Monisha Mittal is an organizational consultant with 20 years experience linking people to solutions. She works as an IT professional in the federal contracting space where she is a trained facilitator with a passion for creating high-engagement spaces which foster collaboration and group problem-solving. She is the founder of Your Inner Ease, an inspirational website that also sheds light on her whole-brain listening and consulting services for people in transition. Monisha’s approach is deeply informed by community organizing principles of participation and engagement. After serving on the Heal My Voice Board for two years, she stepped into the President’s role at the start of 2015.

 Why Heal My Voice?

I am here because I feel our stories matter. They are what is left of us when we’re gone.  Our stories are not about what happens to us, the events of our lives. That is not our story. Its what takes place in here, inside our skin. We are the story. A living story. And we carry around the people that came before us and will come after. We carry around the experiences that made us and what we will become So Heal My Voice is an invitation to explore you as story.

I am also a huge Byron Katie fan. She asks who we would be without our story. A Heal My Voice writing project helps you take a sliver of your life and allows you to take the time to explore and understand what was true for you in it. And maybe…you let go of a certain narrative, maybe, you experience healing. Maybe, you experience transformation of the sort where you feel, as the wise ones say—that your life happens for you, and not to you. Whatever it is, being with your truth–safely,  authentically, vulnerably allows us to claim our power and connects us to our desires. Its freeing, and sexy!

Monisha Mittal completed a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a Masters in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She currently lives in Fairfax, VA with her husband. She is the co-founder for the first literary festival for South Asian writing held in Washington D.C. “Raising Voices” (now SALTAF). She is the author of two stories published in separate Heal My Voice anthologies, Inspired Voices and Feminine Voices: True Stories of Women Transforming Leadership.