Mykia Beal

I attribute my success to my suffering and being disconnected from self. The foundation of love that I was taught was distorted. As a little girl, I learned that I had to protect myself and keep myself safe because no one else would. I was always managing the environment and waiting for the worst thing, preparing for the worst thing to happen. I reached a point in my life where I wasn't happy - I was living in gorgeous places like Breckenridge and San Diego, in a beautiful relationship, but I couldn't feel joy. I couldn't look at a flower and feel happy or go to the beach and feel connected because my nervous system didn't know peace, it just knew chaos. That suffering, that disconnection from self, became the foundation for everything I do now. It showed me what was missing and gave me the ability to help others find what they're missing within themselves.

Follow whatever makes you happy. I was never really given traditional advice - I've always been a self-starter and my family jumped ship since I was a young age. But my mom always told me whatever makes you happy, that makes her happy. So the best career advice I've ever been given is to follow what makes you happy.

Follow your heart and lean into what excites you most, and lean away from what doesn't. I think following your excitement and moving toward what truly resonates with you, while moving away from what doesn't feel right, is the most important guidance I can offer.

The biggest challenge for me is bringing forward something that isn't mainstream yet. This level of work isn't something that people are familiar with - no one was ever taught to be with their emotions safely. So to start talking about how we can create safety in the body to feel your emotions is the last thing anyone wants to do. The most challenging part is bringing awareness and creating a sense of safety online through ads so that people can lean into my service and feel safe to know that I've got them, that they're held and supported. People have tried therapy, talk therapy, treatments, and medicine, and they still find themselves in the same place. They've tried all these modalities, but the last place they're looking to search is within themselves, to stay consistent in the practice every single day versus going to something for a couple of days and coming back to the same life that created the problem.

Being an integral human, following your heart, speaking your truth, and living in alignment are really important to me. As someone who teaches this work, it's essential to be in connection with others who embody that same sense of value - people who are integral, heart-centered, truthful, and aligned.