Today we’d like to introduce you to Bianca Hellenga.
Hi Bianca, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
My journey didn’t begin where I once believed it had. For a long time, I thought my spiritual awakening was sparked by childbirth, by the beautiful unraveling of identity that happened with becoming a mother, and with each child that came along (now 4 beautiful children). While that transformation was powerful and deeply formative, the true beginning was further back, into my childhood, where I already felt intuitively that stories told weren’t fully accurate, and immersed myself in paranormal subjects with the books I searched for in the library. When young adulthood came around, I took a pause in further exploration and sought to escape the chaos from my family, and moved overseas at the age of 19, where not long after, I entered a period of darkness and had an experience I rarely spoke of because it took me years to fully understand.
When I was 24, I was in a relationship with a physically and mentally abusive ex-boyfriend, which left me completely lost. He was an avid gym enthusiast and was using steroids to bulk up. This created a Jekyll and Hyde personality and was incredibly scary with the intense mood swings. Because I saw through rose colored glasses, mainly tainted with the perception that I didn’t deserve any better, that it was somehow all my fault, which he so clearly pointed out, and was scared of being alone, I didn’t think of getting out any sooner than I did. It took a twisted interest on his behalf that led to my asphyxiation, which caused my Near-Death Experience. This experience pulled me into what is known as the void, a vast, dark, silent space. It wasn’t the blissful light-filled encounter I’d read about in books. It was really disorienting and terrifying. I was floating in a space of absolute nothingness, with no way to leave. This was a shock to my ego; I felt utterly alone, separated from my body, but acutely aware. In that moment, I came face-to-face with the life I was living: a life devoid of self-love, entangled in a relationship where I abandoned my self and my truth just to be chosen, and being shown a mirror to what I had been doing to myself even longer than that.
I didn’t know it then, but the void offered me something essential: a pause and an opportunity to choose. To see the trajectory I was on and decide whether I wanted to continue down it, or start living in alignment with the truth I had yet to discover.
Even though that experience felt like it was never-ending, once I realized I stood at the door of death and had to choose myself, I snapped back instantly, which was also disorienting. All this happened within a minute or so. Upon coming back more fully, I was left with questions that I didn’t find the answers to until 17 years later.
I didn’t change overnight after that experience. It took time, more hardship, and a second brush with death, also due to an intense altercation with my ex-boyfriend, to finally listen. During that altercation and while I was trying to fight for my life, I heard a voice tell me to remember the NDE experience, and to surrender. I surrendered and followed the guidance, which saved my life. After that, I chose myself. I left that relationship. And as I was moving forward with the steps i needed to take to make that happen, things miraculously lined up that made it nearly effortless. I took the first true steps toward self-responsibility, self-love, and wholeness. That was the moment my true awakening began.
Years later, as I became a mother, those awakenings deepened. With each child, another layer of false identity dissolved. I began to recognize that many of the patterns I thought were “me” had actually been inherited from my upbringing, generational trauma, and even from other lifetimes. The very patterns I thought I escaped from when I left my childhood home and moved overseas. My children were the mirrors.
My marriage and motherhood provided a time of reflection, and the yearning to understand more about myself, consciousness, and the unseen threads of life, which led me to reconnect with my interest in the spiritual, yet non-religious topics, the subconscious, and the Higher Self. I immersed myself in studying and practicing Reiki, the Akashic Records, Conscious Parenting and Parent Coach training, Yoga, QHHT®, Soul Realignment®, PSYCH-K®, Emotion Code®, and just recently finished an in-depth training in Clinical and Transpersonal Hypnotherapy. These aren’t just modalities I trained in; they were lifelines in my search for meaning. Each opened doorways into deeper awareness and reawakened dormant gifts: intuitive knowing, sensitivity to subtle energies, and a strengthened connection to the unseen, including my own soul’s journey and sanskaras (karmic patterns), which eventually allowed me to make sense of the NDE in the void.
