Biography
From Denial to Responsibility: A Journey to Empowerment
Gabriela Popescu is an entrepreneur, best selling author, and spiritual mentor whose work bridges holistic healing, personal empowerment, and embodied leadership. She is the author of From Chaos to Harmony: Reclaim Your Sovereignty – From Self-Betrayal to Wholeness, a transformative guide for adults ready to break free from survival patterns and reclaim emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual alignment.
Her life and work are shaped by her relentless curiosity and her ability to identify the root causes of stagnation, both within herself and others. Gabriela is known for translating deep inner work into practical, lasting change, empowering individuals to cultivate fulfilling relationships, grounded success, and sustainable well-being across all areas of life.
From a young age, Gabriela was a classic overachiever—immersed in ballet, piano, opera, languages, and martial arts while growing up in Romania. Her childhood was shaped by a deep love of learning, studying English and French by second grade. But when her father passed away in her early teens and she later moved to the United States, her life took a sharp turn.
In college, grief and disconnection sent her spiraling into destructive patterns—anger, drinking, smoking, and ultimately a toxic relationship marked by daily threats and abuse. That chapter nearly broke her. Yet, rock bottom became her turning point. With nothing left to lose, she found the courage to leave—and discovered Reiki. What began as a lifeline became the doorway to her healing and transformation.
For over a decade since, Gabriela has devoted herself to understanding the four bodies—physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual—learning how true empowerment comes from harmony across them all. Her journey from surviving to thriving has made her not just a practitioner, but a guide for others navigating their own chaos.
Today, Gabriela is a SOUL Path Practitioner and Spiritual Mentor, founder of Phoenix Medicine, writer, podcast host, and speaker. She’s passionate about creating spaces where women reclaim their power, heal deeply, and rise together in sisterhood. Her voice is both fierce and compassionate, born from experience and dedicated to reminding others that no matter how lost you feel—you can come home to yourself.
Phoenix Medicine
Holistic Transformation for Authentic Living and Lasting Empowerment
Phoenix Medicine is dedicated to empowering individuals, particularly those from single-parent households, to transcend self-doubt and embrace self-love, authentic expression, and fulfilling relationships. Founded by Gabriela Phoenix Popescu, a Holistic and Mindset Advisor, Phoenix Medicine combines traditional healing practices with modern techniques to support your journey toward complete wellness.
Gabriela's expertise and personal transformation journey uniquely position her to guide others. Phoenix Medicine offers a holistic path to wellness that includes:
- Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP): Rewiring thought patterns for positive life changes.
- Mental and Emotional Release® (MER): Releasing emotional blockages for profound healing.
- Energy Healing: Balancing your body's energy systems.
- Mindset Coaching: Building resilience and a growth mindset.
- Nutrition and Wellness Coaching: Aligning physical health with emotional and spiritual wellness.
Gabriela's approach is both nurturing and empowering, drawing on her extensive training in modalities such as Reiki, yoga, nutrition, NLP, MER, and Hypnosis. She understands the unique challenges faced by individuals from single-parent households and provides compassionate, tailored support to help you reclaim your innate wisdom and embrace a future marked by self-love, resilience, and profound personal growth.
Embark on your transformative journey with Phoenix Medicine and unlock your true potential. With Gabriela's guidance, you can turn your unique experiences into strengths, fostering a life of balance, empowerment, and fulfillment.
Gabriela Popescu is a sought after speaker known for her ability to bridge personal transformation, holistic wellness, and embodied leadership in a way that is grounded, practical, and deeply human. As a best selling author, entrepreneur, and spiritual mentor, she brings a unique perspective shaped by lived experience, rigorous self inquiry, and years of integrative practice.
Drawing from her work across the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies, Gabriela helps audiences understand why insight alone is not enough for lasting change and how true transformation occurs when the nervous system, beliefs, and behavior are brought into alignment. Her talks offer clarity without overwhelm and depth without abstraction, translating complex inner work into accessible, actionable understanding.
Gabriela frequently weaves in themes from her best selling book, From Chaos to Harmony: Reclaim Your Sovereignty, offering audiences practical frameworks for releasing outdated survival patterns, rebuilding self trust, and creating lives rooted in clarity, integrity, and sustainable well being.
Known for her calm presence, direct communication style, and ability to meet people where they are, Gabriela creates spaces that invite reflection, responsibility, and meaningful shift. Her talks resonate with individuals and organizations seeking depth, discernment, and a more integrated approach to leadership, wellness, and personal growth.
Topics Gabriela Covers
The Wealth and Wellness Connection: Aligning Prosperity with Purpose
How sustainable success is built when emotional regulation, physical well being, and inner alignment are prioritized alongside ambition.
How sustainable success is built when emotional regulation, physical well being, and inner alignment are prioritized alongside ambition.
