Meet Your Guide

Barbara Maseda

Transformational Health and Wellness Practitioner • Life Coach • Qigong Teacher • Creator of The Looking Glass Experience™

I did not become a coach because I had life figured out. I became a coach because I know what it means to survive, search for answers, and slowly find my way back to myself.

I am a survivor of sexual abuse, mental abuse, emotional abuse, physical abuse, and chemical abuse. For years, I carried experiences I did not have the language, safety, or support to process. I learned how to keep moving, take care of everyone else, and appear strong while mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually disconnected from myself.

There was also a pain-filled version of me trying to mother from that disconnection. I love my children deeply, and I have also had to become honest about how my pain, patterns, and choices affected their experience of me. That was one of the hardest reflections I have ever faced.

My transformation did not begin when I found more information. It began when I became willing to pause and look honestly at myself.

Self-awareness opened the door to self-reflection. Self-reflection asked me to recognize what I was thinking, feeling, repeating, tolerating, and choosing. Self-responsibility required me to acknowledge the impact of my choices without remaining trapped in blame or shame. I could not change what had already happened, but I could take responsibility for who I chose to become and how I showed up moving forward.

Through motherhood, relationships, grief, health struggles, rebuilding, choosing an alcohol-free life, reconnecting with my body, and learning to remain present with my own reflection, I discovered that transformation is not about becoming someone else. It is the journey of remembering who you are and learning to live as that person.

My lived experience led me to become a Certified Health Coach, Certified Life Coach, Transformational Coach, Advanced Health Coach, Qigong teacher, and Tai Chi student instructor. My education gave me tools and language. My life taught me how deeply this work matters.

Today, I guide people who have gathered the information, tried different approaches, and still felt disconnected from the person they know they are capable of being. I do not offer a quick fix or claim to have your answers. I create a space where you can pause, breathe, look honestly within yourself, and practice choosing what happens next.

This is the journey from awareness to self-reflection, from self-responsibility to self-discovery, and from self-discovery into self-actualization—the embodiment of who you know yourself to be.

I am not here to tell you who to become.

I am here to guide you as you learn to see yourself, trust yourself, and live what you discover.

One Sunrise at a Time!

Mobile Morning Embodiment Sessions

Before the world begins asking something from you, take time to meet yourself.

A Morning Embodiment Session is a 90-minute guided

Pause • Breathe • Move experience that brings the heart of Spiritual Breakfast directly to you.

This mobile experience can come to you, or we can meet in an intentional outdoor space such as a park or the beach—somewhere you can step away from the noise of everyday life and reconnect with yourself.

Through self-reflection, intention, breathwork, meditation, and Qigong and Tai Chi-infused movement, we create conditions that support nervous-system regulation, greater body awareness, and a more intentional response to what is present.

This is more than beginning your morning differently.

It is practicing how you want to show up in your life.  

One-on-one and group sessions available.