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My name is Monika Marguerite Lux.

I am an intuitive trauma transformation coach and creator of HeARTful Transformation Therapy, who helps especially young moms and teenagers break free from anxiety, social phobia, depression and PTSD. I am best known for my innate ability to intuitively identify the root cause of patterns keeping you stuck or in pain. Over the past decade, countless individuals have experienced deeply transformati

ve and long-term shifts from my integrative formula of Intuitive Coaching/Counseling combined with Expressive Arts Therapy, NLP, Systemic (Family) Constellation and EFT Meridian Tapping. My greatest passion is to see you break free from childhood trauma and ancestral burden, reborn like a butterfly, emerging from cocoon, in order to live your true magic being that you were meant to be by birthright. My mission is to help alleviate suffering and bring healing to those who are dealing with trauma, grief and anxiety through an emotional release process that’s gentle and powerful at the same time, connecting you to the truth of who you are. It’s like a realization that allows you to transform trauma into triumph and inner wisdom. In addition to my private practice, I am a blogger, speaker, author (The Art of Tapping : Lux, Monika Marguerite: Amazon.ca: Books) The Art Of Tapping, Balboa Press), YouTuber (www.youtube.com/c/balanching) and workshop facilitator. As a professional photographer, her most favorite non-traditional way of practicing meditation is to embark on a photo-taking spree at the breath-taking natural locations here on Vancouver Island. I choose to see you from an open heart! I meet you where you are! I know that you have the ability and potential to shift your life back into resonance and focus. I offer you a safe and supportive environment filled with love, kindness and acceptance for sharing your story! Together, we will create a vision and a roadmap for your life! Then, I will guide you through a transformative process from releasing, healing, growing and thriving, to living the life you’ve always desired!

✦ The Roots of Self-Trust ✦❓Have you ever wondered why you can be incredibly successful, yet still secretly doubt your o...
05/30/2026

✦ The Roots of Self-Trust ✦

❓Have you ever wondered why you can be incredibly successful, yet still secretly doubt your own decisions?

❗The truth is, most people don't realize how early these patterns start.

👉As children, we are like little radars, constantly scanning our environment to see if our voice matters, if our feelings are valid, and if our instincts can be trusted.

👉Those lessons rarely come from a direct lecture. They are quietly absorbed through everyday interactions, reactions, and the emotional climate around us.

👉Here is what that looks like in real life. Some of the most common childhood experiences that quietly chip away at your adult self-trust include:
▪️Constant Criticism: You unconsciously learn that your choices are "wrong" more often than they are right.
▪️Emotional Dismissal: Being told you are "too sensitive" or "overreacting" teaches you to stop trusting your own emotional data.
▪️Unpredictable Environments: When moods, rules, or expectations constantly shift, your nervous system learns that the world isn't safe, so it stays on high alert.
▪️Overcontrol: If you were rarely allowed to make your own decisions, independence begins to feel like a high-stakes risk instead of an act of confidence.
▪️Conditional Praise: When you are valued more for what you do or achieve rather than who you are, you learn to abandon your essence to please others.

✦The Subtle Impact✦

👉These experiences rarely feel dramatic in the moment.

😥Imagine a child who runs up to a parent, bursting with excitement over a tiny discovery—a hobby, a drawing, or a fresh idea—only to be met with a distracted sigh, a correction, or outright dismissal.
Over time, that child stops running forward. They learn to second-guess their inner spark.
(I was that child)

😥If you grew up under rigid control, making a choice on your own didn't feel like freedom—it felt dangerous.

👉Today, that might show up as chronic overthinking, a constant need for external validation, or feeling completely disconnected from your intuition.
🙏I was able to heal and release the emotions trapped in my body, and so are you!

❣️You don't have to navigate this unlearning alone. As an intuitive HeARTful Transformation Coach, I specialize in helping you access the subconscious and somatic intelligence of your body to gently untangle these old survival rules and reclaim your sovereign self-trust.

Let's chat about what you're ready to release.
☕ I invite you to a free virtual coffee chat. Drop a comment below, send me a direct message, or click the calendar button on my website: www.balanching.org, and let's find a time to connect.

