We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Tal Margalit a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Tal, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today What was your school or training experience like? Share an anecdote or two that you feel illustrate important aspects or the overall nature of your schooling/training experience.

I never set out to do this work, and it found me in the middle of my deepest pain. My story begins through my own healing journey.

I was at a fork in the road: figure it out myself or say thank you and goodbye to this lifetime. I chose to try and stumbled upon a 4-day Integrative NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) Practitioner Certification. Growing up, I heard my mother talk about how NLP saved her and changed her perspective on life. Who was I to not try?

After completing that training and realizing the techniques I had intuitively used since childhood actually existed in the world, I decided to continue on to the Master Practitioner training. Little did I know it would coincide with one of the most challenging periods of my life.

By the time I arrived, I was holding immense pain: a war had broken out in my homeland and I had lost loved ones, seen others kidnapped, and watched friends fight for their lives. I was also grappling with debilitating physical pain caused by a growth in my uterus, endless obstacles to receiving the surgery I needed, and a lifetime of mystery illnesses as an extreme physical empath.

During the training, we learned how to facilitate Breakthrough Sessions using a blend of MER® (Mental and Emotional Release), NLP, and Hypnotherapy. These sessions strip down one area of life, dismantle the filters and learned behaviors we’ve carried, and rebuild from a place of truth. As part of the training, we had to experience this process ourselves.

With everything going on, I chose to focus on my physical health. It was one of the hardest 8 hours I’ve ever endured. I remember clinging sideways to a chair, feeling like my body was being ripped apart and painfully rebuilt. But at the end of it, I felt completely weightless. Like a new energy had been breathed into me.

When I returned home, my sister took one look at me and said, “Woah. You’re different. What happened? I want that.” It was the greatest compliment I could receive after being labeled the “Problem Child” for so long.

This experience shifted everything. It became my key to a new and exciting life, and set me on the path of helping others strip away the pressures and filters of life, so they can embody their truest selves.

Tal, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

Looking back at my earliest years, I should have known I’d end up here. Through my training, it became clear just how much I knew back then, and how life’s noise had buried it. That is, until I chose to remember.

My work is devoted to helping people remember what has always been within them, stir what has been quieted, and awaken into the life they were always meant to live.

Like others in my field, I can go ahead and list my titles, but those titles only tell part of the story. In practice, I help people lose the identity they built around their pain, their loss, their confusion. Their past. I guide them in releasing the emotional weight they’ve been carrying, regulating their nervous systems, and reconnecting with the wisdom, ease, and wholeness already living inside them.

My offerings reflect this journey. They range from Breakthrough Sessions, immersive, life-shifting 1:1 experiences that strip away filters and limiting beliefs, to hypnosis journeys like “Journeying Through Lifetimes” or “Rewriting the Script,” where clients explore past lives or forgotten layers of their stories and create new ones with intention. I also offer energy-based sessions like “The Physical Blueprint,” which blends intuition and bodywork to help people release stored pain and unlock their natural healing abilities.

I’ve seen people walk into a breakthrough session carrying decades of grief and leave feeling lighter, freer, and ready to step into their next chapter.

One client told me after a session:
“It’s like I met myself for the first time in years. I am able to breathe.”

In addition to private work, I bring these teachings to wellness studios, retreats, and corporate spaces. Whether guiding a room through hypnosis at Scalp Sanctuary, leading meditations and stress management techniques for corporate teams at MedPoint, or offering immersive journeys at Artha, my intention is always the same: to create a safe, sacred space where people can return to themselves and feel held. One studio owner described it perfectly: “Tal doesn’t just teach or guide — she transforms the entire energy of the room.”

What sets me apart is simple: I don’t fix people. I don’t believe they are broken. My work is about walking beside them as they remember who they truly are.

If there’s one thing I want readers to know, it’s this: everything you are seeking is already within you. My role is to help you awaken it.

Oh! And for those who like to know the titles:
-Master Practitioner of Hypnosis
-Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
-Master Practitioner of Mental and Emotional Release (MER®)
-Huna Level 1
-Reiki
-Mediation
-Intuitive

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

It was a beautiful Los Angeles day in June. The day of my first big event: a spring wellness retreat for women, hosted by CorexChristine and BrandyxArmstrong. They had asked me to lead a hypnosis for inner strength and peace. Everything could have gone wrong…and yet, it went so right.

