Emalani is a multimedia publication service by Emma Emalani Bennett, an author, teacher, and transpersonal empowerment coach intended to guide you towards empowerment by integrating your whole self, which gives you unrestricted access to your personal power. You'll receive guidance on self-love, leadership, success, and wealth, drawing from various disciplines such as psychobiology, transpersonal psychology, and spirituality.
Hello Visionary,
These days, my mood has been “GO AWAY I’M READING! Blame it on Rhys.
I forgot to put in the audio recording into the article before it sent out today! So instead y’all get a video today.
Yesterday, I finished A Court of Mist and Fury and this ACOTAR series is heating up. I’m into it. And Feyre + Rhysand *wiggles eyebrows.* And the Court of Dreamers 🥹.
“To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys.”
Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
Who else is reading ACOTAR???
Is Your Ambition a Trauma Response? Article Key Takeaways (At a Glance):
Ambition can be a disguised survival response—a form of fight or flight driven by fear, not inspiration.
Dysregulated nervous systems chase success to avoid feelings of unworthiness, scarcity, or rejection.
True wealth begins in the body, not just the bank account—coherence, not hustle, unlocks lasting success.
Inspired ambition flows. It’s strategic, intuitive, and honors your body and boundaries—not your trauma.
Signs of hyperambition include:
Chronic burnout
Perfectionism & proving yourself
Fear of slowing down
Constant productivity to avoid stillness
Ambition Retakes (from the video)
Because you’ve done the inner work, you are anchored and aligned with your values—what’s truly a priority for you, what’s really meaningful. You are focusing on what is most important and deflecting the rest, becoming more skillful, confident, and absolutely determined to accomplish your long-term vision.
This is where boundaries become automatic—because they come from self-respect. You respect your limitations. You no longer feel like your limitations are a problem, but a guide for how to do right by your energy, balance action and rest, and move with intention.
You’ve come to value and respect yourself, your energy, your health—so much that you are not going to compromise. And because of this, you are becoming a more powerful person, because you’re rooted in your power.
You are succeeding in a way that is holistically fulfilling—one that doesn’t burn you out, doesn’t cost you what you love or your well-being, but rather respects and supports your joy, your vitality, your vision, and all that’s meaningful to you.
Each choice, each decision, each action is becoming more deliberate, more intentional. You are learning to move in alignment with your truth—not just ambition, but integrity.
© ❤️ Emma Emalani Bennett | Your Creative Performance Trainer
Author of Written into Reality: The Art of Co-creating Your Dreams to Life, Founder, Chief Creative Officer & Director of Emalani Publishing
Dreamers, Creatives, Visionaries, I SEE YOU 🫶🏻
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“Bennett is a sensitive, thoughtful, and confident writer, with a clear desire to help others change their lives, or at least their mindset. Unpacking the apparent conflict between 'sacred' and 'logical,' and combining spiritual ideas with science and reason. Bennett’s powerful lived experience and her stunning story of personal growth provide her with authenticity and authority as an expert in overcoming hardship. Manifestation, astrology, re-architecting your reality, and changing your energetic course in life are just a few of the complex subjects Emma Bennett explores, and by and large she does a good job of weaving seemingly disparate ideas together into a cohesive whole.”
— John S., Senior Editor
A Note from Emma
Mahalo nui loa, thank you for being a part of this global community of compassionate, brilliant, heart-centered human beings. You are a gift of Source, and the light you ripple from just being who you are into this world matters deeply.
People often ask how I can still be joyful, peaceful, and positive after everything I’ve experienced — an ACE (Adverse Childhood Experience) score of 8/10, a coma, trauma, neurological complications, life experiences that stretched a dark night of the soul into multiple decades. Shamanic traditions of the Americas consider the lower world to be the place you can dive into the depths of to recover your power. I made the choice to do so and you can too.
My work as a soul alchemist and transformation catalyst helps visionary humans like you transform struggle into power, doubt into genius, and blocks into breakthroughs.
I work across four levels of reality — objective, subjective, symbolic, and holistic — to create transformation that lasts. This isn’t surface-level mindset woowoo new age dryer lint fluff. This is real, deep rewiring of your energy, intention, identity, and capacity to hold life, love, wealth, power and purpose. And to live and manifest from wholeness.
To Work with Me…
“Emma weaves magic with her words, her energy and her wisdom. Her encyclopedic knowledge resides at the intersection of brain science, personal development, marketing, spiritual teachings and real life experience from the school of hard knocks. Her intuition-led coaching style gently guides and invites self reflection, empowering each individual to discover their own path and their own unique way of sharing their gifts...
I call it ‘Soul alignment on steroids’.”
— Tammy
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Positive Neuroplasticity Practices: Rewire your brain for positivity and abundance, cultivating a mindset that acts as a honing missile locked onto opportunities to succeed, prosper, and thrive.
A Potent Blend of Positive, Humanistic, Depth, & Transpersonal Psychology: Understand and transform your relationship with power, creating a foundation for authentic empowerment.
Psychobiologically-Informed Coaching: Harness the power of mind-body connections to optimize your overall empowerment, wellbeing, and prosperity.
