Anita Bentata transforms the uncomfortable into living from our essence.

She is a psychotherapist, speaker, author, events and online presenter.

After a traumatic childhood and then escaping relationship abuse/domestic violence Anita began a new life with her two young children. Anita searched for a therapy which could connect to the forgotten and hidden parts of her to begin living from her essence.

As a psychotherapist specialising in trauma and the unconscious Anita has been working in the field nearly 25 years.

Through Activating Artemis, Anita mentors women, and is the founder of Big Hearted Women communities, to reclaim emotional muscle and engage and live from our healthy, fierce, wise, loving, feminine energy.

Anita teaches how to develop the inner marriage between feminine and masculine principles within each of us, so we have the capacity to speak about the uncomfortable, take right action, through the attunement to our body, feelings, unconscious and instinct. So we can engage in the world freely and confidently, creating a healthy relationship with ourself and others.

Activating Artemis provides ground breaking solutions, addressing the gaps through: speaking events, books, online training courses and retreats for professionals, survivors and the general public: for prevention, intervention and recovery.

Living from our essence is about

going inward,

trusting the subtle,

following our quiet, inner guidance, over outer loud voices or forces

Living From Our Essence is about staying with the uncomfortable or unfamiliar and cross those barriers others consciously or unconsciously use to contain/control or define us.

It is about being with our optimal feminine power so we be who we are and don't hold ourselves back.

It is about being strong and aligned in mind, body, heart and soul.

It is about knowing who we truly are and not how others see or perceive us.

It is about being wiling to disrupt others, to honour our reality and truth.

It is about being aligned to our inner creative self rather than aligned to ‘belonging’

It is about trusting our connection to our instinct, spirituality and soul and being guided from this power, rather than the power of ‘rules’ ‘family’ ‘patriarchy’

Life led me to listen to my essence.

As a girl I knew certain things about my parents but because they didn’t want to acknowledge it. I buried what I knew and so my ‘reality’ became distorted and I became used to acting as if 'what was not safe was safe' and 'what was not loveable was lovable'. I also experienced things about my parents mental health challenges and unresolved trauma that I did not have the adult brain yet to identify by adult labels but I knew the affect on me when denied and not owned…

I learnt to give up me and instead be pleasing to others.

Escaping domestic violence was the bottom of a dark hole for me and helped me to wake up to how I felt and that the most important thing was that I wanted to feel good, every day and feel ease, wellbeing and comfortable in my skin. I wanted to create my life, not have others create and plan my life.

Enough.

Now I share all I have learnt so today is the beginning of the rest of your life living from your essence, with joy, clarity and well being.

Go to www.anitabentata.com to learn more about me or to learn about my other programs including the amazing, affordable, life and self healing skills membersip program for women www.anitabentata.com/activatingselflove