Flourishing Ecology

An Inquiry by Cherie Aimée

What allows humans and the living world to flourish?

An evolving body of work exploring what it means to live, work and age in ways that are more human, relational and alive.

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Introduction

Flourishing Ecology is an evolving inquiry into the conditions that allow a human life to flourish. It brings together the body, relationship, belonging, meaningful participation, aging, care, the living world and the deeper questions that accompany being human.

The work has grown from Cherie Aimée's own experience of profound illness, survival and rebuilding, alongside decades of professional experience, spiritual study, contemplative practice and learning within communities.

When the life you’ve built no longer fits

There are seasons when the ways we’ve learned to live, work, love and care for others no longer feel sustainable.

Perhaps you’ve spent years building, achieving, adapting or holding things together. Perhaps you’ve followed the paths you were taught would lead to fulfillment, only to discover that something essential has been left unattended.

These moments are not always invitations to do more. Sometimes they ask us to reconsider what we’re building our lives around, what we’re carrying, and what might become possible if we began listening differently.

Flourishing Ecology is a place to explore those questions.

Making room for who we have become

For so many years, the question may have been how to survive, how to heal, how to fulfill your responsibilities, how to preserve what matters, and how to remain connected to the people you love.

But now a different question seems to be emerging. One about remaining whole within the relationships that shape our lives.

How do I remain deeply connected to life, to others, and to the living world without abandoning my own becoming?

Sometimes the most unfamiliar part of becoming is learning to inhabit the life we have created.

After years of surviving, grieving, questioning and rebuilding, even a beautiful life can feel unfamiliar. We may find ourselves learning to trust what we have chosen, to receive what is good and to live without continually preparing for what might be lost.

Areas of inquiry

Territory being explored, not services.

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Seasons of Change

A private one-to-one session offering creative space for thoughtful reflection, fresh perspective and a more authentic relationship with your life.

Together, we will listen deeply to the questions you’re carrying, what may be changing, and what needs tending as you learn to trust your own understanding, navigate uncertainty and inhabit the life that is becoming your own.

Sessions are held privately by phone. No preparation is needed. I will call you at the phone number you provide.

Length
90 minutes
Session fee
$495
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Scholarships · Coming in 2027

An opportunity to make the work of Flourishing Ecology more accessible. Further details will be shared in 2027.

The Five Sacred Elements

Pathways that shaped the work

Flourishing Ecology has emerged through lived experience, sacred relationships, ancestral remembrance and a deepening intimacy with the living world. These pathways continue to shape my understanding of the body, beauty, belonging and what it means to be fully alive.

  1. 01 · Earth · Roots & Belonging

    Kinship, ancestry & the living world

    Connection with animals, plants, seasonal rhythms and the wisdom of remembrance.

  2. 02 · Water · Memory & Renewal

    Grief, mystery & surrender

    Emotional depth, sacred ritual and the wisdom of allowing life to flow.

  3. 03 · Fire · Desire & Transformation

    Rose, myrrh & the body

    Faith, tenderness, embodiment, devotion and the remembrance of life through the senses.

  4. 04 · Air · Presence & Inner Freedom

    Ritual, beauty & rest

    Sacred rhythms, nourishment, presence, trust and the art of inhabiting life.

  5. 05 · Ether · Consciousness & Love

    Death, consciousness & return

    The mysteries of consciousness and the cycle of life, death and becoming.

These pathways are not separate from one another. They are living relationships that continue to shape how I understand the body, the sacred, the natural world and what it means to be fully alive.

Insights from the field

Essays, audio reflections and field notes exploring what it means to live, heal, belong and flourish in relationship with ourselves, one another and the living world.

EssaysLong-form writing exploring a flourishing human life.→
AudioSpoken reflections and contemplative recordings.→
Field NotesObservations from lived experience and the living world.→
PodcastsSelected interviews and meaningful conversations.→
Pink rose in bloom against deep green foliage

Photograph by Alicia Christin

Professional experience

Before Flourishing Ecology, Cherie spent years as an entrepreneur, founder, advisor, storyteller and international speaker. Her work crossed technology, leadership, social impact and global communities, bringing her into conversation with people and organizations across cultures and ways of life.

Her story and work have reached millions through television, film, media and public speaking, including appearances on Megyn Kelly TODAY and The Dr. Oz Show, international keynotes, and gatherings exploring leadership, consciousness, ancestry and the near-death experience.

