There’s a particular presence to Kareena Glanville — poised, radiant, and impossibly grounded. This year’s Spiritual Leader of the Year, honoured by the 2025 Spiritual Leaders Awards International, is far from the cliché of the aloof mystic. She’s a woman who has walked through fire, near divorce, financial uncertainty, the quiet unravelling of identity and emerged incandescent.
Through her transformative movement, Reclaim Her, Kareena guides women — particularly those crossing the threshold of midlife, back to the parts of themselves they’ve long abandoned: their voice, sensuality, power, and purpose. Equal parts oracle, strategist, and soul midwife, her leadership is reshaping how the feminine rises in a world that’s finally ready to listen.
In this exclusive feature for OracleME, Kareena shares her journey of reclamation, the rituals that anchor her, and the vision she holds for a new era of spiritual leadership.
Q: You’ve called midlife “the most misunderstood initiation in a woman’s life.” What was the moment that cracked you open and what did your reclamation truly require?
A: Midlife is an incredible portal for initiation and transformation, partly because so many things converge at once. For me, it began in my body. I went from no headaches to three or four migraines a week, laid out in bed and forced to stop. My sleep changed.
My nervous system felt more sensitive. I could no longer override my needs.
At the same time, I felt a rising intolerance for anything that was out of alignment. Things I used to carry with patience and resilience suddenly had no place in my life. And underneath all of it was this insistent knowing: I will not die with my song left unsung. There is sacred work I am here to do, and I cannot abandon it.
So it wasn’t one single moment that cracked me open but an onslaught of them, one after another, until I was more open than I had ever been. My reclamation has required a deep and continuous love for myself — for my changing body, my rising desire to serve, my refusal to serve others at the cost of my own soul. It has asked me to honour the life I have lived, and to meet the unfolding path ahead with courage, even when I cannot see the outcome.
It is powerful and vulnerable, scary and exhilarating, and it humbles me daily. But it is also the most honest I have ever been with myself.
Q:. Your brand, Reclaim Her, feels like a movement wrapped in velvet and fire. How did you create an offering that is both so fiercely personal and widely universal?
A: What a beautiful description of Reclaim Her — velvet and fire. I created Reclaim Her with my sister Sophie, and it is fiercely personal because both of us have walked through our own fires. We know what it is to have life fall apart, to feel like you are the only one struggling, and to slowly find your way back.
Along the way, I learned some life-altering things — how to consciously use intuition to make aligned choices, how I had abandoned my spirituality (rather than Spirit abandoning me), and how to return to a deep faith that I am held. I discovered that the answers I was seeking weren’t out there in someone else’s voice or method. They were within me. No one is coming to save me or build the life I long for. That is my sacred responsibility and my joy.
I believe that is the universal journey for women. Reclaim Her is simply the gathering place for it. It is about coming home to ourselves, learning to trust our path, deepening into our innate feminine gifts of intuition and spirituality, and then bravely, fiercely claiming our path — not for anyone else, but for ourselves. Because our lives, our truth, and our desires matter.
When one woman reclaims herself, everyone around her feels it. That is the movement.
Q: So many women are spiritually attuned but stuck in fear around visibility. What would you say to the woman who knows she’s meant for more, but doesn’t yet believe it?
A: This is a topic I know intimately. My biggest growth edge has been visibility — the tension between who I feel called to become and the fear of being fully seen as myself.
I have done a lot of inner work here. Much of it has been holding the hand of my inner little girl, who is still terrified that it might not be safe to be who she really is in the world. Some days it feels easy. Other days I can feel every old story rise up. It is a daily practice for me.
To the woman who knows she is meant for more but doesn’t yet believe it, I would say this: trust who you know you are in your heart more than you trust the fearful voice in your head. Our deepest regrets grow in the places where we give fear more authority than our truth.
And please, do it with love. Be tender with yourself. There will be days you are brave and visible, and days your fears feel louder. That doesn’t mean you are failing. It means you are human.
Most of all, love yourself enough to share who you are with the world anyway. I can almost guarantee that what your heart wants is more love, more beauty, and more good for our world. We need that. And you are worth listening to.
Q: Your path blends soulful practice with razor-sharp intuition around business and branding. Do you see this as part of the divine feminine rising — and how do you navigate that duality?
A: Absolutely, I see this as part of the divine feminine rising. I believe women are powerful changemakers for this and the next generation. For us to rise in a way that truly transforms the world, we need both — the feminine and the masculine in healthy relationship.
To me, the feminine holds intuition, visioning, receiving, community, connection, and the capacity to sit in the mystery. The masculine brings structure, action, determination, and the willingness to move forward. When either is out of balance, we veer off track. The feminine without the masculine can become endless dreaming with no movement. The masculine without the feminine can become constant doing with no heart-centred direction.
The magic happens in the weaving. That is where I see the feminine rising — when we honour our inner guidance, hold a clear aligned vision, and then take inspired action from that place.
In my own life and businesses, that looks like creating space to listen first. I connect through writing, journalling, spirit writing, walking, being in nature. I ask for guidance. And then I act. I have two businesses, and we run both intuitively. I will be honest: the balance is not always easy. Life is full, and it is tempting to prioritise the to-do list over spiritual practice.
The true power of feminine leadership, for me, comes from holding myself accountable to both — returning to my guidance, checking that my vision still feels true, and then taking the next brave, aligned step.
Q: Let’s talk beauty. What rituals — spiritual or sensual — are non-negotiables in your day-to-day life?
A: For me, beauty begins with Spirit. That is my non-negotiable. When I am connected to Spirit, I feel most myself, most luminous, most at home in my skin.
My primary rituals are simple and sacred: writing, being in nature, pulling oracle cards, walking, and holding space for the women in our Reclaimed community for midlife women. I do not need an elaborate two-hour routine every day, but I do need regular touchpoints where I come back to that quiet centre and remember who I am.
On a sensual level, I experience beauty in small, intentional moments of feeling — bare feet on the earth, a long walk in nature, immersing myself in a swimming hole or basking in silence, a cup of brewed sticky chai sipped slowly, a shower that becomes a clearing ritual at the end of the day.
I think of beauty less as appearance and more as an inner state: am I connected, am I present, am I being kind to myself and my body? When I am, that is when I feel most radiant.
Kareena Glanville is an award-winning midlife mentor and Spiritual Leader of the Year 2025. As co-founder of Reclaim Her, she guides women to rise into fulfilment, purpose and authentic leadership, redefining midlife as a powerful awakening.