Here’s what I walked into: I was a last‑minute addition. Most of the attendees weren’t familiar with hypnosis and were in the age group likely to hold a negative connotation of it. That morning, it unexpectedly rained…not ideal when you need everyone to lay down comfortably. I reminded myself: these are all things we can overcome. I trust my grounded energy, and I knew I could help them trust me, too. By my time slot, the sun was blazing, the grass had dried, and the women had just finished an intense workout. Showtime.

Then, as I began, everything got louder: planes soaring overhead, birds squabbling, lawnmowers roaring. Even the music stopped working. I felt the group’s energy tighten. So I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and did what I know to do. Leaned into my order amidst the chaos and delivered on my word. And it worked. The responses after had me smiling so hard my cheeks hurt.

One participant told me: “I’ve never been able to access memories from my childhood… until now.” Another admitted, “I was skeptical, but once I focused on your voice, I journeyed to meet my younger self.” Others shared how deeply they went despite being unprepared for it. In that moment, I learned that resilience isn’t about controlling the environment, it’s about returning to yourself, remembering why you’re there, and becoming a channel for the work to move through you.
It was a beautiful Los Angeles day in June. The day of my first big event: a spring wellness retreat for women, hosted by CorexChristine and BrandyxArmstrong. They had asked me to lead a hypnosis for inner strength and peace. Everything could have gone wrong…and yet, it went so right.

Here’s what I walked into: I was a last‑minute addition. Most of the attendees weren’t familiar with hypnosis and were in the age group likely to hold a negative connotation of it. That morning, it unexpectedly rained…not ideal when you need everyone to lay down comfortably. I reminded myself: these are all things we can overcome. I trust my grounded energy, and I knew I could help them trust me, too. By my time slot, the sun was blazing, the grass had dried, and the women had just finished an intense workout. Showtime.

Then, as I began, everything got louder: planes soaring overhead, birds squabbling, lawnmowers roaring. Even the music stopped working. I felt the group’s energy tighten. So I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and did what I know to do. Leaned into my order amidst the chaos and delivered on my word. And it worked. The responses after had me smiling so hard my cheeks hurt.

One participant told me: “I’ve never been able to access memories from my childhood… until now.” Another admitted, “I was skeptical, but once I focused on your voice, I journeyed to meet my younger self.” Others shared how deeply they went despite being unprepared for it. In that moment, I learned that resilience isn’t about controlling the environment, it’s about returning to yourself, remembering why you’re there, and becoming a channel for the work to move through you.

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

The biggest lesson I had to unlearn stepping into this field was the idea that you have to be “fully healed” to help others.

When I began this work, I was in one of the hardest seasons of my life. Years prior, I had resurfaced a childhood memory of sexual assault by a close family member I’d once admired. I couldn’t process it then, so I pushed it back down. Fast‑forward a few years, and I developed a growth on my uterus that caused excruciating, almost exorcism‑like pain. I tried to schedule surgery to remove it, but the universe kept throwing obstacles in my path. Eventually, I went to my teacher and asked for help, “Could we approach this through spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical healing instead?”

We traced that physical growth back to that buried memory. So I did the work: I remembered. I allowed myself to fully feel what happened. I stirred up the strength to refuse to let it define me, and eventually, I even had the hard conversation with my family member. After 23 years of carrying this memory, I finally set it down. I felt lighter. I was sure my body would reflect that healing. But when I went for a scan, the growth was still there, unchanged. I spiraled. How could I guide people to peace when I couldn’t “fix” myself? I felt like a fraud.

But over time, I learned the truth: there is no such thing as fully healed or perfect. There is only the commitment to meet yourself as you are and walk forward from there. Eventually, I gave myself permission to remove the growth surgically, and I don’t regret it. I also made peace with that family member. To the point that if I saw him today, I could give him a hug. My family doesn’t understand that level of forgiveness, but I feel at peace. And that is enough.

So what’s the moral? You don’t have to be fully healed to help others. You just have to be alive, present, and willing to do the work yourself. That’s what makes this human experience, and this work, so beautiful. Be easy.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.healwithtal.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/talmargalit
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tmargalit0/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TALMARGALIT

Image Credits

Ofir Hengli
Mazal Market
Scalp Sanctuary
CoreXChristine