Today we’d like to introduce you to Christian De La Huerta.
Hi Christian, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
I often say that my path has been shaped as much by inner calling as by outer circumstance.
I was born in Cuba and came to the United States as an immigrant at age ten. Like many immigrants, I grew up with a strong awareness of both challenge and possibility. From a young age, I carried a sense that my life needed to be about something meaningful, though I couldn’t yet name what that meant.
Throughout my early adulthood, I followed a path that looked successful from the outside, but by around age 30, I began experiencing a deeper inner questioning. I felt called to step away from the life I had built and embark on a spiritual journey in search of meaning and a more authentic way of living. That journey eventually took me to Hawaii and later to California, where I immersed myself in personal growth, spiritual practice, and transformative communities.
Although I come out of the psychotherapy tradition, I never followed the traditional academic route or pursued a PhD. Instead, I found myself drawn to a more integrative path, blending psychological understanding with psychospiritual teachings from Eastern traditions and contemplative practices. What emerged was an approach that honors the emotional and spiritual dimensions of healing and recognizes that transformation happens in the body.
Over the years, this unconventional journey became the foundation of my work. Rather than choosing between psychology and spirituality, I learned to weave them together, helping people explore relationships, power, and personal growth in ways that feel both deeply human and practically meaningful.
Looking back, what once felt like stepping away from certainty now feels like stepping toward purpose. The search for meaning became the work itself.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
No, it hasn’t been a smooth road. And in truth, I wouldn’t trust a path of real transformation that was.
Choosing the road less traveled meant stepping away from security more than once. When I walked out of the life I had built in my early thirties to search for deeper meaning, there was no guarantee of what would come next. There were moments of doubt, frustration, and fear, for I had given up stability for something intangible. Living in Hawaii and later in California, I was being reshaped from the inside out. And transformation is rarely comfortable while it’s happening.
Professionally, building a nonconventional practice came with its own challenges. I was blending psychology with spiritual and experiential teachings at a time when that integration was far less accepted than it is today. There were years of having to explain myself, of standing in rooms where what I offered didn’t fit into familiar categories. Establishing credibility, spreading the word, and sustaining the work required resilience and a deep belief in the value of what I was offering.
And then came the pandemic, which felt like a profound death and rebirth. Breathwork is one of the healing modalities I use, and suddenly we were living in a world where the very act of breathing together, gathering in shared space, was dangerous. The irony was not lost on me: in a time when people most needed to reconnect to their breath, we couldn’t do it side by side.
That period forced me to confront uncertainty and reinvention once again. It required letting go of how things had always been done and trusting that the essence of the work could survive even if the form had to change.
Looking back, the struggles have been initiations. Each disruption stripped away something that no longer fit and pushed me toward greater alignment. The road hasn’t been smooth, but it has been deeply formative. And I’ve come to see that the challenges weren’t obstacles to the work; they became part of the work.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
At the heart of all my work is transformation, especially in the areas of relationships, power, and authentic, purposeful living.
For more than three decades, I’ve worked as a transformational coach, retreat leader, speaker, and author, guiding individuals and groups through deep inner work that integrates psychology, spirituality, and lived experience. My approach is experiential and embodied. Insight is important, but lasting change happens when people feel something shift inside themselves.
One of the core modalities I use is breathwork, which allows people to access layers of emotion, memory, and self-awareness that are often difficult to reach through conversation alone. Breath becomes both a bridge and a teacher, helping clients release stored tension, reconnect with themselves, and access clarity and resilience. I’ve facilitated this work in intimate retreat settings, corporate environments, conferences, and communities around the world.
Retreats, in particular, are close to my heart. There’s something powerful about stepping away from daily life and entering a dedicated space for reflection and healing. In those environments, transformation accelerates. People reconnect with their truth, reexamine relationship patterns, and often make courageous decisions that reshape the direction of their lives.
Alongside the experiential work, writing and speaking have allowed me to reach a broader audience. I’ve published three books, including Coming Out Spiritually, Awakening the Soul of Power, and most recently, Conscious Love: Transforming Our Relationship to Relationships. Each book reflects a different facet of the same core inquiry: How do we live with greater authenticity, integrity, and love — both with ourselves and with others?
As a speaker, I’ve addressed audiences across the United States and internationally, in universities, conferences, and corporate settings. What I’m known for is creating conversations that are both courageous and compassionate, addressing topics like power, intimacy, identity, and emotional healing in ways that feel grounded and accessible.
What sets my work apart is the integration. I don’t see psychology and spirituality as separate domains. I blend practical tools with deeper inquiry, helping people explore both their conditioning and their capacity for conscious choice. It’s not about fixing people; it’s about helping them remember who they are beneath societal conditioning.
What I’m most proud of, though, isn’t the books or the speaking engagements, it’s the lives I’ve witnessed change. Couples who rebuilt trust. Individuals who found the courage to live authentically after healing significant and often major trauma from their past. Leaders who learned to wield power with integrity. Seeing someone reclaim their inner power and step into a more authentic life — that’s the real measure of the work.
What makes you happy?
What makes me happiest is knowing that something I’ve offered — a conversation, a breathwork session, a retreat, a book — has genuinely helped someone feel more free, more whole, or more alive. There’s a quiet moment I sometimes witness when a person reconnects with themselves in a deeper way, and watching that happen never stops moving me.
I often reflect on a quote attributed to Albert Einstein: that we cannot solve a problem from the same level of consciousness in which it was created. I feel this deeply, both personally and collectively. The challenges we face — in our relationships, our communities, and even as a global culture — cannot be healed by simply working harder within the same old patterns. They ask something more of us. They require a shift in awareness.
I believe the only way we dig ourselves out of the hole we have collectively dug is through a leap in consciousness — a change in how we see ourselves, how we relate to one another, and how we understand our relationship with the planet. My work, in its own humble way, is about supporting that shift. Every coaching session, every retreat, every talk, every breath becomes an invitation to wake up a little more fully.
What gives my life meaning is the sense that I’m participating in something larger than myself — a quiet yet unstoppable spiritual revolution happening one person at a time. When someone leaves a session feeling more connected to their own truth, I feel hopeful. And that hope — that real change is possible, both individually and collectively — is what brings me joy and keeps me devoted to this path.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://soulfulpower.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/christiandlh/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/christian.delahuerta.1
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christiandelahuerta/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4hOzeGdhkTcRxOHkV9tfbQ
