About AKimie
I didn’t find my way back to who I was.
I learned how to become who I was ready to be.
There are moments in life that change you.
LossLoveMotherhoodSuccessHeartbreakAwakeningStarting overBecoming
For a long time, I thought transformation meant healing enough to get back to myself. Eventually I realized there was no going back. The woman I had been belonged to another chapter.
The work became learning how to honor everything she survived without allowing those experiences to decide who I would become next.
My story
My journey into this work was born from rebuilding. Life introduced me to profound love, devastating loss, transition, reinvention, and the kind of experiences that make you question who you are.
- I kept going.
- I functioned.
- I adapted.
- I became strong and capable.
And eventually I started asking a different question:
Who have I become in order to survive my life, and is she still who I want to be?
Nasserre
My firstborn son, the one who made me a mother.
I will carry Nasserre in my heart for the rest of my life.
That question took me into:
beliefspatternsidentitynervous-system awarenessmeditationspiritualitybreathworksubconscious workgratitudeembodiment
and traditions and teachings I encountered through years of study and travel.
Information mattered.
Integration changed my life.
The alchemy
Alchemy, to me, is not pretending difficult things did not happen. It is not bypassing pain with positivity, and it is not endlessly analyzing what needs to be healed.
It is taking what life has given you, the beautiful, painful, confusing, and extraordinary, and deciding what it becomes from here.
Your past deserves to be understood.It does not deserve unlimited authority over your future.
Why joy?
Joy is not the reward you receive once you have finally healed enough.
It is part of the practice.
For me, the goal was never to become a perfectly healed woman.
It was to become fully alive again.
The work behind the work
Lived. Studied. Practiced. Integrated.
My approach has developed through personal transformation, formal education, professional training, spiritual exploration, international study, and direct experience with multiple approaches to human change.
Everything I bring into JTA passes through one question:
Does this help a woman understand herself more deeply and create meaningful change in the way she actually lives?
Meet AKimie
AKimie Gregory is the founder and creator of Joy Through Alchemy™, a transformational platform exploring identity, nervous-system awareness, subconscious patterns, self-worth, spirituality, embodiment, and conscious reinvention.
Her work helps women understand how their experiences shaped who they became, reconnect with their own inner knowing, and intentionally participate in who they become next.
The shamans and teachers I have worked with
Joy Through Alchemy is spiritual and personal-growth work. It is not therapy, counseling, or medical or mental-health treatment; grief work is support and companioning, not licensed counseling. If you are in crisis, please reach out to a licensed professional.