Courtney Anne Pierce, MA
This is the story of Courtney’s life and the founding of Awakening Heart Awareness—organic, accidental, and an example of what happens when we open our mind, break our hearts open, and choose to truly live.
Welcome.
In the midst of everything there was an ineffable empty.
After dabbling in high school and scratching the surface in college, Courtney's mystical path truly began shortly after her first marriage, when depression left her unable to get out of bed. Despite having everything the world says we should want and need, she found herself staring out her bedroom window at a red brick wall—literally. Caught in the double-bind of wanting to leave the planet while knowing that wouldn't help her feel better, she felt trapped in an ineffable pain both invisible and seemingly irrational.
The discovery of a book on her shelf one day made all the difference. By no volition of her own, she picked it up and began reading—a book she had purchased in college but never opened. It wasn't a self-help book, an improvement book, a find-God book, or a heal-depression book. It was the biography of a woman outsider artist. It changed her life.
In a miraculous instant, she realized a fundamental truth: we must accept our own humanity.
A difficult choice for an healthier, happier, more enthusiastic existence.
Next came Conversations With God by Neale Donald Walsch, and her conscious journey along the mystical path had truly arrived. She stepped into it clumsily and voraciously—a starving woman. A year and a half later, with a young daughter in tow, she leapt onto the road less traveled, leaving a dysfunctional marriage to find herself and live according to the purpose of her heart.
This road less traveled is riddled with potholes, pitfalls, speed bumps, U-turns, detours, roadblocks—and vistas beyond measure. She fell again and again, until finally she was lifted up by all she had experienced, healed, and learned. Awakening Heart Awareness was born by no conscious will of her own, as people began coming to her with their concerns and questions. She received them reluctantly at first, yet they reported back the welcome changes taking place in their lives and began referring others.
The secret was this: Human stories shared solve human hurts suffered.
With a master's degree in Spiritual Psychology—the rigorous study of multiple disciplines, philosophies, and therapeutic modalities—plus an additional 12+ years of divinity training and study in a myriad of traditions and philosophies—east and west—including education in numerous fields that appear unrelated but are not— Courtney has helped countless individuals transform their lives.
She recognizes that there will always be those who insist other people should change, or that changing outer experiences will solve our inner turmoil. This is the antithesis of Awakening Heart Awareness.
Exemplifying the joy, depth, and mastery of real life.
Awakening Heart Awareness is an individual practice of self-realization, often dispelling the misinterpretations and misguidance of prolific teachings popularized in the world—that actually keep people frustrated, afraid, and discouraged.
It’s often the case that these misunderstandings are what keep people most blocked and stuck right as they’re on the precipice of real freedom and change. Meditation doesn’t always equal peace, prayer doesn’t always equal help, and positive thinking doesn’t always yield rewards, the law of attraction is not what you think.
By gleaning the wisdom and essence behind every teaching, we discover the truth—the reality of what is. We get real.
Within every individual there is a marriage that lifts, an answer that solves, a family that connects, a career that delights, a well-being that’s optimal, and a steady, still peace that ignites, inspires, and fulfills all things effortlessly.
The secret isn’t in discovering who you really are, your real self within, but in realizing and releasing all you are not, of which only your true self remains.
Herein is the experiential discovery of authentic presence, the capacity and innate ability to consciously create, embrace, and accept the truth of your heart and live true to the wisdom within that sets you free into a life that exemplifies your most natural state of being—peace, prosperity, health, self-mastery, and well-being.
Receiving in proportion to your own receptivity.
Clients receive in proportion to their own willingness to let go of what they have been told, read, or taught, and discover a whole new way: easier, simpler, timely. Because Awakening Heart Awareness recognizes that what you desire for yourself, and the change you’re seeking requires an inner experiential shift in consciousness it recognizes solely relying on psychology, modalities, tools, techniques, or belief is a waste of time.
Instead, it effortlessly blends various fields of knowledge serving genuine healing and transformation revealing the whole of who you truly are liberating all you’re truly worth—which could be said is immeasurable. Yet free of the neurosis, dysfunctions, fears, and attitudes of the world, clients find themselves centered in the security, comfort, and truth of the heart through which life unfolds upwards in material world that we’ve been told progresses downward (age, illness, retirement, loss.)
Courtney’s clients come from all backgrounds, faiths, and levels of education, and many have held or currently hold public-facing positions. Regardless of age, clients have courageously experienced more for themselves and their families and contributed even more meaningfully to the world.
She works with those recovering from trauma, experiencing spiritual malaise, freeing themselves from toxic relationships, seeking the fulfillment of heartfelt goals and dreams, elevating a business, transitioning into a new chapter of life, and letting go of the old to try something thrilling and new.
She limits her client list to provide the individual attention each person deserves along their journey into a higher, more self-fulfilling design for living and loving. Awakening Heart Awareness requires a commitment of three months to start. A consultation helps you gain a greater sense of whether this work is right for you.
If you feel inspired, please reach out. Your transformation may be closer than you think.
Voices expressed in response to Courtney’s Writing