📔If you'd like to receive my 20-page nervous system reset guide, click on this link: https://balanching-mindfulness-institute.kit.com/435d1467dc

🙏Welcome to the BalanCHIng sanctuary, your ultimate homecoming. ❣️Safely navigate life’s biggest transitions using an in...
05/29/2026

🙏Welcome to the BalanCHIng sanctuary, your ultimate homecoming.

❣️Safely navigate life’s biggest transitions using an integrated blend of nervous system regulation,
▪️EFT tapping,
▪️ Qigong moving meditation, and
▪️ journaling for self-discovery.

🧘Your peaceful path forward starts here.

❓Ready to find your still point?

👇See instructions in the comments to download your FREE 20-page heart-centering guide and join our warm community for ongoing support on your journey of transformation.

🌿A more compassionate world starts with you.🌿👉The shift begins inside each of us—from worry to calm, from stress to cohe...
05/29/2026

🌿A more compassionate world starts with you.🌿

👉The shift begins inside each of us—from worry to calm, from stress to coherence, from judging others to compassion, and from disconnection to genuine connection.

🙏For over 20 years, the BalanCHIng Mindfulness Institute has developed a combination of tools to help you navigate this inner shift and turn moments of deep heart connection into an everyday way of life.

🦋While your brain stores an incredible type of intelligence, your heart acts as a bridge to a higher intelligence.
❣️It is this heart-centered wisdom that guides you in making better decisions, deepening your relationships, and living a more meaningful, intentional life.

🌿When the mind drives our choices and behaviors entirely alone—without the guidance of this higher heart intelligence—we find ourselves living disconnected from our true selves and from those around us.
🌿But when we intentionally align the mind and the heart, we achieve a powerful state known as Heart Coherence (HeartMath Institute).

❣️Why Heart Coherence Changes Everything:
▪️Replaces Reactivity: It shifts you from immediate defense into calm, intentional self-regulation.
▪️Increases Inner Security: It naturally amplifies your personal peace, satisfaction, and emotional security.
▪️Deepens Bonds: It serves as the catalyst for truly meaningful, authentic relationships.
▪️Unlocks Innovation: It quiets the noise, opening the door for creative new solutions to arise.
▪️Elevates the Collective: It contributes to raising humanity’s consciousness on a global scale.
▪️Heals the Whole: It creates a ripple effect of more peace and less suffering for all.

❣️When you choose to live from a coherent heart, you aren't just changing your own life—you are actively participating in healing the world around you.❣️

Which benefit of Heart Coherence resonates the most with your life right now—is it replacing reactivity with calm, or deepening your relationships with others?

🙏I would love to connect with you:
If you are currently navigating a stressful time or a big life transition and would simply like an open ear and a compassionate listener, I’d love to invite you to a casual virtual coffee chat.
🧘No pressure, no agenda—just a safe, warm space to talk things through and find your center.

Drop a comment (coffee chat) below, or send me a direct message if you'd like to find a time to connect. www.balanching.org

https://monikamargueritelux.systeme.io/qigong

🌿One of the things that haunts me is watching people live in pain.🌿❤️Not just physical pain—but also the emotional weigh...
05/28/2026

🌿One of the things that haunts me is watching people live in pain.🌿

❤️Not just physical pain—but also the emotional weight, the exhaustion, the anxiety, the overwhelm, and that relentless feeling of carrying everyone and everything around you.

🙏I truly believe we are meant to live lives of joy, freedom, love, connection, and ease. Yes, life can be bumpy—but deep suffering was never meant to become our permanent identity.

❗Right now, I see so many people living with the exhaustion, confusion, and pain of their own sensitivity working against them rather than for them.

🙏If you are feeling this weight, I want you to know that you don't have to carry it alone.
▪️Together, we can begin healing the patterns, wounds, fears, and energetic burdens that have kept you stuck, depleted, disconnected, or trapped in survival mode. ▪️Through a multi-modal approach to nervous system regulation and deep subconscious change, we can reconnect you to the truth of who you are beneath the pain and conditioning.

