Writer + Creative Expression Coach

There is more of you in there.

I help women see the whole picture of who they are, put words to what’s inside them, and turn that clarity into action.

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what wants to come out?

You’re not empty.
You’re unexpressed.

Full of thoughts, stories, desires, ideas, gifts – and entire parts of yourself waiting to come out.

But when you try to decide what you want, explain who you are, create something, or let yourself be seen, it all becomes tangled.

The answer isn’t to force more out of yourself. It’s to understand what’s already there – and what’s begging to be expressed.

The whole picture changes everything. ↗

The truth underneath the block

To express yourself, you have to be willing to excavate yourself.

What you refuse to face doesn’t disappear. It becomes the cage.

We can look at what shaped you, what you’ve survived, what you value, what you want, what you have to offer, and what is ready to become real.

This is how we move.

Examine.
Excavate. Express.

Examine

See the whole picture of who you are, what shaped you, and where you’re stuck.

Excavate

Get underneath the block to the truths, patterns, desires, and gifts waiting to be recognized.

Express

Turn what you uncover into words, choices, creative work, visibility, and action.

Not a personality test. Not a generic formula. You, clearly.

Private work with Malana

See yourself clearly. Create what comes next.

This is whole-person coaching for the woman who feels blocked, tangled, or disconnected from her own direction. Together, we examine what’s happening across your life, health, history, identity, creativity, and work so you can understand yourself clearly, express what’s inside you, and take meaningful action.

Open what matters to you.

What we can explore

Who you are – and what shaped you
Where you’ve been silencing or abandoning yourself
What you value, want, know, and have to offer
What in you is ready to be seen, said, written, created, or lived

What you can leave with

Clearer language for what is true now, a more coherent view of the whole picture, and specific next actions that move your life or work forward.

What I bring to the process

More than a decade of writing, editing, strategy, business-building, workshops, advising, and lived experience with trauma, abuse, addiction recovery, faith, and rebuilding, plus my training as a Certified Quantum Mind-Body Therapist® + Certified Functional Nutrition Therapist.

Format + practical details

Private work for adult women, available online and in Honolulu. Start with a short application so I can understand where you are and what you want help with. If I feel like I can help, I’ll reach out with next steps and, if it makes sense, an invitation to talk.

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One gift. Many contexts.

What I have helped women do.

My work has changed form across writing, strategy, wellness, trauma, and creative expression. The recurring gift has not: I see what is tangled, find the thread, put language around it, and help women take action.

See what she couldn’t see from inside it.

Women have recognized patterns in their bodies, histories, relationships, and work that had been difficult to understand alone.

“Witnessing your work has helped me uncover repressed sexual trauma and to feel like a human being.”

– Z

Put the real thing into words.

I’ve clarified identity and positioning, strengthened writing without erasing the writer, and found the question underneath the question.

“You put into words the big question of ‘What do I do and who am I?’ … I was feeling SO blocked. It opened things up and got things flowing again.”

– C

Turn clarity into movement.

Women have made career changes, begun speaking about trauma, taken health actions they had delayed, published stronger work, and found renewed creative direction.

“I was able to make positive changes in my life, career changes, and I even started talking about what I had been through to help inspire others.”

– G

“She’s such a great writer, truth-exposer, emotion-revealer.”

– Liana Shanti

Writer + editorStrategist + organizerCertified practitionerWorkshop facilitatorOnline since 2012

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About Malana

I know what it is to have a voice – and still live with entire parts of yourself unable to speak.

I spent years helping other women organize their ideas, tell their stories, build businesses, launch work, and bring their gifts into the world while entire parts of my own life remained sectioned off.

Then turning to Jesus, facing abuse, addiction, shame, chronic pain, the end of my marriage, family estrangement, and the consequences of telling the truth changed my relationship with my voice.

I didn’t return to my creative work as the same woman. I returned with more depth, truth, discernment – and a commitment to my fullest expression.

Today, I combine that lived experience with my training as a Certified Quantum Mind-Body Therapist® + Certified Functional Nutrition Therapist to examine how your mind, body, history, patterns, and environment have shaped the woman you’re showing up as today, excavate what’s been buried beneath the surface, and help you bring more of who you actually are into your voice, your work, and your life.

a life with room for all of you.

Essays from the excavation

Malana
Writes.

Personal writing about voice, truth, abuse, faith, identity, creativity, and the life that becomes possible when you stop hiding from yourself.

Visit the Substack

So You Want to Express Yourself? Then STOP Trying to Be a Good Girl.Pink Nails, Perfume, and the Path Less Traveled.What Do You Want Now?

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It’s time to be seen.

There is so much more of you waiting to be expressed.

Let’s bring the depths of who you are into your words, your work, and the life you want now.