She has also worked behind the scenes as a storytelling consultant and alongside founders, organizations and global initiatives. These years shaped her understanding of leadership, human behavior, story, culture and what people reach for when the structures they have built no longer hold.

Selected experience

  • 2025GOSS Magazine, Manifest Issue No. 100
  • 2024Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Film Consultant, Storytelling & Near‑Death Experience$405 million worldwide box office
  • 2024International Association for Near‑Death Studies, Co‑host & Keynote
  • 2022Global Leadership Africa Summit, Keynote
  • 2020Wander Darkly, Cast, Talk Show Guest2020 Sundance Film Festival Official Selection
  • 2019Women in Cybersecurity, Keynote
  • 2018Megyn Kelly TODAY / The Dr. Oz Show

As seen in

TODAY
Forbes
Inc.
Nasdaq
NHK
abc
FOX
LIONSGATE
GOSS
NBC NEWS

Selected Features

Kind words

“Her speech about her own near-death experience and health journey had so much incredible depth, emotion and insight about why we are here and how we can live our lives with greater purpose and peace. She delivered her message with such grace, eloquence, passion and wisdom. I left with a greater understanding of taking care of myself, living with greater connection to others and more meaning.”
LanaNew York, NY
01 / 10

The Rose Circle

The Art of Flourishing, Together

An intimate circle of women cultivating beauty, spirituality, meaningful relationships and a deeper connection with the living world.

The RoseCircleDevotionBeautyKinshipPresenceNourishmentBecoming
Devotion
Honoring what is sacred and meaningful.
Beauty
Cultivating wonder and reverence for life.
Kinship
Deepening relationships with one another and the living world.
Presence
Making room for contemplation, listening and rest.
Nourishment
Tending to the body, heart and spirit through care, pleasure and restoration.
Becoming
Allowing ourselves the freedom to grow and change.

An Invitation to Connect

The Rose Circle is beginning to take shape as a small, intentional community of women.

Black-and-white portrait of Cherie Aimée

Devotion: The Way of Beauty, 2024

Movement art by Cherie Aimée
Photography by Hande Gurdogan

About the Artist & Storyteller

Cherie Aimée is the founder, voice and wisdom weaver behind Flourishing Ecology. Her work emerges where lived experience, professional experience, spiritual and contemplative study, and relationship with the living world meet.

After surviving an extraordinary near-death experience, Cherie’s story reached more than 100 million people through television, film and media. What followed became a much longer inquiry into what allows a human life to truly flourish.

Today, that inquiry is woven into the rhythms of her everyday life. Time with horses, healing rituals, farmers markets, food grown close to home and meaningful relationships within her local community. Flourishing Ecology is not simply something she studies or writes about. It is a way of life she actively cultivates and inhabits.

Cherie lives by the lake surrounded by farms with her husband of nearly twenty years.

Spiritual traditions & ways of knowing

With gratitude for the teachers, elders and traditions whose wisdom continues to shape my life and understanding.

  1. 01 · The body

    Somatic & embodied practices

    Learning to listen to the wisdom of the body through John F. Barnes Myofascial Release, Somatic Experiencing® and Feldenkrais®.

  2. 02 · The creative life force

    African ancestral teachings

    Wisdom received through mentorship with Yoruba, Zulu and Zimbabwean elders, exploring ancestral remembrance, sacred relationship and the creative forces of life.

  3. 03 · Kinship with the living world

    Indigenous teachings & relationships

    Wisdom shared by Lakota and Algonquian elders, honoring relationship, reciprocity and responsibility to the living world.

  4. 04 · The heart

    Christian mysticism

    The teachings of archetypes, power, grace, prayer, sacred love and divine union.

  5. 05 · Energy & presence

    Reiki mastery

    The practice of compassionate presence, energetic awareness and healing touch.

  6. 06 · Balance & inner awareness

    Eastern philosophy

    Indian yogic traditions, Chinese philosophy, Vinyasa and Yin Yoga, meditation, Taoist wisdom and the cultivation of presence.

  7. 07 · The cosmos

    Evolutionary astrology

    Exploring the soul’s unfolding, higher consciousness and our relationship with the greater cycles of life.

Contact

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Perhaps coming home to the Self is not about recovering who we were before everything happened.

Perhaps it is about finally making room for who we have become through everything that happened.

And allowing that person the freedom to live.