❗This is not simply information.❗

👉This is a process of deep transformation to help you feel safe being yourself again, allowing you to finally reclaim your high sensitivity as a gift rather than a burden.

🦋"The Journey of the Peaceful Warrior" was created for exactly this. https://monikamargueritelux.systeme.io/qigong

🙏And if you are ready for that shift, I would be deeply honored to walk beside you on this path—because your life can change in ways you cannot yet imagine.

🦋Sometimes, all it takes is one moment, one decision, one “yes” to yourself.

If you are navigating a major life transition right now and simply need an open ear and a compassionate listener, I’d love to invite you to a casual virtual coffee chat.
No pressure, no agenda—just a safe, supportive space to talk things through.

Drop a comment (COFFEE) below, or send me a direct message if you'd like to find a time to connect.

www.balanching.org

🌿The power of a quiet room, a walk in the trees, or a pet resting their head in your lap is wildly underrated in the coa...
05/27/2026

🌿The power of a quiet room, a walk in the trees, or a pet resting their head in your lap is wildly underrated in the coaching and therapeutic world.🌿

👉There is a loud narrative out there that you *must* talk it out, you *must* be witnessed, and you *must* process your transitions in a community container or on a screen to make it count.

🙏But for many of us—especially those navigating massive life changes or a highly sensitive nervous system—true restoration doesn't happen under the gaze of another person.

❤️It happens when the pressure is entirely off.

❗Healing alone isn't just valid; for some, it is the only way the body finally feels safe enough to drop its guard and actually mend.

❣️Healing doesn’t always happen in therapy. It also happens in solitude. In the quiet pockets of your day, alone, when you have the time and space to process, think, and feel.

❗Never let anyone tell you that your healing isn’t valid because it didn’t happen with a therapist, in a group, or on a Zoom call.

🦋Some of us need the healing presence of nature, animals, and silence more than we need people.

🌿Healing alone is still healing🌿

🧘However, if you'd like an open ear and a compassionate listener right now, I'd love to invite you to a casual virtual coffee chat. Let me know if you'd like to find a time to connect, and put "Coffee Chat" in the comments or find a button connected to a calendar on my website www.balanching.org

🌿What if the story you’ve been living isn’t the truth at all?🌿 ❓What if you have the power to rewrite, clear, shift, and...
05/26/2026

🌿What if the story you’ve been living isn’t the truth at all?🌿
❓What if you have the power to rewrite, clear, shift, and heal—right down to your very cells?

▪️Beliefs have the power to create. ▪️Beliefs have the power to destroy.

❗Not someday. Right now. Today.❗

👉Every single belief you hold is sending a direct signal to your nervous system in this exact moment.
▪️It is telling your body what to expect, what is possible, what you are capable of, and what you truly deserve.
👉Most people never stop to question that signal. They just live inside it, letting it dictate their boundaries.

❗But here is what we have to fully understand: A belief is not the truth.
A belief is a feeling of absolute certainty about what something means. That’s it.

You might feel certain that you aren't good with money, that relationships always end the same way, or that big career opportunities don't happen for people like you.

❗But certainty is not the same as fact.❗

▪️The most dangerous limiting beliefs aren't the ones you know you have.
▪️They are the hidden ones you’ve never questioned because they masquerade as facts—the ones inherited from a parent’s struggles, or hardened the day you were told you weren't "enough."

👉Those beliefs didn't just stay in your head.
👉They became your story. And your story became your life.

😥Many people hold onto these heavy, invisible anchors for twenty or thirty years, organizing their entire existence around them.
❤️And then, in a single, beautiful moment, when a new perspective cracks that certainty open, the belief dissolves.
❗Not gradually. Instantly.❗

🙏Because that is how fast a belief can change when you engage the mind, the body, and the creative spirit all at once.

🌿Shifting Certainty: The HeARTful Transformation Approach🌿

👉To truly dissolve a lifelong limiting belief, we cannot just "talk it out." We have to meet it where it lives—in our creative expression, our energy pathways, and our physical movement.

Here is how we crack the certainty open:
🦋Art Therapy & Story Writing (The Creative Mirror): Gain the creative distance needed to look at the old script and say, "I didn't write this, and I no longer choose to live it."

