Ali (formerly Levine) Alison Jacaruso is a Christ-centered teacher, speaker, and faith-based healing mentor, and the founder of HIS Breath. Once a top-rated celebrity stylist in Los Angeles, Ali lived in relentless striving, performance, and outward success—until a traumatic birth and severe postpartum depression brought her to a breaking point that achievement, self-effort, and spirituality could not heal.

Raised in religion but disconnected from authentic relationship, Ali later became deeply entangled in New Age spirituality while searching for peace and restoration. In a moment of complete surrender, she cried out to God and experienced a life-changing encounter with Jesus Christ that transformed her faith, identity, and purpose.

Today, Ali teaches Christ-centered nervous system restoration, identity in Christ, and inner healing through The HIS Breath Method—Holy Spirit, Identity, and Surrender. Rooted in biblical truth, prayer, and the leading of the Holy Spirit, her work helps women move from striving and counterfeit peace into abiding rest, emotional healing, and true spiritual authority in Christ.

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Good morning, Ali Jakaruso.

I'm so glad to connect with you.

What part of the world are you in today?

So honored to connect with you as well.

I'm right outside of Nashville in Tennessee.

Excellent.

Well, again, thanks for connecting.

It's been intriguing researching who you are and what you represent.

You seem very vivacious is the word I would use.

If that is accurate, what converted you from using your vivaciousness all the way in Hollywood to now in Tennessee for what seems to be a passion for God?

Long story short, I was a wardrobe stylist, as you said, in Hollywood for 15 plus years.

And, you know, fashion has always been my passion.

I love fashion, love helping people feel good and dress well, had lots and lots of success with clients, you know, doing really well in red carpets and best dress and all these things.

But at some point in time, you know, in those years, I just realized that the outside was not filling me anymore.

And even though everything on paper and everything should have looked like, hey, she's got it all, there was a hole in me that just wouldn't fill.

And I didn't understand it.

And it wasn't until God and Jesus really encountered my life and ambushed me, really, and just changed me, completely transformed me from the inside out.

And I just can't help but be on fire for the Lord now, Angel.

I just, he's done such a radical work in me.

And my life looks completely different than I ever thought it would look.

But the peace that I have that shalom, the peace beyond understanding that he speaks about in the Bible, I have truly experienced.

And the love he has shown me is something I would have never, ever understood until I actually experienced it.

And so for that, I'm so grateful.

And I guess that's why you know, you see, like you say that vivaciousness, he's that on fire for the Lord, because it is a true fire.

And you know, he has made me new.

And even though I still love fashion, I have many passions.

My passion really is for my king for my Heavenly Father.

What's it been like transitioning from what would have been the place fashion would have had you to where you futuristically see yourself going to now?

Gosh, so vastly different, right?

For several years was my plans.

And I thought, you know, I'll be a top rated stylist.

And, you know, I will go all around the world.

I mean, I did go quite many places.

But you know, I will do this for the rest of my life.

Honestly, to be transparent, I thought I wouldn't have children.

I'm now a mother of three and extremely grateful.

I thought that I would just be focused on my career.

And God, of course, had other plans.

As he tells us, my ways are higher than your ways.

My thoughts are higher than your thoughts.

And that was something that kind of carried me through as I went through the transitions of it's not about you.

It's not about you know, what what you think it is and what you believe to be good.

I'm actually saving you from a lot of heartbreak and a lot of sabotage and toxicity that industry is incredible in many ways, and also extremely toxic and volatile in many ways.

And I really do believe he saved me.

And shortly after he saved me, I became pregnant with my first daughter and my world went upside down.

But I'm so grateful.

Now I'm a mom of three, I have two daughters and a son, seven, five and three and we married for 13 plus years to my husband, Justin.

And you know, to me, I thought I kind of bought into the lies where Hollywood tells you, you don't need to have a family, you don't need to have children, you can just work on work and work will fulfill you.

And I believe that for a moment.

And so now it's so drastically different that faith is at the forefront of everything.

Every decision is God, and my family, and my husband.

And though things may look, you know, very different on the outside, the inside of me is transformed.

Like I said, I've never had more peace.

And I trust God with my adventure and my journey.

You know, I still every day will say to him, what am I doing?

Sometimes, you know, even last night, I was up late worshiping.

And I said, Who am I God, like, this is just, I don't know who this is.

And he said, You're my daughter.

And he said, You realize your riches are in heaven, you, you seek a relationship with me, you'd rather abide in me than worry about what the world has.

And for that, I will always bless you.

And I really believe that.

How have your friends been impacted by your decision?

That's a good question.

You know, I'll be transparent.

I had a lot of fall off.

A lot of Hollywood, a lot of Hollywood fell off, a lot of transitioning with friendships.

But those who have loved me at the core, have stuck around, even if they don't understand it, even if they tell me at times, I'm crazy.

And what am I doing?

You know, it's kind of been beautiful to watch how God works, because I was that person, too.

You know, I didn't have a relationship with God, Jesus, I was raised in religion, half Catholic, half Jewish for my mom, my dad, so I understand it.

And I just keep showing them so much love.

And I've had some people get baptized and tell me that I was part of their journey.

I've had some people who are on their journey now tell me they're just starting to seek a real relationship with him and need him.

