Surrendering to Spirit
Trained therapist, restorative justice practitioner, spiritual life coach, and inspirational speaker - Adelina Tancioco supports WOC in surrendering to the divine within.
In partnership with Surrendered Healing
Six years ago, when Adelina Tancioco, MSW, started her company Surrendered Healing, the term “healer” was almost taboo. Instead of shying away from it, however, Adelina wanted to reclaim and embrace the healing power that had been passed down through her Filipina lineage after her previous jobs left her burned-out and exhausted. Turning to her intuitive and empathic gifts, her spiritual coaching business was born; and Adelina’s calling to support women of color in claiming their worth and trusting their higher selves began to take off.
“Healing comes from our relationship with our higher power and intuition,” Adelina says. “Filipina healer Angela Angel once said that the Philippines was created to be the healing center for the world. We birth healers.”
Adelina is a trained therapist, restorative justice practitioner, spiritual life coach, and inspirational speaker – but she identifies most with being a vessel of healing. For Adelina, growing up in a family of domestic violence led her down a path towards social work, underserved youth communities, and restorative justice. But she became exhausted and burnt out from the lack of resources, impact, and support. So she pivoted and surrendered to a higher power to pursue her life’s work – focusing on the women in order to impact the family.
“Surrender is very different from submit,” Adelina says. “You surrender to your higher self and get out of your own way. You surrender your ego so the divine in you can take over. You surrender the ‘how.’ The ‘how’ is not your business, the ‘what’ is.”
Moving from hustling to healing, from burnt-out to brimming with excitement and passion, Adelina had to learn to let go of code-switching and working for “the man.” In figuring out her “what”, she began to specialize in serving WOC in moving past their limiting beliefs and fears and co-manifesting their visions. Her work then organically flowed into business coaching. She started taking business courses and transmuting the teachings into something she could use.
“Surrender is very different from submit. You surrender to your higher self and get out of your own way. You surrender your ego so the divine in you can take over. You surrender the ‘how.’ The ‘how’ is not your business, the ‘what’ is.”
“I knew how to counsel and how to coach, but I didn’t have any business sense initially,” Adelina says. “I asked myself, why are all the teachings not talking to us as women of color? I made it fit me and shared what I was learning. It started landing with friends.”
With her mix of self-taught business savvy and guidance from intuition and Spirit, her business bloomed into multiple six-figures with an all-Filipina coaching team and nine-person staff. Focusing on WOC clients and running businesses from a place of healing instead of hustling, she and her “Dream Team” teach their clients how to create new economies within their own communities. They offer one-to-one coaching, group coaching, motivational speaking, as well as provide free community resources like healing meditations.
“We focus on intuition, identity, and impact,” Adelina says. “Intuition is the biggest life – and business – hack that we have. I teach my clients to lean on that in everything they do.”
In a society where women make $0.83 to every dollar earned by men, Adelina’s focus on women, particularly women of color, is deliberative.
“The healing of the world is inside of us as women of color,” she says. “The world needs more of us to do the things that we are created to do. When we do that, the world heals. In doing so, we’re creating a whole new economy because we’re hiring each other and paying what we’re deserved. When you give to women, the community is uplifted because we as women make sure to give back to the community.”
“Connect with your intuition every step of the way. Be and stay your whole self so that other people can find you from your own authenticity.”
Through her organization’s work, Adelina has helped her clients accomplish everything from quadrupling their income to stepping back to focus on their vision. A popular workshop she offers is called “Stop the Hustle and Flow.” During the pandemic and the “Great Resignation,” figuring out the “what” has become even more pronounced as burnt-out workers re-shift their priorities.
“Globally, we’re grieving, and in grief we can see what really matters to us,” she says. “During the pandemic, more people have come to this place of not wanting to hustle. They like the balance.”
Venturing into the unknown, Adelina’s next project is hosting a three-hour workshop for aspiring and experienced women of color spiritual life coaches called “Awakening the Divine Within.” With the help of her staff, she hopes to pull back the curtain on spiritual life coaching to help other WOC leverage their own unique strengths in supporting others in their healing.
“This is our first event specifically for spiritual life coaches,” she says. “There are so many more folks stepping into this, and it’s the more the merrier – especially women of color. If we can do it, they can do it. And run with it.”
Spiritual life coaches or not, Adelina’s advice rings true for those searching for time, money, and relationship abundance:
“Connect with your intuition every step of the way. Be and stay your whole self so that other people can find you from your own authenticity.”
For more information about Adelina, Surrendered Healing, and the upcoming workshop “Awakening the Divine Within,” this Saturday, December 4, 2021, follow @SurrenderedHealing or visit http://www.surrenderedhealing.com/.
DYANNA VILLALUNA Volek
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Dyanna (she/her/hers) is a San Francisco "jill of all trades" - attorney, budding rockhound, tea jockey, marriage commissioner, health enthusiast, and writer for her personal blog, Style & Fitness in San Francisco. She is passionate about sharing the stories of Filipina womxn's diverse, vibrant, and innovative movements. Her style stems from the vintage clothing her Abuelita collected from garage sales for Balikbayan boxes, and she strives to promote the tenents of slow fashion.
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