Life, Values & Legacy: Our Chat with Emmanuelle Blanc

We’re looking forward to introducing you to Emmanuelle Blanc. Check out our conversation below.

Good morning Emmanuelle, it’s such a great way to kick off the day – I think our readers will love hearing your stories, experiences and about how you think about life and work. Let’s jump right in? What are you chasing, and what would happen if you stopped?
For a long time, what I was chasing wasn’t something outside of me—it was safety. Worth. Permission to exist fully. Like many women I guide, I wore protectors like armor: the Achiever, the Pleaser, the Diplomat.
These roles kept me going, kept me useful, kept me loved—yet they also kept me far from myself.

What would happen if I stopped?

Everything would rise. The grief, the fear, the unmet needs of the girl I used to be. And that’s exactly what I now teach: that most of what blocks us today isn’t laziness or confusion—it’s a protector doing its job.

Until we meet that part, honor its origin, and reclaim what it’s guarding, we remain trapped in loops that feel like ambition, productivity, or service.

Letting go of the chase is not giving up. It’s a return. A return to the part of us that was never broken, only hidden.

Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
I guide you through the deep work of remembering who you are beneath your survival roles.
Not the achiever. Not the pleaser. Not the strong one who keeps it all together.
The real you—who’s been waiting for permission to return.

As a self-love guide—and what many now call the Breakthrough Queen—I specialize in inner child healing, protector part work, and nervous system-based transformation.
You won’t find surface guidance here. I listen for what’s unspoken. I ask the questions that unlocks what’s been buried. I hold space for what your body remembers even when your words don’t.

My work lives inside Unleash Your Inner Wealth, a brand born from my lived journey as an artist, retreat host, iPhoneographer, and author of Reclaim Your True Self (available on Amazon).
You and I don’t just talk—we move. Through rituals, through somatic role play, through mirror work and raw emotional inquiry.

Before we begin, you fill out a 70-question emotional map.
This isn’t a form—it’s a mirror. Each question traces the path back to your protectors, your unmet needs, your hidden truths. From your answers, I craft your journey. And from that journey, your voice begins to return.

Whether you’re stepping into a 10-day retreat, receiving a personalized journal, or joining a session where you meet your younger self through emotion—I’m walking beside you.
Not to fix. To witness. To guide you back to your own knowing.

What part of you is still hiding—and what happens when she finally speaks?

Appreciate your sharing that. Let’s talk about your life, growing up and some of topics and learnings around that. What did you believe about yourself as a child that you no longer believe?
As a child, I believed I wasn’t lovable unless I proved it.

When I was five, my father left the house. He remained present in my life—caring, generous, and involved—yet that departure planted a seed of fear inside me. And though he loved me, I never heard the words.
The 3 magical words “I love you” was absent, like a language nobody taught us how to speak.

My mother was stricter—unpredictable, emotionally volatile, and verbally abusive. I didn’t feel safe with her. I didn’t feel wanted. And somewhere in all of it, I began to believe that something must be wrong with me.
That my needs were too much. That my softness wasn’t worth protecting.

I now know this wasn’t truth—it was survival. It was my inner child protecting herself through self-erasure, performance, and strength. What I no longer believe is that love has to be earned. I no longer shrink or perfect myself to be chosen. I’ve stopped chasing approval from those who couldn’t give what they never received.

What have been the defining wounds of your life—and how have you healed them?
The deepest wound was never physical—it was emotional absence.

My father was affectionate, present, and deeply caring. I always felt safe with him. He loved me through his presence, his steadiness, and his attention. Yet the words “I love you” were never said—and as a child, I didn’t yet understand that love could be shown without being spoken. That silence shaped me.

My mother, on the other hand, was emotionally unpredictable, and strict. Her love felt conditional—when it was there at all. I internalized that as a child: maybe I was too much. Maybe I wasn’t lovable in my softness. Maybe I had to perform to stay close.

That wound ran deep. It shaped how I gave, how I achieved, how I abandoned parts of myself just to be accepted. I became excellent at being what others needed—yet I didn’t know how to be what I needed.

The healing began when I stopped “trying” to get from others what they were never taught to give.
I began speaking to the younger version of me—the girl who waited to be seen, held, heard and loved.
Through inner child work, body-based rituals, and what I now call protector dialogue, I met the versions of me that formed out of pain: the Achiever, the Pleaser, the Strong One.

And slowly, I chose not to abandon myself again.

This is the same work I now guide women through: meeting the parts of themselves they exiled just to survive. I believe healing happens not just through insight, yet through being witnessed in the exact place where you learned to disappear. That’s where the voice returns. That’s where we begin again.

Next, maybe we can discuss some of your foundational philosophies and views? Is the public version of you the real you?
Yes—because I’ve worked hard to stop performing healing and start embodying it.

There was a time when I wore strength like armor. I could guide others through their emotions with precision, hold space for grief, lead ceremonies with grace—yet still abandon myself behind closed doors. I wasn’t faking it, I was fragmented. The public version of me was true—yet incomplete.

Now, I don’t teach what I’ve mastered—I teach what I’m living. My clients don’t need a perfect guide.
They need someone who’s willing to be real. Who breaks, softens, rebuilds. Who speaks about the days when visibility feels like exposure, and softness feels like risk.

The woman you see now—the one guiding self-love retreats, asking 70 questions that shake your truth loose, witnessing tears on Zoom, holding hands in silence —is the same woman who still meets her inner child on the floor, in moments of grief, of clarity, of coming home.

I no longer perform being whole. I live inside the work I offer. The woman you meet in my content, my rooms, my rituals—that’s me. Not perfect. Just real and authentic.

Okay, we’ve made it essentially to the end. One last question before you go. What light inside you have you been dimming?
The light I’ve been dimming is the one that says: This version of me is still worthy of being seen.

I’ve been known for my presence. For how I move, how I dress, how I guide. I’ve been photographed in beauty. I’ve created images that speak before I say a word. And for years, that was easy—it was my natural expression.

Then menopause arrived. Quiet at first, then loud. My body shape changed. My skin changed. My energy, my appetite, even my sensuality moved in new rhythms. I still know I’m beautiful—curves and all—yet I’ve been hiding in subtle ways. Wearing the safer outfit. Taking the picture from the “right” angle.
Not showing up on camera when the face feels puffy or the fatigue sets in.

This dimming isn’t shame. It’s transition. It’s the in-between. I’m learning to stand fully in the light again, in a new skin, with a new kind of radiance—one that doesn’t need to compete with youth to be powerful.

I know that my wisdom deepens as my estrogen softens. I know my voice has sharpened as I’ve let go of being digestible. And I’m still adjusting. Still reclaiming. Still rising.

This is the light I’m choosing not to dim anymore: the woman I am now—unfiltered, evolving, still sacred.

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