We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Stephanie Fleitas. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Stephanie below.

Stephanie, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. We’d love to hear about the things you feel your parents did right and how those things have impacted your career and life.

My mom has always been a provider. Her love language wasn’t emotional expression or deep conversations; it was showing up, making sure I had what I needed, and supporting me in the best way she knew how. For a long time, I focused on what was missing; our struggles with communication, the emotional depth I longed for but didn’t receive in the way I needed. But now, looking back, I can see what was always there:

She gave me freedom—to explore, to fall, to figure things out on my own. She never tried to dim my light. Even when she didn’t fully understand my choices, she still supported them. She never held me back from taking risks or making unconventional decisions; in her own way, she always believed in me.

Her strength and resilience were constant. She carried a lot, and while she may not have been emotionally expressive, she never withheld her presence. She showed her love through action; through provision, through ensuring I was taken care of, through always being there when I needed her. And now, I recognize that her support was a quiet, unwavering force in my life.

At the time, I didn’t fully see it. I was caught up in what we lacked in emotional connection, in how difficult our communication was. But I realize now that her way of loving me shaped me in ways I never acknowledged before.

Because she wasn’t overly involved in guiding my emotions, I had to develop emotional intelligence on my own. I had to learn how to sit with myself, understand my feelings, and navigate my inner world without external validation. And that, in turn, built my character, my resilience, and my depth.

Now, I can hold both truths at once; she wasn’t everything I needed, but she was everything she knew how to be. And for that, I am deeply grateful.

Stephanie, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

The best way I can describe what I do is a facilitator of embodied energy awareness. I guide individuals into a deeper connection with their bodies, energy, and innate intelligence. My work is rooted in the understanding that true transformation happens when we move beyond the mind and fully inhabit our bodies.

About Me & My Work

There was a time when I lived almost entirely in my mind. I tried to understand my experiences rather than feel them; always searching for meaning, validation, or confirmation outside myself. This wasn’t just a pattern it was how I had survived. The mind was my protector, my control mechanism, my way of making sense of a world that often felt overwhelming.

Then, something happened. My body woke up before my mind was ready to surrender. My energy began activating in ways I didn’t fully understand, and though my body knew exactly what it was doing, my mind kept interfering; analyzing, controlling, trying to grasp what couldn’t be grasped through thought alone.

When Kundalini rises in a mind that is disconnected from the body, it can lead to deep fragmentation and ungroundedness. Instead of surrendering to the process, I did what so many of us do; I looked for understanding outside of myself. I wasn’t drawn to traditional teachers or books, but rather, I sought validation through external reflections; through my activations; through the way others perceived and responded to me. I became obsessed with sharing my experiences not from pure expression, but as a way to try and grasp myself externally.

But the more I looked outward, the more ungrounded I became.

I was trying to navigate an awakening through the very part of me that needed to dissolve the mind.

My journey has been one of deep remembrance; of returning home to my body. I learned that true integration isn’t about understanding it’s about being. It’s about allowing the body’s intelligence to lead; about releasing the need to control; about trusting the movement of life force energy rather than resisting it.

This is the foundation of my work.

I now hold space for others to experience the intelligence of their own energy; to release the barriers of control; to learn how to truly trust the body’s wisdom. My work is about embodiment, sovereignty, and the art of deep surrender.

I guide people through conscious movement, sound, breath, and energy awareness; creating spaces where they can unravel, express, and receive without interference from the mind. Whether through 1:1 mentorship, energy sessions, or embodiment containers, my intention is always the same:

To help you experience yourself more deeply.
To create spaces where you feel safe to surrender.
To support you in reclaiming the natural intelligence of your body.

Because at the core of it all, you are the process; you are the intelligence; you are the key. My role is simply to help you
remember.

What Sets My Work Apart

In a world where spirituality has become intellectualized, commercialized, and overcomplicated, my work is about returning to the organic intelligence of the body.

This isn’t about more knowledge; it’s about direct experience.

What I offer is not another system, method, or external modality; it’s a space for you to attune to yourself.

I guide people out of the mental realm and into their bodies.
I hold containers where you can unravel, express, and trust your own energy.
I help you reawaken the innate intelligence within you; beyond rigid structure; beyond “doing it right;” beyond seeking outside of yourself.

My approach is fluid, intuitive, and deeply experiential. It’s about remembering how to be with yourself; how to listen; how to allow life force energy to move through you naturally.

This isn’t just energy work; it’s a reclamation of your sovereignty.

Whether you work with me 1:1, through embodiment practices, or within a community space, you won’t be learning my method you’ll be remembering your own.

Because at the end of the day, your body already knows; your energy already knows; you are the process. My role is simply to guide you back to it.

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

Resilience is often forged in the moments when life as you know it falls apart. For me, that moment came when I left my marriage.