🦋EFT Tapping (The Emotional Release): We physically clear the emotional charge, melting the old "certainty" out of your body.

🦋Qigong Moving Meditation (The Somatic Reset): Through intentional Qigong movement and conscious breath, we shift your nervous system out of survival mode and into a state of profound safety.

🦋When you align your creative heart, your emotional energy, and your physical body, those decades-old walls don't just lean—they tumble down. You return to your true, unburdened center. Your still point.

Peaceful Warrior: https://monikamargueritelux.systeme.io/qigong

🌿Your Body Keeps the Score:Moving Beyond Just "Talking It Out"🌿❗If stress has been held in your system for years, you ca...
05/25/2026

🌿Your Body Keeps the Score:
Moving Beyond Just "Talking It Out"🌿

❗If stress has been held in your system for years, you can’t just talk it out (conventional talk therapy) and expect your body to magically believe it is safe.
▪️Your body doesn't speak the language of logic.
▪️It requires a felt experience of safety.

👉When stress is prolonged, it leaves what we call a stress imprint.
A stress imprint is simply a physical and energetic pattern that remains locked in your system after an experience has not been fully resolved or integrated. It doesn’t just come from a single, overwhelming event.

👉It accumulates quietly from:
▪️Years of hidden pressure and emotional suppression
▪️Constant people-pleasing and over-functioning
▪️Living in a chronic state of survival mode for far too long

❗The imprint is what stays behind when your body keeps responding as though the threat is still happening right now.

❓How to Recognize a Stress Imprint

Because the subconscious mind is deeply tied to our physiology, these imprints show up across every layer of our lives:
▪️Physically: Chronic jaw tension, tight shoulders, persistent fatigue, or digestive discomfort that won't go away.
▪️Emotionally: Feeling overwhelmed at lightning speed, sudden emotional numbness, shutting down, or experiencing a level of reactivity that feels way bigger than the current moment.
▪️In Life Patterns: Repeating the same exhausting relationship dynamics or constantly feeling the crushing pressure to keep everyone else comfortable at your own expense.

👉If you recognize these signs in yourself, please hear this: You are not broken.
It simply means your system learned how to survive using an old, outdated map.

🗺️ Activating a New Somatic Map

🙏True, lasting transformation doesn't happen by just analyzing your past upstream—it happens by creating a new experience in the present.
🧘This is exactly why we use a multi-modal approach in The Journey Of The Peaceful Warrior.

❣️Through gentle Metaphorical Qigong movements, EFT Tapping, and subconscious retraining, we approach these locked imprints with immense compassion.
▪️We don't force them open; we create the precise somatic conditions that allow your body to finally feel safe enough to let them go.

If you can relate and would like to learn more, I'd like to invite you to a virtual coffee chat www.balanching.org and/or visit https://monikamargueritelux.systeme.io/qigong

I help High-Functioning Seekers dig deeper into the "gold" they’ve shaken loose.Come with me on a 12-week journey to bec...
05/24/2026

I help High-Functioning Seekers dig deeper into the "gold" they’ve shaken loose.
Come with me on a 12-week journey to become a Peaceful Warrior: This is a short excerpt:

🌿Identify the Weight🌿

▪️The Invisible Backpack: If the tension you feel was a physical object you’ve been carrying for years, what would it be?

▪️The Performance: In what area of your life are you "performing" peace instead of actually feeling it?
▪️The Habitual Story: What is the one sentence you tell yourself most often about your limitations (e.g., "I have to do it all," "I’m not allowed to rest"...
▪️The Alchemy of the Past
The Fuel from the Fire: Looking back at a difficult life transition (like a loss or a professional setback), what specific "gold" or wisdom did you gain that you wouldn't have found otherwise?
▪️The Parental Blueprint: As you reflect on my childhood, what "survival mask" did you create to keep myself safe?
▪️Reclaiming the Future
The Divine Blueprint: If your body was a "home" you were returning to for the first time in a decade, what is the first room you would want to sit in and rest?
The Morning After: Imagine waking up tomorrow with the "letting go" fully integrated. How would your very first breath of the day feel different in my chest?
▪️The Peaceful Warrior’s Vow: To honor the space you created today, what is one "No" you need to say this week so that you can say "Yes" to your own healing?

