my lap from the heavens above. It was called “Food Psych” by Christy Harrison. She spoke about something called “Intuitive Eating” next thing I knew I was down this rabbit hole path. Another book dropped in my lap by Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch called “Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program That Works”  I took a deep dive into this work. It was at this time that I started a regular yoga practice. Funny how they coincided. I started my intuitive eating journey, listening deeply to what my body needed from moment to moment. This was a massive catalyst for my change.

After graduating college, I immediately got a corporate job. I was the right hand woman to a start-up company in Dallas. I was working endless hours, driving for sometimes 8 hours a day, all while running the back end of the company, managing 12+ employees. Honestly, it was a blast. It allowed me the freedom to make money as a new graduate, travel when I wanted, although I was always on call. I would eat, sleep, and breathe this job. After a few short months the burnout started creeping in. I was drinking coffee daily just to survive. My meals consisted of Cheezits, wraps from Starbucks, and Whataburger on the road. But when I was home, I was able to nourish myself so deeply. I saw the complete duality of it all. I took a trip to Utah that completely changed the trajectory of my life. I traveled to visit a friend and had a lot of alone time while there to explore the mountains. I returned back to Texas with a lump in my throat, crying to my father in the airport “I don’t think I am meant to stay in Texas.”

One thing led to another and within a few months I had quit my corporate job and booked a yoga retreat and a 3-month solo backpacking trip through Peru. Returning from Peru I recalled this dream I had to travel through Europe. So that is what I did next. Working in between travels to save the money for freedom.  

Through my travels I learned about flowing with universal energies. There was no room to force, travel comes with a lot of need to surrender to each day. I was in my feminine energy for what felt like 7 months straight. I was free, I was fluid. Around this fluidity lived the energy of masculine structure, which is what allowed my feminine to flow so freely. The masculine created the container, the feminine flowed throughout it. For 7 months straight I danced in Divine Union with myself.

I returned to the states in November of 2022. Shortly thereafter I moved to live in a condo outside of Tampa, FL while I figured out my next move. 

Enter the hardest year of my life.

The previous year of travel had allowed me to experience myself and the world in a way that I never had before. Upon returning, a lot came to the surface that I didn’t know was there. I started into a very deep healing journey in January and it continued to deepen and thicken over the course of 10 months. I lived alone, and the only community I had was 30 minutes away. I was met with myself over and over and over again. I was met with the anxiety that I had lived with my whole life. I was met with my deepest fears. I was met with the deepest truths about my past. It was me, inside of myself for months. I felt like no one understood what I was going through. I didn’t even understand what I was going through. I felt like I was dying. I did die, to different versions of myself many times. I died to who I thought I was. I died to what I thought I wanted. Some people would call these Ego Deaths, others would call it depression. I didn’t know what to call it, all I knew is that it didn’t stop. Just when I thought I was seeing the light again, I would get sucked back down into the darkness. Into another story, into another uncovering of truth, into myself.

During this time I was reading books about healing and going to therapy. I was listening to podcasts, I was journaling daily, I was exercising and spending time in nature, I was eating well, I was meditating and practicing yoga, I was spending time with friends when I could. I was exploring the idea of starting my own business, I got my life coach certification, and started building websites and ideas. In all my grief and pain, I still focused on one day at a time. I was doing whatever it took to help me feel better.

Then I found a book by Regina Thomashauer called “Pussy: A reclamation” This spiraled me into a whole different level of healing. A level of healing around sensuality and pleasure, which led to the start of my healing journey around sexuality which directly correlated to my creative center, the 2nd Chakra, the Sacral Chakra. I learned about the importance of somatic healing through this discovery. It deepened my healing journey immensely. I started working with my body more, not just my mind. I started becoming more in tune with the messages and signals I was receiving through my body. My Divine Feminine intuition started speaking to me louder. It’s like I was hearing the truth of my body, my heart, and my mind on a completely different level. They were starting to work together.

I had reached the deepest darkest depths that I had ever experienced that year and then I knew it was time to take the lessons that I had learned, and move on into the light.

 At the end of 2023, I moved to Pensacola, Florida to start fresh once again.

My time spent in Pensacola has been nothing short of a dream. Although it had it’s ups and downs, I know how to navigate easefully, and I have really come into my own here. When I arrived, I joined a Woman’s Circle that meets at every major point on the calendar, following the cyclical nature of the seasons. This helped me get in tune with the rhythm around me. In March of 2024, I started a self-led chakra journey that contributed greatly to my life. For 40 days back to back I spent time in pure devotion to the chakra at hand. Starting with the root for 40 days, then the sacral chakra for 40 days, making my way all the way up to the crown and then finishing with the Auric Field for 40 days. Each chakra I did, I would add on another piece of devotional material, for example, an hour of devotional guitar practice. This journey helped to be clear in my every-day life. It helped me stay devoted to myself, the Goddess within, and my purposeful path.

I took my Yoga Teacher Training for Children’s Yoga, followed by Restorative Teacher Training, Bhakti Teacher Training, and then completed my 200hr Yoga Teacher Training in March of 2025, with one of my highly instrumental mentors on my journey, Stacey Vann. 

Through all of my daily modalities, I have become more and more of the woman that I have always dreamed of. In December 2024, I started working with a Holistic Coach, Aimee-Jean Greenacre, who has also been a major catalyst to my change. I spent months learning how to find that flow within myself, and my life that I experienced back in Europe. The feminine, so to speak. Then I hired a business mentor, Azzurro Mallin, who taught me the more masculine aspect to building the life of my dreams- the structure. After all, balance is everything.

The last few years have had its ups and downs. I have been to the depths, and I have been to the highest, most vibrant light. I have learned how to ebb and flow with the current of life. I have tapped into my body and learned how to heal and unlock suppressed emotions, feelings, and expressions within. I have become confident in myself, my own expression, my thoughts, emotions, and feelings. I have become deeply in tune to the Ancient Feminine Wisdom that lives within my body. I am able to listen and hear what she is telling me. I no longer store anger, I am happy and free to play like I once did as a child, without the need for external approval or validation.  I have learned through many years of trial and error that my feminine expression is the most beautiful thing about me. That my gifts and voice deserve to be heard. This comes through movement, singing, dancing, shaking, laughing, playing, screaming, punching a pillow, raging. I have learned that I am a unique Divine Being of Light that has come to this planet to spread vibrancy, positivity, truth, radiance, love, light. While also allowing space for the dark, sticky, “ugly”, uncomfortable emotions. I am a walking, living, breathing full spectrum rainbow. I love myself, I love my light, I also love and respect my dark… because it is ALL of me. 

I spend my time coaching others into the truth of their own bodies. I have taken everything learned from my degree, to my life coaching, to my own personal journey, to my journey with coaches and I have weaved them beautifully to create containers where individuals feel safe to be free and express themselves. Where they find their unique blue print, their own purpose, and a love for life again. I am walking in my purpose, guiding others home to themselves, and I couldn’t be more grateful for my journey to get here. 

Endless Love and Abundant Blessings,

                                         Hannah Ovington