Today we’d like to introduce you to Erica Jene.
Hi Erica, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a healer. As a Registered Nurse and healthcare leader for over two decades, I held space for others’ pain, transitions, and triumphs. I wasn’t just good at it, I was devoted. And somewhere deep inside, I kept wondering… What if we had the space to go the extra mile? And time and time again, I saw the spark ignite in people when I met them in that sacred space beyond duty.
Still, the deeper I went, the more I could feel the system’s walls closing in. It wasn’t sustainable. I was burning out.
After navigating personal grief and a professional crisis as a home health administrator during Hurricane Ian—which devastated my community—I came to terms with a truth I could no longer ignore:
I had forgotten myself.
So, I chose differently. I chose me.
I told everyone that for one year, I would put myself first. What began as self-care became a sacred initiation. I was healing something deeper. Energetic. Spiritual.
Around this time, I pulled out a folder my father and I had worked on before he passed. It connected me to our Native lineage. To the circle, the drum, the Earth, the sacred. Suddenly, the whispers I had been hearing made sense.
The rose wasn’t just a flower I cherished. She was a messenger.
Ever since I was a little girl, my dad would gift me roses for every occasion. But it wasn’t until I followed that intuitive nudge all the way to Morocco that I understood. The Rose had been leading me home to myself. And so was he.
I began seeing hearts everywhere.
They were carved in stone, floating in clouds, inside the rose petals and etched into seashells. My dad always told me to “follow my heart.” I didn’t realize until much later that I had been doing exactly that. The signs were there. The love was there. The remembering was there.
What I once thought was holistic, I now see as a connection to divine guidance. It is intuitive and intentional.
This was bloodline work.
Soul work.
And that is how Soulful Experience and All Things Rose were born.
Not from strategy, but from ceremony.
Not from branding, but from a breaking open.
From the seeds of my own rebirth.
From the Rose.
From the Heart.
This is where healing becomes devotion.
Where the soul of my lived experience became my offering.
Where Soulful Experience bloomed All Things Rose.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Absolutely not smooth. Sacred, yes. But smooth? No.
Healing and unbecoming rarely are.
Most people don’t talk about how hard it is to walk away from a life that looks successful on paper.
Leaving a six-figure leadership role in the middle of grief, burnout, and economic uncertainty was terrifying. But my soul was louder than my fear. I had spent decades being what everyone needed me to be. A mother, a nurse, a leader, a constant fixer. I had never once asked myself who I was without all those roles.
And the truth is, I hadn’t left sooner because I was more afraid of how it would affect others than I was honest about how deeply it was affecting trying to hold it all together.
The unraveling that came wasn’t linear. It wasn’t glamorous.
But it was holy.
I had to face spiritual isolation. I had to release the belief that choosing myself was selfish. The identity loss. The quiet grief of no longer recognizing the version of yourself you once fought so hard to become. A deep shedding that no one prepares you for.
I questioned everything.
I doubted my path.
I made decisions that didn’t make sense on paper—but made perfect sense in my heart.
The work? Whew. It’s not easy. Doing the deep inner work will crack you open in places you didn’t know existed. But it also awakens something wildly beautiful. Sacred.
Because when you learn how to truly love yourself, you begin to understand what it means to offer your heart as medicine back to a world so desperately in need.
This wasn’t about escaping healthcare.
It was about finding my way back to why I started healing in the first place.
Choosing myself wasn’t selfish—it was survival.
And ultimately, it became the most selfless act of all.
Because from that place of wholeness, I could finally offer my gifts from overflow, not depletion.
From embodiment, not burnout.
From experience—not textbooks.
That’s where everything changed.
That’s when I became the healer I was born to be.
I had to walk through fire to reclaim my own medicine.
And the truth is—every time I doubted, the Rose appeared.
Every time I wanted to give up, there was a heart.
I didn’t just believe in signs—I followed them and lived them.
This wasn’t ease.
This was initiation.
This wasn’t success.
This was a remembering.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your business?
I am a heart-centered healer and sacred creative.
A Rose Priestess.
A Certified Vibrational Sound Healer.
And a Level 2 Holy Fire Reiki Practitioner.
I now weave my clinical experience into my multidimensional healing practice and rose-based apothecary—Soulful Experience | All Things Rose.
My work bridges modern medicine with ancient feminine wisdom.
What I offer is not just a service. It’s what I call ceremonial healing. A lived transmission. A living frequency. A return to the heart.
