Leide Lessa, CSB
Leide Lessa is a multilingual educator, spiritual practitioner, and teacher whose life and career span across education, international leadership, and decades of healing ministry. Before stepping fully into spiritual healing, she studied languages and literature across Austria, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Brazil, eventually completing her studies at the University of São Paulo. She went on to found and operate her own language institute in Brazil for about 10 years, where she taught students ranging from children to business professionals. Her programs were highly tailored, often designed for executives and families relocating internationally who needed practical language skills for real-world transitions within a short timeframe.
Her early professional life was deeply rooted in education, communication, and cross-cultural leadership, but her spiritual foundation shaped an equally important calling. Raised in a faith-centered family and influenced by early experiences of prayer and healing within her home, Lessa began receiving requests to pray for others from teachers, colleagues, and members of her church community. Over time, this evolved into a formal spiritual path that led her to work for a church in Boston for 23 years, where she served in teaching, lecturing, translation, media leadership, and international outreach. During this period, she also worked extensively across multilingual platforms, creating and delivering content in several languages and supporting global audiences through education and spiritual communication.
In 2022, she relocated to Florida, where she continues her full-time work as a spiritual healer, supporting individuals through prayer, counseling, and faith-based guidance focused on emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. Her practice is rooted in compassion, resilience, and the belief in transformative healing through spiritual understanding. Drawing on decades of international experience, she now blends her background in languages, leadership, and teaching with her healing ministry to serve people from diverse cultural and personal backgrounds. Today, she remains dedicated to helping others find peace, strength, and clarity while continuing to expand her work in spiritual education and metaphysical understanding.
• Christian Science Teacher
• Lecturer (8 years)
• Chaplain at Suffolk County Jail
• Boston (8 years volunteer)
• Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
English & Portuguese languages & literature
• University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Tomsatz und Komposition
• Wiener Universität
Dolmetcher und Übersetzer
• USP - Universidade de São Paulo
German & Spanish — languages & literature. Undergraduate and Graduate Schools
• University of Vienna / SUNY / University of Sao Paulo
Languages and Literature, German and Spanish
• Christian Science Church
• Chaplain at Suffolk County Jail in Boston (8 years volunteer)
• Lectured in the Philippines mountains to over 220 people
• Provides free prayer services to majority of clients (only 1-3 out of 10-12 daily clients pay)
What do you attribute your success to?
First of all, to God, because I see God as mind and love. The Bible has a lot of pros and cons, and I like to take the pros of the Bible. Jesus' teachings are terrific, because he really taught us to love each other, to help each other, and to help those who are in despair, to always have compassion. Jesus didn't have a religion, he was a revolutionary in his time. I would say that everything that I achieved was really because of the teachings of the Bible and the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy, who is the founder of Christian Science, my religion. Christian Science taught me to read the Bible and to see the world in a metaphysical way, so in a way that goes beyond physics. I am a very resilient person. I never give up, and I think nobody should ever give up. I attribute that resilience to my faith and to the understanding that this faith gives me, that we have to see things beyond the appearance.
What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Never give up. It might be hard, but the rewards that you get by seeing people whose lives have changed, it's unforgettable. It's something special. So that's why I would say to anyone who would like either to enter into this field, or any field of volunteering, helping, do that, because the world needs more love. And love is what really heals. When somebody feels loved, they have a way of going forward. And I think when we find true love, real love, substantial love, a love that is divine, we know that this love is infinite. So then we feed ourselves with this infinite love, and our source will never stop. We will always find more love, more compassion to give to others. And when you give, you get back. Just love, and you will be loved.
What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
I think the big challenge in my field is to make a living, because in a way, very few people see prayer as something that you have to pay, or that you can pay. Even though those who are conscious that this is my profession, and those who can, they pay. But as I mentioned, I do a lot of volunteer work, so I see my job today as volunteer work more than anything. For instance, I help between 10 to 12 people a day, and from those, about between 1 and 3 pay me. And what I make is not enough for me to make a living. The opportunities that I see is that the world really needs more help, especially now with mental health. During the time that I was lecturing from 2012 until 2020, the World Organization of Health said there were about 125 million people suffering from depression or mental disorder. I looked 2 weeks ago at the same website, and now they are saying that about a billion people are suffering from some kind of mental issue. They attribute that to the pandemic and to other things. We have now 3 huge wars going on, and there are so many problems. We have about 44 million Hispanics that are living with fear every day. I think there are a lot of things going on, and because I speak fluently four languages and know other two, I want to share my knowledge in other languages in a broader way. I think there are great opportunities out there to help people.