What I’ve uncovered on this path is what I had been missing all along: my essence, my voice, and the quiet, powerful presence of self-love. I spent much of my early life navigating the world through the lens of shame, guilt, and survival, until I began unraveling those layers with compassion, curiosity, and truth. My journey is still unfolding, but I walk it now not just for myself, but to support others and be a bridge toward their remembering who they are, too, and that makes my past challenges absolutely worth it.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
Not at all, Many winding turns and perceived boulders on the road have been a part of the unraveling. I was faced time and time again with parts of myself that sought safety in the known narrative, the comfort zone, even if the wiser part of me knew better. It took many such experiences, even a flooding of my home after Hurricane Ian, literally and metaphorically, laid my home’s foundation bare after washing away all of the muck. (Our house is elevated, so the main living area wasn’t flooded). And a home, as some may understand from dreamwork analysis, represents oneself. At that point, things accelerated, and trying to desperately hold on to what was, resisting it, caused many more things to break down, which I don’t think was a mere coincidence, but a series of orchestrated events (from beyond/higher self, etc) meant to propel me out of what no longer served me. My car, for one, had to be purchased after my other one drowned in the flood. It was quite new, but not long after, it started having issues. At first, it was smoking because of a coolant leak, then the same side rear passenger tire kept losing air after being plugged up and replaced 4 times, and the 4th time it was a quick flat, all within a year. Brake issues that didn’t resolve with a replacement, but kept recurring, causing 4 brake replacements on all sides within 1 year as well. And then the ignition and spark plugs all went out, leaving me stranded in Orlando after a conference. I had had the car for only 3 years at that point. The car represents me too, a secondary “body” used for daily transportation, and I drive a lot with the kids to and from their schools/programs. Also, right after the flooding, we had to seek shelter elsewhere, and the washing machine there that I could use kept running into a stuck spin cycle. Nothing really about that you’d think, just an issue with that appliance, but once we got back into our home, our washing machine started having the same issue all of a sudden. All of the house’s appliances, except for the microwave, also started malfunctioning. Half the solar panels stopped working, and we have yet to get them to work. The dishwasher has had electrical issues, sometimes not working at all, and then it does, and randomly plays the “done” tune. The fridge broke down in January 0f 2025, and about 4 repairs were done on it; meanwhile, that only lasted for a day or so until it malfunctioned again. It was finally successfully repaired in October, ironically, after I made some painful, but necessary decisions in my life that I knew were required for my own well-being. Listening to some songs on my phone via Bluetooth on my car’s speakers also sometimes randomly stopped working, and turning the radio back right on to a song by Ace of Base – The Sign. The main lyric being: “I saw a sign, and I opened up my eyes, I saw a sign”, and that’s not the only one. Throughout all of the house, car, and appliance breakdowns, the random songs with messages, and there is so much more to add here. And with my understanding of how our external world communicates about our inner world and uses it as a medium to bring symbolic messages to what is happening and guidance on where to go, it has been quite clear that all of that was telling me that I had to stop holding on to what no longer served me. Because holding on was literally breaking my life apart and affecting my well-being, I continued to carry a weight I needed to shed. And just like when I left my abusive ex, with each step I am surrendering to the truth, the chaos has started to lessen, too.
We’ve been impressed with Liberated Heart Empowered Soul LLC, but for folks who might not be as familiar, what can you share with them about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
Liberated Heart Empowered Soul LLC was established in 2021, and as the name indicates, the services I provide are geared toward helping people remember who they are, their authentic truths, and reconnect with their inner knowing, by working through and releasing the very patterns that stand in the way of love’s presence and embodiment.
I don’t just teach spiritual concepts, I was forced to embody them. My journey didn’t start with bliss; it began with the terrifying moment of being pulled into the void during my NDE, an experience that shattered my ego and compelled me to choose self-love over mere survival, over and over again. This means that I meet my clients with a deep understanding of what it actually takes to radically choose yourself and change your life when everything is breaking down.