And I believe God is using me for such a time as this with the friends who are still here.

And it's been really amazing to to see the unbelievers that have found me on social media and watched my walk and what I've gone through to become new friends and community in Christ and want to actually receive what the Lord has done for me.

Having a past reference point of a Catholic and a Jewish home, what's the new reference for Ali today?

I tell my children this every day.

It is a Christ centered relationship with God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

I don't want anyone to feel in my home that there is a ritual or a certain practice or something that has to happen.

It is truly just an indwelling of the Holy Spirit in us and understanding how close he is, how much he loves us and wants a relationship with us and how that radically transforms our lives.

So I tell my children all the time, just speak to him.

He wants a relationship with you.

I wish someone would have said that to me years ago and said I was told I had to go to a building.

I have to be in front of a priest.

I have to be a deacon.

I have to constantly be repenting.

And though repentance has its place, God gives us so much grace and he just wants a relationship.

He just wants us to go to him every day and say, good morning, God.

Good morning, Jesus.

Thanks for waking me up.

What do you have for me today?

You know, and just literally go to him for everything.

He wants to be a part of every bit of our lives.

And so that is what I work on for myself and what I teach for my children.

In one of your videos, I saw you were talking about Deuteronomy and then you went off in not a rant, but a soliloquy of sentences.

Yeah.

But then you stopped, you stopped and you took a breath and you said, Holy Spirit, breathe on this word.

I found that so intriguing.

How important is it for us to take that breath?

Oh, yes.

Thank you for that.

Well, his pressure walk, his breath has changed my life.

It is so important, especially in today's world where we are always on the go.

We are doing so much.

That one breath from him, that beautiful, deep inhale and deep exhale calms, first off, science-wise, our nervous system, which is for many of us why we operate the way we do in fight or flight, which is not the way God created us.

Our parasympathetic nervous system, which is our rest and digest state, is the way he created us when we came into this world and we became fast-paced and numbed out and all the things went around us when we became in the fight or fight, the sympathetic.

We don't make good decisions from that place.

We operate in reaction instead of response.

We operate in emotion and five senses instead of in rest in him.

And he tells us to rest in him.

He says, if you are weary, come to me.

I will give you rest in Matthew.

That is part of our breath, that fresh Ruach.

Ruach breath also means spirit.

It means life.

It has so many meanings in the Bible.

So if we want this fresh rejuvenation, this restoration, it's so important that every moment that we take that moment for that breath.

And he truly healed my nervous system and changed my life and delivered me of so much that I was going through for many years through his breath, which is why I teach it, why I speak of it.

And especially when I give those prophetic words, I want to make sure it's always him and not me, that I'm not in the flesh, that when though I might be passionate, I might be excited about what I'm about to release, that the Holy Spirit is literally indwelled and speaking through me.

And he breathes on that word that every single person that is listening to the sound of my voice is not hearing me, but receiving the Holy Spirit in that breath.

Tell me how Justin has been impacted by the rebirth of you.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

It's been quite a shift in our marriage and in a beautiful way.

You know, there's been a lot of obviously healing in many layers.

He also was raised not Jewish, but Catholic.

So he's also been on a new journey of a relationship with God and what that looks like.

We joined a church as a family when I got baptized here in Tennessee in 2024, something that I never, ever thought I'd do, but the Lord called me to do it.

And he was really, really impressed and really proud of me.

He was honestly taken back, but really has been incredible to watch my walk.

And, you know, it's a journey and there are days where he doesn't understand it and he doesn't understand how consecrated I am and how sometimes I go on these, I just came off a 21 day fast and he's like, what are you doing?

You know, it's a true obedience to the Lord.

And some days it's hard, you know, in the flesh it's hard, but at the end of the day, God has been so faithful.

He's restored so much in our marriage and so much healing.

And it's really just been beautiful to watch our kids start to walk it out.

Our oldest daughter got baptized last year and our other children have said they want to also do the same.

And so I just, you know, look forward to each of my family receiving that true relationship with God because he has truly transformed my life.

I mean, it makes me so teary eyed what he has done and what he continues to do.

He's just so good.

Amazing audience, if you're listening and Ali's voice has captured you and you want to connect with her, there are links in the show notes.

You can definitely reach out Ali, the activator, right on Instagram.

You know, what I would love to know before we leave is if you had one piece of advice for the younger version of yourself, given who you are today, what would you tell that person?

Oh yeah.

Stop worrying about what the world thinks.

Stop worrying about what the world wants.

Stop worrying about the perspective of you.

How are you going to look?

How many likes?

What is it?

You know, what is the title of you?

That was the first thing the Lord stripped me of.

He said, I'm going to take all these titles away from you because you need to know your identity in Christ.

Know who you are as a child of the most high God.

It will fulfill you.

It will give you instruction.

It will give you divine guidance and you will never, ever lose the confidence and the strength that you are searching for because you have it in him.

When we seek in the world and we seek our flesh, that is what fulfills us and that is what makes us fall every single time.

Aliyah Jakarusa, this has been a great pleasure.

One I treasure.

I do wish you all the best on your journey ahead as you impact lives and definitely bring others to Jesus Christ.

Again, a pleasure.

I treasure.

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