Breaking Free from Limiting Beliefs: Reclaiming Self Trust
Practical tools for identifying and releasing internal patterns that quietly undermine confidence, clarity, and forward momentum.
Practical tools for identifying and releasing internal patterns that quietly undermine confidence, clarity, and forward momentum.
Holistic Healing in Leadership and Life
Why integrated mind body awareness leads to clearer decision making, stronger relationships, and more grounded leadership.
Why integrated mind body awareness leads to clearer decision making, stronger relationships, and more grounded leadership.
Reclaiming Wholeness Beyond Traditional Therapy
A compassionate, modern approach to healing that focuses on integration rather than reliving the past, particularly for adults from single parent homes.
A compassionate, modern approach to healing that focuses on integration rather than reliving the past, particularly for adults from single parent homes.
The Feminine Edge: Leading and Relating with Clarity and Integrity
How women can transform relationships, leadership dynamics, and self expression by working with their nervous system rather than against it.
How women can transform relationships, leadership dynamics, and self expression by working with their nervous system rather than against it.
From Chaos to Harmony: Reclaim Your Sovereignty
From Self-Betrayal to Wholeness
From Self-Betrayal to Wholeness
Gabriela Popescu is the best selling author of From Chaos to Harmony: Reclaim Your Sovereignty, a grounded and integrative guide for adults ready to move beyond survival patterns and reclaim emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual alignment.
Blending personal experience with practical insight, the book challenges outdated healing models and introduces a clear, embodied path back to self-trust, wholeness, and inner authority. Readers are guided to release self-betrayal, recalibrate their nervous system, and create a life rooted in clarity, integrity, and sustainable well-being.
From Chaos to Harmony has resonated with readers seeking depth without overwhelm, offering transformation that is practical, compassionate, and lasting.
REAL LIVES, REAL TRANSFORMATIONS
Cliff
In the few short months that we have worked together, I have noticed shifts in all aspects of my life. My anxiety is gone, and I have rediscovered parts of me that I forgot even existed. I am a better husband and father, I am more patient with myself, and I am so excited about the future that I can create now. Together with Gabriela we’ve removed so many of the roadblocks I had.
I highly recommend that everyone work with Gabriela. She will improve your life in ways that you couldn’t possibly imagine. Take the leap, invest in yourself, and let Gabriela guide you to your dream life!
Crys
The intervention process was remarkable, allowing me to rapidly release accumulated emotional baggage. The change was instant and profound. I emerged from the session feeling rejuvenated, with a newfound passion and energy. Gabriela also helped me set deeply ingrained goals, enabling me to confidently move toward a revitalized life.
Now, I feel incredibly alive, free, and motivated. If you're considering working with Gabriela, I highly recommend it. Her ability to empathize and her intuitive sense of when to push harder are invaluable. Engaging with her could very well be the rebirth you need.
Katie
After three months with Gabriela, my life has transformed. I've become more personable, radiating positivity, and I now have a clear vision of my academic and career objectives. The anxiety and paralysis that once hindered me have vanished, allowing me to approach tasks with new confidence and ease. This journey has been truly life-changing. If you're considering coaching or similar support, I wholeheartedly recommend it. Gabriela's guidance has not only realigned my emotional, mental, and spiritual state but has set me on a path to a future I once thought unattainable. I can't recommend her enough.
1. WHAT PERSONAL EXPERIENCES LED YOU TO PURSUE THIS PATH?
2. CAN YOU DESCRIBE A DEFINING MOMENT IN YOUR CAREER OR LIFE?
3. HOW DID YOU DECIDE IT WAS TIME TO TRANSITION FROM YOUR CURRENT JOB TO YOUR CURRENT PROFESSION?
4. WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO WRITE FROM CHAOS TO HARMONY, AND WHAT DO YOU HOPE READERS TO TAKE AWAY FROM IT?
5. WHAT'S ONE BOOK THAT CHANGED YOUR LIFE, AND WHY?
6. WHAT DO YOU DO IN YOUR FREE TIME THAT OTHERS MIGHT FIND SURPRISING OR INTERESTING?
7. WHAT DAILY PRACTICES DO YOU FOLLOW THAT SHIFT YOUR REALITY?
8. HOW DO YOU MANAGE STRESS WITH EVERYTHING GOING ON?
9. HOW DO YOU INTEGRATE YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE HUMAN BODY, ENERGY, AND VARIOUS MODALITIES TO EMPOWER YOUR CLIENTS?
10. HOW DO YOU HELP PEOPLE HEAL THEIR BODIES IN STRESSFUL ENVIRONMENTS?
11. HOW DO YOU STAY INSPIRED AND MOTIVATED DURING DIFFICULT TIMES?
12. IF YOU COULD HAVE DINNER WITH ANYONE, DEAD OR ALIVE, WHO WOULD IT BE AND WHY?
