Meet Diane Bovalino

We recently connected with Diane Bovalino and have shared our conversation below.

Diane, so good to have you with us today. We’ve always been impressed with folks who have a very clear sense of purpose and so maybe we can jump right in and talk about how you found your purpose?

What led me to my purpose in life was battling a life threatening disease at the age of 40 with two young children. I endured a double mastectomy from breast cancer, reconstruction, and six months of ongoing rounds of chemotherapy. The constant follow up of care and of hormone therapy continued on in my life. Hormone therapy continued for 10 years.

After the chemotherapy was over, all I did was worry about the breast cancer coming back and I wasn’t happy in my new body, depression along with anxiety kicked in my mind, body, and soul.

I found Reiki and it healed the fear of breast cancer coming back, a gift from god. Later, I learned that Reiki is life force energy.
The Reiki sessions helped tremendously with my depression and anxiety that I was dealing with since I received the diagnosis of breast cancer.

When I was diagnosed with breast cancer, I was in management at an organization and before the diagnosis I enjoyed my position. After the diagnosis, I no longer felt that I was making a direct improvement in anyone’s life. I wanted to leave the position and thought about going back to school to be a nurse. I had no idea how I could do that when I was taking care of two young children on my income.

I would always say to the oncologist, I have to beat this cancer to raise my two boys. He would always say, you can do this, Diane. I knew God saved me to raise the two boys, and I also knew he wanted me to do more with my life also.

In 2018, I became a Reiki Master, and I was naturally called to be a Reiki healer. I continued to practice Reiki with my family and friends since I received my Reiki certificate.

In 2019, I opened Lotus Soul Healing Arts and practiced Reiki.

I always wanted to have my own business when I was a young girl, I remember that when I was 13 years old. I just didn’t know it would be a healing center.

After fighting breast cancer, and surviving, with Reiki helping me heal emotionally and deeply at the soul level, I was called to share this with the World.

I found my purpose and passion through breast cancer and Reiki.

Being a yoga Instructor was always a dream of mine, which was fulfilled during COVID through a contact I made through teaching as a Reiki Master.

I also wanted to write a book after breast cancer, and now I am an International Best Selling Author. Breast cancer has brought so much purpose and passion into my life.

It started with being a Reiki Master, then to Enterpernear, Yogi, and finally International Best Selling Author.

Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?

I am a Reiki Master, Intuitive Healer, Yogi, Passion & Purpose Coach, Brain Longevity Therapist, and Reflexologist that found her way back to health, after battling breast cancer 16 years ago. I now use all of the skills I have gained over my lifetime to heal, teach, and coach women and men to allow them to turn their challenges in life into confidence and clarity so they can thrive and feel empowered to live the life they deserve.

I opened Lotus Soul Healing Arts in 2019, which is a healing arts center with a focus on an individual’s journey, challenges, and impact on the mind, body, and soul. First, I am their Intuitive Healer, and I work with the individual either live over Zoom (or the phone) or inperson utlizing my active listening skills to hear what they are identifying as the main reason they are seeking out services at Lotus Soul Healing Arts. I use my inuitive healing techniques and skills to get to the root cause(s) for the distress and/or illness. Once I have worked with the client over a few sessions, I am able to identify if the main reason should be the focus for the work with me and what are the root cause(s) to allow us to move forward on deep healing with a mix of the healing modalites I offer. I typically, mix my healing tools over the sessions as they work with me, the tools I use are Reiki, Ama-Deus Energy Healing, Meditation, Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Crystals, Reflexology (inperson only), Lightarian AngelLinks (TM), Lightarian Purification Rings (TM), and Lightarian Clearings (TM).

It is extremely important at Lotus Soul Healing Arts, that the client can acknowledge the progress they are making on their healing journey and that they realize all the benefits they receive from the services received. The reason is the individual needs to understand their own body in the capacity of mind, body, and soul for it to heal at the cellular level. Once they can connect through the services I offer to their mind, body, and soul then the healing at all levels will begin. The body has the capacity to heal itself, it just needs all “parts” on board to get the job done. I am here as a Light Worker, which is to assist the client with his/her healing journey back to their authentic self.

