About Phaedra
Phaedra Jade Star is a multi-dimensional Lifestyle coach, a fitness expert, a Reiki master, a healer, a Tantra Teacher and founder of Star Tantra. She is a professional dancer, performer, and actress. Her book, Falling Upward, shares her life journey to self-awareness.
Awakening 2009
Excerpts from an interview with Alan Verdegraal …
Alan: I’ve always wondered about your Awakening and how it affected you? I believe you once said it was in 2009.
Phaedra: Yes. Mostly, we have to fall on our asses pretty hard to the point where we’re just willing to give up everything. Nothing makes any sense anymore. That’s pretty consistent across the board. Every teacher I have ever had in my life had some kind of cataclysmic experience that left them absolutely distraught beyond repair. They were ready to die. They were just done.
Most of us get to places so horrible and painful, we don’t realize that’s the opportunity.
Life has just fucked you up. So, instead of wallowing in that, which is what most people do, you’ve got to rise. You get to recreate in that moment. The whole point of devastation is to recreate from nothing.
My son died in 2009 with a really freak anomaly that no one could figure out.
So, this was not just losing a child; it was losing a big part of myself.
I did the only thing that I could do, and that was to fall into my spirituality, which has never failed me.
Philosophy and Mission
Phaedra: I felt that the only reason I had ever gone through, what I got through, was that I had to be a bridge for men and women to find themselves.
We don’t remember who we are. We don’t even remember how to love each other. I was not given love as a child; that’s a legitimate truth. Love was withheld from me very often, and I am not that person at all! That led to another journey of who am I. Because I realized I wasn't like everyone else, and they weren’t, like me. That’s another conversation about Star Seeds. The reality is that a lot of us come and endure massive amounts of trauma, and horrific situations like this because we’re natural leaders. We have to have experience. Nobody is a leader without experience! Period! I don’t care how much book knowledge you have! Good for you, but that doesn’t do anything as far as knowing what it’s like to walk the Path.
I know what it’s like to lose children, to be beaten, to be raped, to be stabbed, to go hungry. I know what it’s like to be homeless. I know what it is like to be addicted. I know what it’s like to recover. I know what it’s like to be hopeful. I know what it’s like to find your power in places you never knew it existed. I know what it’s like to hear the voice of the great Divine inside my soul. And, I know what it’s like to be able to be a Miracle!
From the interview …
Falling Upward
An Autobiography by Phaedra Jade Star
Growing up in a home fraught with daily maltreatment and molestation Phaedra is a testament to the fortitude, courage and toughness of the human spirit. Having endured abuse from the young age of three through her teenage years she knows what it takes to heal.
As an adult Phaedra faced ill health from toxic breast implants and the many doctors who told her the situation was hopeless. Phaedra refused to believe her condition was incurable. With hard work, research, intuition, and sheer will Phaedra found a way. Through her knowledge of body movement, and embracing good nutrition and detox cleansing she healed her body.
Many people often descend into depression and addiction facing these kinds of challenges. Instead, Phaedra has chosen a path of lifetime growth, devouring information on health and well-being, personal improvement, meditation, and mastery of movement and fitness. Her passion is sharing the lessons from her life circumstances she has chosen to embrace, so everyone can benefit.
