Meet Melinda Bernstein

We recently connected with Melinda Bernstein and have shared our conversation below.

Melinda, so glad you were able to set aside some time for us today. We’ve always admired not just your journey and success, but also the seemingly high levels of self-discipline that you seem to have mastered and so maybe we can start by chatting about how you developed it or where it comes from?

I developed a Roadmap for myself. It begins with holding myself to account and taking responsibility for my life. It ends with living my ultimate possibility, through passion, pleasure, purpose and peaceful inquiry.

Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?

I guide people back to the parts of themselves they’ve yet to discover.
My work lives at the intersection of spiritual teaching, emotional clarity, and embodied healing. I create meditations, rewritten psalms, and teachings that help people who are exhausted by self-improvement culture and ready for something truer — a path of presence, honesty, and inner steadiness.
I’m a rabbi by lineage, a life coach by calling, a writer and spiritual guide by instinct. My work isn’t about fixing people. It’s about helping them remember what’s hidden. Through my meditations on Insight Timer, my Sacred Vitality course, and my love of being a feminine, contemporary presence, I offer tools that support realignment — emotionally, spiritually, and energetically.
The most exciting part is watching people wake up to their own strength after years of feeling disconnected. Nothing I create is theoretical. It comes from my lived experience: resilience, reinvention, and the road of humility and vitality.
Right now, I’m enjoying the fruits of my labor, embracing peace within too.
My brand is simple:
Come home to yourself without bypassing the truth.
If my work does anything, I hope it gives people a place to breathe again.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?

1. Radical Self-Honesty
The most impactful skill I developed was the ability to tell myself the truth without collapsing under it. Self-honesty is uncomfortable, but it’s the only thing that creates real change.
Advice: Start by noticing where you make excuses, minimize, or avoid. You don’t have to fix everything at once — just stop lying to yourself. Clarity will do half the work for you.
2. Emotional Regulation
My journey would have looked very different if I didn’t learn how to calm my own nervous system. Discipline and vision don’t mean much when your body is in a constant survival state.
Advice: Learn one practice — just one — that reliably brings your system back down. Breathwork, meditation, somatic grounding, anything you can repeat daily. Regulation is the foundation of every other strength.
3. Spiritual Literacy
Not religious dogma — but the ability to understand the deeper patterns that shape a life: cycles, thresholds, initiations, loss, reinvention. Knowing the landscape gave me direction when nothing else made sense.
Advice: Pay attention to your own patterns. Study the frameworks that resonate with you — psychology, mythology, anything that helps you interpret your life with structure instead of chaos.

How would you spend the next decade if you somehow knew that it was your last?

I’d live the way I’ve been living in this last decade! Remembering who I am through my fondest memories. Stripping my life down to what’s essential: honest relationships, meaningful work, and a steady inner life. Giving my time to the people who can meet me soul-to-soul, and releasing anything that drains vitality. Living with intentional ideals; choosing joy without apology, time with my family, beauty, intimacy, and experiences that deepen my sense of being alive. A decade is short, but it’s enough to live deliberately.

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