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

Rebecca, appreciate you joining us today. We’d love to hear the story behind how you got your first job in field that you currently practice in.

My first job in this field came from inquiring about this particular alternative healing modality. I had laid down my full time job as a psychotherapist to work a mindless job at a local catering company, driving around and delivering corporate lunches after making the tea and lemonade in the morning. A dear friend was in town and I wanted to take her to a local artisan craft fair and specifically wanted her to see the work of someone I had known in the past who worked with kudzu to make beautiful basketry. Upon introducing them, he shared something that would forever change my course. I had been looking for something else to do for 8 months, and nothing was coming in. I didn’t want to work with people in the ways I had been trained, licensed, and schooled. He shared that he had sent his child for this work, with great and positive results. He said, “you’ve got to learn about this work…I can’t even explain it, but I thought of you and all your training and background and I think you’ll resonate.” Well, I had to look into it. All I knew was that it was some sort of ‘brain integration.’ I went to this small office and shared a little of this story and that I wanted to learn more. I signed up for 15 hours of work that way, buying a package. Laying on the treatment table at my very first session I said to the practitioner working with me, “I think I’m supposed to do this work.” He said in immediate response, “I believe we have room for you here.” Pursuing this, I asked if I could get some time with the owner to inquire further. Within the next two weeks I met with her and she shared more about the nuts and bolts of the process, the small company structure, and how I would fit well into the team. There was a training coming up in a couple months that would serve as a scaffold for me to on board, and feeling the call, that’s exactly what I did. My first training led to an open door to both come on staff, take more courses along the way, and learn from the team assembled who were ahead of me. It was like an apprenticeship and the career changing opportunity that offered a path I am still on today as my own business owner and entrepreneur. I spent the first 9 months of my career there, learning from the best (who I refer to as Yoda), and the business shifted gears structurally and interpersonally, and I was then out on my own and have had a full schedule ever since. It was truly a red carpet experience that I am forever grateful for.

Rebecca, 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?

I have had many important pieces converge and weave together to make my career(s) path all blend together in the work I am doing as a Specialized Energy Kinesiolgist. I was an educator for 11 years, holding a masters degree in “Two Year College – Health and Wellness.” This led to me teaching physical education and wellness, teaching pre-school to high school over the course of my tenure. I had rewritten all the curriculum and started a new softball program, coached a number of other sports through that time as a college athlete myself. The angle of teaching physical education got boring to me and I was looking to shift into something else after 6 years. I shared this with the administration and they created a new position for me as the dean of women, recognizing that I had solid rapport in the community with the kids and families, and was already naturally mentoring students at the high school level. I stepped into that role, taking on more high school elective course and curriculum development. The last 5 years of my career was spent in this role, which led me to pursuing my next line of work as a psychotherapist. Upon graduating with a masters in professional counseling, I worked with teens and their families, furthering my natural bent in the healing arts. I am trained in EMDR and sand tray EMDR therapy, and have offered services to children and adults alike. The side effects of this work on my body, however, were not sustainable and now that I understand energy more, secondary trauma (from hearing trauma stories) had a severe effect on my body. Holding space through talk therapy and trauma specific modalities required hearing the narrative, which is equivalent to the frequency of a virus in terms of energy. My body was holding this frequency inside of me, teased together with my own trauma, and I got to sick to continue. This is what led to me stepping back and asking the universe, “what else can I do?” Working at the local catering company with two masters degrees and 20+ years of experience was a humbling place to be. I literally made tea, lemonade, and salads each day for about 9 months before Specialized Energy Kinesiology dropped into my awareness. I’ve learned that prioritizing myself above all allows room for something else to emerge. In the discomfort of the unknown, there are potential unknowns that are coming right for me and sitting in that discomfort is always worth it. There is a lot to explore there, in the discomfort of the unknown, that has and continues to create forge a deep trust of unconditional provision from the universe that I am always taken care of.