I had been married for nearly five years and was a mother to a four-year-old when I made the decision to walk away. At the time, I didn’t realize just how disconnected I had become—from my body, my heart, and my own sense of self. I had spent years prioritizing my role as a wife and mother, slowly losing touch with who I was outside of those identities.

I hadn’t worked in years. I had no financial autonomy. I was carrying unprocessed grief, fear, and uncertainty; not just from my marriage, but from all the ways I had abandoned myself long before it. But leaving wasn’t the hardest part. What I wasn’t prepared for was what came next.

Shortly after my divorce, I experienced a Kundalini awakening; an activation of my life force energy that I hadn’t been seeking or even understood at the time. It wasn’t a peaceful spiritual expansion; it was wild, overwhelming, and completely ungrounding. My energy surged in ways I couldn’t control, amplifying emotions I had never fully faced. My mind, already consumed with navigating divorce, went into overdrive trying to make sense of something that couldn’t be understood through thought alone.

At the same time, I was trying to rebuild my life from nothing. I was suddenly on my own; figuring out how to support myself financially, navigating co-parenting, and trying to establish stability when everything inside me felt unstable. The more I tried to manage my awakening through the mind, the more fragmented I became. The more I looked for answers outside of myself, the more disconnected I felt.

At the peak of this unraveling, I lost everything that had once anchored me; relationships, stability, all my money, and even my role as a mother in the traditional sense. My identity was stripped down to nothing. I had no choice but to sit with myself, to surrender in a way I never had before.

It wasn’t a graceful surrender; it was raw, painful, and full of resistance. But it was in that breaking open that something new emerged.

Resilience wasn’t about forcing my way through it. It wasn’t about “figuring it out.” It was about learning to trust life again to trust my energy, my body, and the intelligence that was guiding me even when I couldn’t see the full picture.

And here’s the thing: choosing yourself in moments where everything is unclear is one of the hardest things you can do. There’s a lot of judgment when you trust an inner knowing that hasn’t fully revealed itself yet. To others, your choices may seem irrational, reckless, or even wrong. But when you’re being guided by something deeper than logic when something inside of you is pulling you inward you have to trust that even when no one else can see it, that light within you is real.

Coming home to yourself is not a neat, linear process. It’s often messy especially when your journey is unfolding in front of others, open for them to witness, judge, or misunderstand. And when that happens, resilience isn’t about proving yourself or forcing others to understand.

Resilience is staying anchored in your knowing when everything outside of you questions it. It’s about choosing yourself in moments where the path ahead isn’t clear, where you’re just following the smallest spark inside of you. It’s about trusting that even when you don’t have the full picture, your body, your essence, your deepest truth already knows the way.

Instead of trying to hold onto control, I leaned into embodiment. I committed to feeling, rather than analyzing. I committed to being in my body, rather than trying to escape it. And in doing so, I reclaimed a sense of sovereignty I never knew existed.

That journey of surrender and self-trust is what allows me to guide others today. Not from a place of teaching, but from lived experience. Because I know what it’s like to feel completely ungrounded, to lose yourself in the mind, and to spiral in uncertainty. And I also know what it takes to come back home to yourself.

Resilience, to me, is not about pushing through it’s about choosing to trust yourself in the moments when everything feels uncertain. It’s about remembering that you already hold the wisdom, and that your body, your essence, will always guide you home if you let it.

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

One of the biggest lessons I had to unlearn was that self-sacrifice is not the same as love.

For much of my life, I believed that to love deeply meant to give endlessly; even at the cost of myself. I thought that being of service meant putting others before me, absorbing their pain, holding their burdens, and giving even when I had nothing left. I carried this pattern into every aspect of my life; my relationships, my work, my spiritual path.

At first, it felt noble. It felt like love. But over time, I began to see the deeper truth: self-sacrifice is not love; it is a distortion of love.

This realization didn’t come easily. It came through exhaustion, through burnout, through moments where I had given so much of myself that there was nothing left for me. It came through relationships where I overextended, thinking I was helping, when really I was enabling. It came through my spiritual journey, where I felt I had to constantly prove my devotion through suffering.

The turning point was when I began to ask myself: If I deplete myself in the name of love, is that truly love? If I abandon myself to hold someone else up, how is that sacred?

I had to unlearn the belief that love requires sacrifice and replace it with a deeper understanding: Love is not depletion; love is wholeness. True love, whether in relationships, in service, or within ourselves—comes from a place of fullness, not martyrdom. It does not ask us to betray ourselves; it calls us into deeper integrity with who we are.

Now, everything I do comes from a foundation of sovereignty. I no longer give from depletion, nor do I hold the belief that I have to suffer to be worthy of love. Instead, I have learned that the greatest gift I can offer others is my own wholeness.

Because love, true love, does not require you to abandon yourself. It invites you to stand fully in yourself. And from that place, love expands effortlessly.

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