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With Love and Gratitude,
Emalani
“The best thing about working with Emma is how comfortable she makes you feel. As well as the vast amount of knowledge she has that is so helpful in pointing you in the right direction.”
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About Emma
Just as she graduated from university, Emma Bennett slipped on a spill in the stairwell and her life was forever altered in unimaginable ways. Since then, Emma has leveraged conscious adaptation to heal and create change through neuroplasticity, which changed her mind about what it means to live creatively. Now, Emma writes, speaks, and teaches on how to leverage the hidden powers of their remarkable brains, nervous systems, bodies, and spirits.
Emma brings together the realms of tarot, astrology, positive neuroplasticity, and transpersonal (beyond self, higher consciousness) development. Her approach is psychobiologically-informed, offering a holistic perspective on personal development that goes beyond traditional measures.
With her experience working with multinational NGOs, nonprofits, and Fortune 500 companies, including the UNDP, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Hulu, NBCUniversal, and Disney, Emma possesses a wealth of knowledge that she integrates into her coaching services. To date, she has connected with people from over 94 different countries.
Personality: Super Smoosh Cancerian Stellium 🦀♋️, INFP Idealist, Type 4 Dreamer, 2/4 Human Design Projector Right Angle Cross of the Unexpected
Which island are you from? Oahu
Mochiko chicken or lau lau? That’s not right. Let’s have it all. Both!
Movie That Makes Me Cry: Up 🎈
Favorite Show: Fringe!! Walter forever!!!
Favorite Color: Blue
Currently Listening To: Letters to a Young Poet by Maria Rainer Rilke
Books I’ve Finished Recently: The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo, The Inivisible Life of Addie LaRue by Victoria Schwab, Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb, Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt, How God Changes Your Brain by Andrew B. Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman
“Emma’s sparkling prose achieves a degree of communication with the reader in a manner few other writers of this genre can claim. Her spirit soars like the ideas she purports. Learning of her own journey to enlightenment adds to the credibility of her recommendations for truly seeking awareness. As she shares, ‘The energy I put into this book will pass on to you and the message I have to offer will sink into your subconscious, which will awaken a new perspective and awareness throughout your life. Trust your soul to sort it all out and go through life heartfirst instead of headfirst. This will provide you with the most amazing experiences of a lifetime. Your heart knows the way. Your head doesn’t have a clue.’” — Grady, reivewer of Written Into Reality: The Art of Co-Creating Your Dreams to Life
Emma's Education
B.A. Study of problems of Technological, Cultural, Political, Economic, and Environmental Globalization requiring innovative approaches to understanding of power, exchange, creativity, and social life
A.A. Behavioral sciences studies encompassing general, cognitive, neurological, physiological, developmental, intercultural, abnormal, personality, and social psychology
“I felt inspired and uplifted. The best thing was Emma’s enthusiasm, acceptance, and encouragement! I would recommend Emma for sure. No doubt she will be behind you a thousand percent.” — Elizabeth
“I don't know how you're giving this much energy... I feel so seen!” — Sheri
“That was amazing. It all resonated deeply, was encouraging, and very helpful… I have chills. This was so relevant. Thank you so much. :)” — Diana
“I've found clarity in so many areas of my life. Especially my business and finding a way I can share my message in a way I can fully stand behind. It's brought me to tears and has let my heart feel safe and open again.” — Dana
I believe in the power of giving back. That's why 10% of profits will be donated to causes we deeply care about, including organizations supporting survivors of intimate partner violence, brain injury support, and community empowerment, including:
FreeFrom, a not-for-profit organization created to help survivors of domestic violence achieve financial security, special thanks to CEO Sonya Passi and her wife Chani Nicholas, Director of External Relations Em Jackson, their wonderful friend Yolo Akili Robinson, director and founder of BEAM (Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective) for giving me a much-needed boost in the beginnings of getting my business off the ground.
Ke Kukui Foundation, non-for-profit supporting the Hawaiian and Polynesian arts and culture in Oregon and Washington, providing kokua, support, to encourage and empower the people of our communities so that we can laulima, come together to make it all easier for each other. Mahalo for demonstrating our culture, ho’ike, to show the world who we are and make our presence known with aloha, with love and grace.
The Aloha Project, Huna International, not-for-profit organization committed to joining people of the world together in a spirit of Aloha to bring about physical, emotional, mental, environmental, social, and spiritual harmony based on the wisdom found in Hawaiian philosophy and culture, mahalo nui loa to Serge, Graeme, Mai-Britt, Susan, all the members who are now my hanai ohana.
Brain Injury Connections Northwest, not-for-profit organization that has made a tremendous difference in my life with their support groups, art therapy, and the amazingly inclusive, compassionate support they’ve created for survivors of brain injury — with special heartfelt thanks to Vice President Fern Wilgus.
Brain Injury Alliance of Washington, Brain Injury Alliance of Oregon, not-for-profit organizations that connect survivors and loved ones of those who have had brain injuries to resources, special thanks to Director of Operations Justin Taft and Resource Manager Carla-Jo Whitson.
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