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Fabiana Higa is a former midwife, systemic therapist, writer, and ikigai mentor based in Australia. Through her books and mentoring programs, she has inspired thousands of people to explore their life purpose, authenticity, and the freedom to be themselves. Her work integrates Taoist and Zen wisdom, embodiment practices and, family constellations tools to help people unlock their dreams, overcome emotional blockages, and open the way to a fully lived life.

She is the author of the literary oracle Living My Ikigai , a bestselling source of inspiration and self-discovery for readers around the world. In her classes and mentoring programs, Fabiana shares the wisdom, tools, and insights gained from decades of witnessing lives unfold in beautiful and meaningful ways. Rooted in lived experience, her teaching invites people to embrace their unique path with courage, gentleness, and presence.

My first contact with self-knowledge was in 1998, during my university years when I had to present a seminar. I chose the book The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra. At the end of my presentation, I guided my classmates through a creative visualization. That experience felt like a doorway. Soon after, I became involved in social projects, working alongside women leaders who deeply inspired me. 

Like a pilgrim, after traveling to India, my life took its first major turn. Later, after coming to Okinawa, the land of my ancestors, I felt my life took another profound turn.

Along the way, I integrated my experiences as a therapist, a midwife, and a mother. I lived in many different regions of Brazil, from north to south, and worked in a wide variety of roles. Yet the thread that connects all of them is the privilege of witnessing lives being born and transformed.

I had a core question about the meaning of life, and it began to unfold when I started weaving all the threads of my journey together;  art, therapy, birth, and purpose, integrating my gifts to respond to what each moment called for. My Ikigai.  The thread that unites all these decades is the care for LIFE: being a witness and a facilitator of transformational processes. I published my first book, and from that point, my purpose continued to expand, leading me to new paths as a speaker and Ikigai mentor.

Today, my deepest purpose and commitment is to facilitate births,  whether that’s a project, a dream, a life-changing event, a baby, or the inner peace that comes from fully being who we truly are.