I am excited to announce to your readers at this time, my first official announcement, that I am expanding my services into coaching. I am now a Passion and Purpose Coach. I have created a sacred container now to work one on one with women who are ready to create that “Fire” in their Life that has been missing. They may need to find “Fire” in their Career, Love, Business, Relationships, or they may not be sure where they need it. We will work together to light that “Fire” and get them living the life of their dreams.

I have a set of life skills, healing tools, background in human resources and project management with a Masters in Business Management. As an International Best Selling Author, I shared my story and how I used my healing tools in the workplace to thrive and overcome a toxic work relationship and burst forth like a phoenix from the ashes. This story alone shows how this impact put the “Fire” in my life to make changes for healing and thriving.

I have two more books coming out that I am announcing publically, for the first time now.

I am in the middle of creating my chapter that will be for my next multi-author book with Soulful Valley Publishing called Becoming the Manifesting Diva due out in 2024. The multi-author book will be written by coaches, healers, and authors sharing together their secrets on how they unleashed and unlocked their powers within to manifest abundance to find their dreams.

In 2024, three poems that I wrote for the first time in my career as an author will be published in a multi-author book called Soulful Poems also with Soulful Valley Publishing.

For your readers, they can sign up for a One on One Intuitive Discovery Session with me at no charge to identify the
greatest blocks that are keeping you from connecting to your authentic self to live your life to the
fullest potential of happiness, success, and abundance. Sign up at her website at https://www.lotussoulhealingarts.com.

They will also find a section on my website with the latest media publications and podcasts I have been in along with classes or offerings at this time.

Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?

The first quality that everyone must have as they open their business and become an Entrepreneur is determination. You must be determined to be in the race of running your own business for the long run. My business will be open for four years in November 2023, and I am still determined to grow into new business lines of services and products. I have plans for increasing my clients, along with gross sales and net profits, to levels that I haven’t even dreamed of yet.

You should always be your authentic self to everyone who you interact with at your business as you are the brand of your products and/or services. The main reason I opened Lotus Soul Healing Arts was because I followed my passion and purpose in life to be a healer and a coach. I found my true calling which led me to my authentic self. I share my stories and challenges in life that I have been through that can relate to my client’s journey.

Continue to stay up on your main skills and/or knowledge for your area of expertise. As an expert in your line of business, it is your responsibility to find out what the latest enhancements and/or continuing education is required. What licenses or organizations are beneficial for you to belong to in your field as a professional? Do your research and then make decisions on what organizations to belong to and/or education to add based on what aligns with your business and personal goals.

Any advice for folks feeling overwhelmed?

First, I will get myself grounded and centered with my meditation practice which only takes 5 minutes. I will sit in a comfortable position, for me this is the lotus position, and focus on my breath. When I am overwhelmed, I typically have shallow breathing. When, I am in lotus position, I first start with a normal breath if possible, then I will move to a deep breath through my nose (I say to myself-breath in love) into my diagram and hold it for a count of 5 exhale out (I say to myself – peace) out of the mouth. I will do this for 3 minutes. Then I will do a few neck rolls. I close with self Reiki on my heart center as I hold my anxiety there for 5 minutes.

Now, I am ready to focus on my tasks for the day. The key is one task at a time. Multi-tasking has been proven to not be a productive way to get your work accomplished efficiently. I focus on the most important task first in the day as I have the most energy in the beginning of the day and less interruptions. I use this time for work related written content creation for class content, marketing, or advertising.

I make a list of 5 things I want to get done and I cross them off the list as I complete them. If I don’t get all of the items done, the items that remain go to the top of the list for the next day.

I use a google calendar and have all my appointments for my business, including with clients on it, personal appointments, and classes I am teaching are loaded to the calendar also. I have the calendar color coded based on the type of appointments I have per meeting with which kind of meeting for instance; client meetings are purple, yoga classes orange, doctor appointments green, dinner or lunch meetings blue, etc..My google calendar will connect with a classes I am taking and have the zoom dial in, and I have the google calendar connected to my booking system for the business.

Every month, I have 2 days a week on the calendar set aside for setting up social media and mailing list marketing getting that all scheduled in the systems to go out. This is a great strategy to keep you from being overwhelmed when you can keep to this schedule. I usually work on marketing of social media and the mailing list one of the days out of the week.

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Red Dress (In Lens Photography) Black Dress by Book, Standing Yoga Pose in Front of Mandala, Sitting in Front of Buddha, Fear T-shirt Outside (Bridget Oppenheimer)

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