If your life looks good on the outside but you feel something is missing… you’re not alone.
Welcome, I’m glad you’re here!
I’m Bev Janisch, a Calgary-based mindfulness and Enneagram coach, meditation teacher, and former master’s-prepared nurse. I support thoughtful, caring people in growing their relationship with themselves so they can live with greater calm, clarity, and self-trust.
Over the years, I’ve heard from many capable people whose lives look good on paper and yet inside they feel reactive, anxious, or quietly disconnected from themselves. Many have done therapy, read extensively, and taken courses. They’re not lacking insight; they’re lacking the tools, structure and support to grow into a way of being where they feel peaceful, grounded, and at home within themselves.
I get it, because I’ve lived it.
I’ve come to understand something I wish my younger self had known: the relationship we have with ourselves quietly shapes everything — our health, our relationships, and our sense of purpose.
My Journey From Something is Missing to Coming Home to Myself
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, unsettled, and confused by a nagging question that many people quietly carry: What is missing in my life when I have so much to be grateful for?
That season of feeling restless 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 the deeper personality patterns shaping my health, relationships, and sense of identity.
It was the first time I could clearly see why I felt the way I did.
Over time, I began to grow a different kind of relationship… the one I had been missing with myself, and the one that quietly shapes everything.
How I Help Others Build Calm, Clarity & Self-Trust
My nursing background taught me to see people as whole beings with a body, mind, heart, and soul.
But it was my own lived experience that showed me how being disconnected from ourselves impacts our nervous systems, our sense of identity, belonging and purpose.
After leaving nursing, I spent years studying and integrating meditation, mindfulness, Enneagram psychology, coaching, and HeartMath. Every teaching and practice I learned served one purpose: helping people build inner capacity to grow steadier, more compassionate relationships with themselves.
I discovered lasting change doesn’t come from managing symptoms or trying harder. It comes from cultivating awareness, regulation, and alignment with who we truly are.
What I had lived, practiced, and integrated became the foundation of what I now call the 4 Keys to Inner Peace framework — a structured approach that blends nervous system regulation with self-discovery and meaning-making.
For over a decade, I’ve had the privilege of working with people of all ages around the world through workshops, trainings, and private coaching.
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.

Bev’s latest book
Awakening A Woman’s Soul
Awakening a Woman’s Soul is for women who sense that something is missing even when life looks good on the outside. 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








