ABOUT
A storyteller at heart, meet Brittany Mondido.
“My collective life experiences have led me to my work with ARM and my overall mission in life–that doesn’t feel like a mission–as much as it feels like a very important message that gets expressed in different ways.”
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At the heart of Brittany’s work is a devotion to restoring faith in humanity and supporting human evolution through heart consciousness. She studies sufferingandlove not as opposites, but as forces that reveal one another. Her work invites people to remember who they are beneath unconscious patterns, shadows and trauma–allowing lives to be lived beyond past experiences.
Brittany’s professional path began in clinical Ophthalmology, where she supported individuals with the literal vision of the body’s eyes. Working closely with patients, surgeons, and care teams, she witnessed how perception, fear and identityshape our lives.
This early work formed the foundation of her lifelong inquiry into vision—not only how we see the world, but how we see ourselves, one another, our planet––and what becomes possible when willing to see differently.
From there, her career expanded into Healthcare Leadership reaching nearly fifteen years working within complex clinical and organizational systems including leading LEAN Six Sigma projects closing her tenure in a Level 1 Trauma Emergency Department working in the trenches of trauma, disease and addiction all while holding the vision of the overall patient experience. This held something much deeper for her that she later learned.
Suffering in Silence to Loving Out Loud…
Over time, Brittany felt called into a broader yet deeper frame that led her on an unexpected healing path following the parting of a relationship, her “home,” career, and the life she had once known. Her path led her into the study of spiritual psychotherapy, psychology, neuroscience, human behavior, trauma-informed modalities, the shamanic path, and somatic practice, alongside Eastern and Indigenous medicine traditions.
Through this journey, she discovered that she comes from a rich lineage of Indigenous healers from Southeast Asia — a remembrance that brought language and context to capacities she had intuitively carried since childhood. What she came to understand is that they all point to the same thing: the space between our lives can either become a catalyst or a hovering point, yet both ultimately leading us back to Love. Suffering. Love. Suffering, Love. Seeing the beauty in both.
She traveled to Mexico with a vision, and An ARM’s Reach was born.
Her work is based on lived experience and does not teach from theory alone. She weaves together personal experience, nervous system awareness, heart intelligence, somatic embodiment, spiritual insight, and practical strategy in a way that supports, preserves, and honors one’s sovereignty––making it as simple as possible for the human.
She has trained with and been influenced by renowned leaders such as Peter Levine, Gabor Maté, Deb Dana, Stephen Porges, The Ruiz Family, and the Masters of the Shaolin Temple, primarily under Shi Heng Yi, shaping an approach that is grounded, integrative, and relatable. She is also a devoted teacher and student of A Course in Miracles — the profound work of spiritual psychotherapy.
Descendant of Indigenous Faith Healers
15+ years in Healthcare & Leadership from Administrative to Clinical to Administration
LEAN Six Sigma Green Belt
Somatic Practitioner
Degree in Business
Degree in Psychology, Human Development & Indigenous Studies
Trained & Certifications by Master Shi Heng Yi
Certified Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy
Certified Mental Health First Aid
Trained by Experts such as Peter Levine, Gabor Mate, Richard Schwartz, Deb Dana, Stephen Porges, The Ruiz Family, Deepak Chopra and much more.
Disciplines such Muay Thai, Boxing, Jiu Jitsu, QiGong, Tai Chi, Eastern Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), IFS, EMDR, EFT, Hakomi, Ho'oponopono, and much more.
From Lived-Experience to Professional Arts: Ancestral and Generational Trauma, Family Constellations, Indigenous Medicine.
Student and Teacher of A Course In Miracles™
Featured Teacher at The Omega Institute, home of Ram Dass and Wayne Dyer.
US Ambassador of Peace (UN-PAF) United Nations NGO PAF
Named “Editor’s Choice” via Elephant Journal
Featured by TEDx, RYLA Hawai’i, Elephant Journal, Thrive Global
Named “Most Valuable Mission” through her company’s movement, ARM by RealLeaders Magazine
Ceremonial Cacao Practitioner
Professional Overview
“When I was little, I grew up around heavy bags, speed bags, kick mats, and boxing with my dad. Looking back, I now understand how important it was for us to have that in our home. I always found myself downstairs boxing or working out whenever ‘heavy’ emotions came up — not knowing what they were, how to ‘deal’ with them, or why they felt so overwhelming at times.
And yet, I was always led back to movement: to the bag, to creating, building, or working (a lot). Not in an addicted type of way—I truly loved my work and identified with it entirely, and it allowed me to unknowingly wield and channel my energy into heart-led service.
In my teenage years, I traumatically lost someone very important to me, inches away from me, and it directly altered the way I saw life, myself, and others. Since then, sight — in many forms — has become a profound teacher in my life. The way we see. How we see. Why we see what we see — or don’t see.