As an educator, one of the things that I stepped into was this deep revelation to what it means to Just Be. I taught my classes from a socratic style, often allowing the students to guide the learning process rather than posturing myself as the expert. I personally believe that the best learning is truly remembering – remembering that everything is actually inside already and just needs to be remembered, witnessed, and often inspired by hearing another who truly serves as a mirror of self. The concept of just being is not new, but rather is as old as time. It’s ancient wisdom. Yet our world at large does not honor being, but rather doing. Labels of the false and/or ego self attached outside of oneself is what the world often champions and applauds. Truly, this is backwards or inverted. Outsourcing power is not the way through but rather keeps one chained to that external locus of control for continual feedback, which is victimization at it’s core. I share this because this is the name of my business – Just Be Wellness, LLC. This path within is truly the path that I have been on, taught from, and have desired to live by my whole adult life. I have been on a continual path of deconstructing all that had been ingrained upon me to live looking outward to someone, some thing, some institution, etc. to rescue, help, save, and ultimately give me feedback that I am “ok.” It always fell short, and continues to do so, when I look outward rather than inward.

The very nature of the work as a space holder and facilitator in the role of a Specialized Energy Kinesiolgist is offering the inward journey of mitigating stress that is held in the body through muscle testing as the biofeedback mechanism. Muscle testing is also an ancient tool backed by the fundamental reality of the universe that everything is energy. That energy holds a frequency and that is innately attached to consciousness, or information. I hold space for people to discover what their body is communicating, locating like a needle in a hay stack, what is the root stress that is creating this pattern of energy flow (or lack thereof) in the bio-field, the mind-body connection. This is a holistic alternative healing modality that honors the unique individual and what it means for them to just be. This theme in my life only continues to expand and grow, just as I do, offering a path back to roots of what it means to be oneself. All the answers are within and I have been trained to ask the questions, and listen, just as I did as a psychotherapist, but very different in terms of approach and release. I am forever grateful for this mirror experience as yet another layer of what it means to just be emerges through this special work day to day, person to person, each with their own unique energy signature.

Any advice for growing your clientele? What’s been most effective for you?

This work has been the loudest voice for growing my clientele. My clients out in the world are my most effective billboards. I do not market my work because I don’t need to. My business partner (the Universe) and I agreed that when people stop sharing then it will be time to pivot because I fundamentally do not believe in marketing myself. Once again, opposed to the world and the ways that they tell me to do my life and business is 100% reliance on the external to make it happen, to get that feedback and validation, to be seen. My own personal and profession life are one and the same. I do not live a compartmentalized life. I am my business and my business is who I am – it’s a reflection of who I am on the inside. The most profound marketing plan is when I am sitting everyday in meditation, connecting to the Universe within me and all around me. I have often sat in meditation for an hour or so and got up to see that I had several appointments booked or sometimes canceled during that time. I have learned to trust it all – all the ebbing and flowing is a part of the universal tides and connectivity of us all as humanity. If someone is called towards my little corner of that web, it is because they are meant to be there, or not. Surrender and non-attachment to outcomes or clients is the path I endeavor to walk because I believe to my core that it honors the unique and personalized journey of each soul that I have the honor of holding space with. My most effective strategy is through this very threshold of surrender, trust, and beingness.

Are there any books, videos, essays or other resources that have significantly impacted your management and entrepreneurial thinking and philosophy?

I have to attribute Dr. Joe Dispenza with furthering my just be journey, which is the backdrop of my business and lifestyle. It’s all one. His brain science research on humans who mediate and have a consistent practice of being, connecting in, and experiencing presence has truly informed all aspects of my life on the why I have been drawn to a just be lifestyle and business model. There are times and seasons for all things and that is not determined so much by me as it is a complex web of realities that are beyond me. If I’m ever called to shift out of the work I am currently doing, it will be because I am meant to emerge and expand towards something else. The unknown and unlimited potentials in the universe are part of the unlearning that I need in order to continue expanding into the highest potential of who I am, inside. My meditation practice is the foundation for this inward exploration, sitting with the Mind of God everyday, connecting in and being present. This presence practice serves as a mirror of exploring all those unlimited potentials because that field (the unified field, quantum, Mind of God, universe, etc.) is simply mirroring back to me, all my potential. In this way, I step into being the co-creating, self-sovereign being that I am at my core. It’s the core I am continually programmed to forget by the worlds systems that would prefer me looking outside of me, deferring to external to inform me as to who I am. I tapped out of this game a long time ago and will not look back, nor trade what I have come to cherish which is simply being.

Contact Info:

• Website: justbewellnessllc.com
• Instagram: @beccawineka

Image Credits
Alisha Silver Photography