I specialize in creating safe spaces for healing and remembrance—through private and community-based healing sessions, ceremonies, sound baths, sacred circles, and rose-infused offerings. Everything I do is rooted in ritual, remembrance, and reverence for the sacred.
My work integrates two central forces: The Rose and the Flame.
The Rose represents remembrance, beauty, softness, and heart-based healing.
The Flame brings clarity, transmutation, and energetic renewal.
Together, they form the foundation of my practice. Even my handcrafted products carry this frequency.
Every oil, tea, soak, or spray is divinely guided and crafted in ceremony and intentionally created to support the skin, soul, and space.
As a Rose Priestess, I am a healer, a teacher, and a guide. Someone who tends to the sacred in everyday life.
My devotion to the Rose Lineage and the rising feminine has taken me across oceans, from the valleys of Morocco to the healing waters of Portugal, where I’ve studied not only the spiritual power of the rose, but also, it’s medicinal science.
Rose is not just a symbol.
She is a proven alley for the nervous system, heart, skin regeneration, and emotion balance.
And in my work, those worlds meet. The sacred and the science. Ceremony and clinical care. Scent and spirit. Grief and grace.
My proudest moments have come from supporting memory care seniors in remembering who they are. Not through medicine, but through love, music, touch, and presence. I’ve seen entire units transform without ever opening a med cart. And in the past year and a half, I’ve received more feedback from clients saying I’ve changed their lives and not just their pain levels or vitals, but their sense of self, their spiritual wellbeing, their ability to feel again.
What sets my work apart is the intention behind it. Every experience I facilitate is unique, created for the energies present in that moment, the moon cycles, elemental rhythms, seasonal shifts, and the soul of the person I am working with.
My work meets people where they are, whether they’re facing burnout, grief, transition, or seeking reconnection with self.
It’s not a one-size-fits-all approach. It’s deeply personal, intuitive, and sacred.
This is how I bring healing into everyday life.
This is how I bring the heart and beauty back into service.
Any big plans?
I no longer chase direction.
I listen.
And the more I listen, the louder it gets.
I am deeply grateful for the blooming of so many visions, and I also know this abundance wouldn’t exist without the roots of my devotion.
I walk with reverence. For my lineage, the Earth, the Mary’s, the reader, and this sacred unfolding we all share.
In 2026, I’ll be self-publishing A Rising Magdalene. A devotional memoir of journaled entries and rose remembrance that have guided me through this transformation.
After completing a nine-month Priestess apprenticeship and two 90-day business coaching containers, I find myself in a sacred pause.
A breath.
A moment to soften into the skin of who I’ve become.
If I had to name three core future directions, here’s what I’m most deeply called to:
I feel called to expand The Soulful Experience Method™. My sacred framework rooted in ceremony, presence, and creative expression for seniors. Yes, anyone can lead crafts or play music, but what I offer is more than an event. It’s a presence. A healing experience. Ceremony.
My dream is to mentor nurses, caregivers, and heart-led humans to bring this work to elder communities everywhere.
Because our elders deserve more than care. They deserve reverence.
And the healers called to serve them deserve support, too.
I also feel the pull to return to Morocco to co-create with the land that reawakened me.
Each time I walk through the Valley of the Roses, my heart races with a feeling of home.
I imagine spending rose season there, crafting offerings in ceremony, tending to the ancient blooms that first taught me devotion, and sharing them with cafés, spas, and healers across the sacred lands that helped me remember who I am.
And someday soon, I will birth a sanctuary. A physical space where truly all things Rose live.
A place that weaves together healing, community, and creation:
• A rose garden where guests can pick their own bundles.
• A space for workshops, weddings, and healing retreats
• A Rose Spa with massage, hammam, and herbal soaks
• A community café with rose-based food and drink
• A storefront and apothecary for my handmade products
• And a gathering space for other healers to share their gifts
What unfolds next, I trust it will always be true.
Because when you follow the heart long enough, it begins to lead you back home.
Back to your purpose.
Back to your joy.
Back to the sacred.
I’m convinced the hearts are following me now.
So I’ll keep walking the spiraling path of the Rose,
And carry her petals of blessings wherever it may take me.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://soulful-experience.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yoursoulfulexperience
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1Bqe9kHgCB/?mibextid=wwXIfr
- Other: https://soulfulexperience.etsy.com/
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