My experiences have also sharpened my intuition. The years I spent experiencing the relentless external breakdowns, my car, my house, and my appliances literally breaking apart, and even the messages of support and love through the birds and the whispers of the trees, taught me to see the world as a direct mirror reflecting the subconscious mind. I help my clients read the symbolic language of their life, whether it’s through physical ailments or recurring external chaos. We quickly pinpoint the exact resistance or hidden belief their life may be screaming at them to address, because, as I learned, holding on will literally break your life apart.
Finally, I offer a truly integrated, non-dogmatic approach. I weave together deep training in clinical and transpersonal hypnotherapy with soul work like the Akashic Records and trauma-informed coaching. I act as a bridge, intuitively applying the exact modalities a soul needs at that moment, always guiding them back to trust their own internal truth and knowing above all else.
The following services are offered to do just that:
– Clinical & Transpersonal Hypnotherapy
– QHHT®
– Breathwork
– Akashic Records
– Soul Realignment®
– Emotion Code®
– PSYCH-K®
– Spirit Guide Profile
& Sound Healing
I offer group Breathwork, Past Life Regression, and Sound Healing journeys, separately or combined for unique or customized experiences, and soon to be offered workshops in reading your own Akashic Records, Life Mastery, Self-Hypnosis, Self-Inquiry, and more.
I’m excited to share that I am currently immersed in writing my first book, a fictional autobiography that traces my soul’s journey through time in search of wholeness, shaped by significant losses along the way. Following that, I already have a second book lined up which will delve deeply into the nature of synchronicity, sharing my detailed personal experiences and teaching readers how to fine-tune their own ability to recognize and utilize this infinite resource.
Where do you see things going in the next 5-10 years?
The biggest shift is the move toward genuine integration. We’re moving past the “woo-woo” stigma as modalities like clinical and transpersonal hypnotherapy, breathwork, and sound healing become recognized for their measurable impact on mental health and trauma recovery. I predict increased collaboration between spiritual practitioners and traditional care providers, leading to more mainstream referrals for things like nervous system regulation and deep subconscious reprogramming.
After years of surface-level wellness trends, people are seeking methods that address core trauma quickly and effectively. I believe that there will be a massive surge in demand for “high-impact” modalities that work directly with the subconscious, like QHHT®, specialized hypnotherapy, and advanced somatic work. Clients will prioritize practitioners who can facilitate rapid, root-level change and help them release inherited patterns and trauma, much like the work I do with Hypnotherapy, Akashic Records, PSYCH-K®, and Rapid Mindset Shift.
The shift to online platforms has made deep work accessible, and that will likely accelerate as well. We’ll see a huge movement away from expensive, one-on-one sessions toward group experiences offered online, like guided group regressions, collective sound healing, and breathwork journeys. This will make healing more affordable, empower participants with self-mastery tools, and allow practitioners to serve a global community. This is exactly why my goal is to focus on recorded guided meditations and expand my online group offerings. However, it also remains important to keep in-person sessions available and not eliminate them, because for many people, in-person connections are the most important to make an actual impact.
One more thing is that clients are increasingly discerning and want practitioners who have walked the path they teach. Many practitioners may not truly be in it for the service, but for the money. The industry will value transparency and authenticity over manufactured perfection. Practitioners who integrate their personal transformation, especially those who have transformed significant trauma, will be the most trusted and sought-after. The story itself becomes a key part of the offering.
Pricing:
- Hypnotherapy, 1-3 hours, online or in-person $175
- QHHT®, 5-7 hours, in-person, $350
- Akashic Records – 1 hour, online or in-person, $75
- Emotion Code® – 1 hour, online or in-person, $75
- Breathwork – 1 1/2 hours, online or in-person, $115
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.liberatetoempower.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/liberatedheartempoweredsoul
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/liberatedheartempoweredsoul/
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bianca-hellenga-ccht-894b5637a/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LiberatedHeartEmpoweredSoul
Image Credits
SpiritFest USA (for picture of me with client)