Find more information: https://monikamargueritelux.systeme.io/qigong

or visit me for a virtual coffee chat:
www.balanching.org

🐾The Power of Silent Conversation: What Animals Teach Us About Energy🐾🐽򣱓ometimes, the most profound connections happen w...
05/23/2026

🐾The Power of Silent Conversation: What Animals Teach Us About Energy🐾

🐽򣱓ometimes, the most profound connections happen without a single spoken word.

😺Right now, I am looking after a cat for some friends.
We only met briefly twice before, but over the last few days, we’ve developed a beautiful daily ritual.
It is a bond built entirely through energy, intention, and peace.

😺Every time I open the door, she greets me with a gentle meow.
After she gets her eye drops, her food, and her water, she stops and looks at me.

😺Without saying a word, I communicate with her energetically: “It’s time to go outside together.”

🐾When we step out, she always stays in a perfect circle about 5 meters around me.
She eats some grass, wanders a bit, and periodically comes back to me for deep, quiet cuddles.
🐾When it’s time to head back in, I simply stand up and set the intention.
🐾No coaxing, no picking her up, and no calling out. We just turn and walk inside together.

💕It is a fascinating, fluid, energetic conversation.

🌿Creating the Space for Connection🌿

🙏When we choose to become centered, step into true peace, and approach animals with intentional rituals, the ordinary world quietens down.
😺Animals are incredibly sensitive to our energetic footprints.
They don't need the noise of human language; they respond to the calm clarity of a regulated heart.

🙏For me, discovering Reiki was a profound turning point.
🙏29 years ago, it became the single greatest tool I could have found to help me navigate the deep grief of losing my dad.
▪️It taught me how to hold space for big emotions,
▪️how to ground myself, and ▪️how to connect to life on a much deeper, subtler level.

😺That same grounding energy is what animals feel when we sit with them.

💕Learning to Listen with Your Heart💕

🙏Reiki isn't just a technique you memorize in a weekend workshop; it is a relationship with energy that you live, breathe, and grow into over time.

🙏If you feel called to learn Reiki—not just as a concept, but the heARTful way, integrated deeply over a longer period of apprenticeship—I would love to support you on that path.

👉Let’s explore what’s possible together. Drop a comment below or send me a DM, and we can set up a warm, virtual coffee chat to connect. ☕✨

💬 I’d love to hear your perspective:Which two "opposite" parts of yourself have been the hardest for you to hold in the ...
05/22/2026

💬 I’d love to hear your perspective:
Which two "opposite" parts of yourself have been the hardest for you to hold in the same sacred container? How did learning to integrate them shift the way you show up for yourself and those you serve?

🌿There is a common misconception that healing means overcoming the difficult parts of oneself—the parts that feel contradictory.🌿

👉Many believe that spirituality means transcending these depths.

🙏But true healing is not about rejecting parts of ourselves.
▪️It is about learning how to listen, ▪️understand,
▪️and integrate them.

👉When we look at the triggers, unconscious patterns, and hidden forces shaping us, our relationships, and our choices, we find a profound opportunity.
🙏Instead of constantly pointing outward or getting stuck in judgment, everything changes when we make a single shift and ask:
“What is this experience showing me about myself?”

🌀 Breaking the Emotional Loops🌀

❤️This single inquiry is how we break out of the same emotional loops that repeat again and again.

🙏True integration requires us to hold the tension of opposites within, rather than going to war with ourselves.

❤️We must learn to hold both extremes in the same sacred container of our lives:
▪️The driven leader and the insecure, exhausted self.
▪️The wise, intuitive guide and the one who makes mistakes and is always learning.
▪️The spiritual seeker and the analytical mind grounded in science.

❗Wholeness is not perfection.
❤️Wholeness is embracing all that we are with awareness and compassion.
🙏Embracing this shadow work doesn't just change how we feel internally—it is exactly what makes us better partners, teachers, practitioners, and humans.

Have a look at my new course: https://monikamargueritelux.systeme.io/qigong

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