Beneath the busyness, the roles, and the striving, most of us are longing for the same thing — to become more fully ourselves.
Welcome, I’m Bev Janisch, a Calgary-based mindfulness coach, Enneagram guide, meditation teacher, and former master’s-prepared nurse who’s passionate about personal growth and guiding people home to themselves.
Over the years, I’ve worked with many people whose lives looked good on paper, yet, inside, they felt reactive, confused, or quietly disconnected from themselves. Like they’d lost touch with who they really were.
Many had done therapy, read extensively, and had more self-awareness than most. What they were missing wasn’t more information; it was integration using a structured path and the right personalization tools to turn their insights into lasting change.
I understand this from the inside — because I’ve lived it myself.
Here’s what I’ve come to know: Many of us were taught how to care for others, adapt, self-sacrifice, and keep going, but not how to stay connected and true to ourselves. But more importantly, I learned that it is possible to get unstuck and live with greater inner peace, wholeness, and a life that finally feels like your own.
Why I Do This Work
In 2012, I stood on top of Mount Kilimanjaro, one of the highest peaks in the world, and yet I had never felt lower. I felt anxious, stressed, and confused by a nagging question: Why can’t I just be happy when I have so much to be grateful for?
That season of feeling lost and disconnected from myself marked the beginning of a different kind of journey — not upward, but inward… and home to myself.
I began with meditation and mindfulness to calm my busy mind and reconnect with my body. These practices helped me regulate stress and build emotional resilience in ways I hadn’t understood before. But more than that, they opened a doorway inward that I didn’t realize I was searching for.
A few years later, I discovered the Enneagram, and it gave me language for my deeper personality patterns, helping me understand why I had lost myself, who I was beyond being a “good” woman and how to find my way back.
What I discovered changed everything: when you grow a healthy and loving relationship with yourself, it is possible to live with vitality, meaningful relationships and a sense of purpose.
The goal isn’t to fix yourself. It’s to feel at home within yourself.
A Path to Coming Home to Yourself
My nursing background taught me that to truly thrive, we need to live as whole beings — with an integrated body, mind, heart, and soul. But it was my own lived experience that showed me what that actually requires.
After leaving nursing, I spent years studying and integrating meditation, mindfulness, Enneagram psychology, Integral Coaching, and HeartMath — not to collect credentials, but because I was searching for a path that worked at the level where real change happens.
What I had lived, practiced, and integrated became the foundation of what I now call the 4 Keys to Inner Peace — a framework that blends nervous system regulation, mindfulness, self-understanding, and meaningful inner growth.
For over a decade, I’ve had the privilege of working with people around the world through workshops, trainings, and private coaching — and I’ve watched this path transform lives. Not because it offers quick fixes, but because it gives people the tools and structure for them to live with greater calm, clarity and self-trust in daily life.
In 2019, I published Awakening A Woman’s Soul: The Power of Meditation and Mindfulness to Transform Your Life to share these insights more widely.
It is possible to feel more like yourself than you ever have — at any age, at any stage, from wherever you’re starting.
Collaborations, Speaking & Shared Spaces
One of the things I love most is bringing people together in thoughtful conversations about meditation, mindfulness, self-understanding, and the relationship we have with ourselves.
I enjoy collaborating with practitioners, community groups, wellness organizations, retreats, and shared learning spaces, exploring the intersection of science, soul, and human growth.
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Bev’s latest book
Awakening A Woman’s Soul
Awakening a Woman’s Soul is for women who long to come home to themselves. Blending meditation, mindfulness, and soul-centered reflection, this book offers a compassionate path inward. It guides you to reconnect with who you truly are beneath roles and expectations, cultivate inner peace, and live in alignment with your deeper knowing.
“A must read for every woman!”
Bev’s Formal Training and Certifications
1984 Bachelor of Science in Nursing, University of Alberta
1993 Master’s of Nursing, University of Calgary
2014 Certified Meditation and Mindfulness Instructor, McLean Meditation Institute
2014 The Power of Mindfulness with Jack Kornfield, nicabm
2017 Co-active Communication, Mindfulness Coaching School
2018 Deep Coaching Intensive, Center for Transformational Coaching
2019 Usui/Holy Fire 11 Reiki
2020 Integral Associate Coach™, Integral Coaching Canada Inc.
2020 Integral Coaching & the Enneagram: Soul-Building & Contribution, Russ Hudson and James Flaherty
2020 Own The Shadow of Your Enneagram Personality Type, Beatrice Chestnut
2021 Developing Powerful Enneagram Skills, Chestnut Paes Enneagram Academy
2021 Intensive 1/2, The Narrative Enneagram
2021 Instincts & Subtypes, The Narrative Enneagram
2021 The Typing Process, The Narrative Enneagram
2021 Providing Effective Enneagram Solutions, Chestnut Paes Enneagram Academy
2022 Deepening Spiritual Awareness, The Narrative Enneagram
2022 The Enneagram For Therapists, Counselors, and Coaches, The Narrative Enneagram
2023 Trauma Awareness in Coaching, Deep Coaching Institute
2025 HeartMath Certified Mentor, Building Personal Resilience Program
