Today we’d like to introduce you to Eva Benmeleh.
Hi Eva, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been fascinated by how imagination becomes reality: the analysis, beliefs, rituals, and small habits that make up a life. I still remember sitting in class reading about rabbinical debates over a single pasuk in the Torah and realizing both sides could be right. It hit me that almost everything we call “truth” is built on belief systems, ones we can flip upside down the moment we choose to.
I grew up wanting to be a mix of a mind reader, a ballerina, and an archaeologist. Think Indiana Jones dancing through the pyramids of Egypt type of thing. It’s how I make sense of the world. I love to read, and movement keeps my thoughts flowing, emotions tempered, and brain functioning. I was caught between exploring life’s mysteries and following the script of the “good girl.” Even though I could see through rules that kept people stuck in black-and-white thinking, I didn’t yet know how to live outside them.
I was great at making people laugh, and could somehow read the room before anyone said a word. Psychology became the natural next step. I went straight through school, earning my PhD in Clinical Psychology, without realizing I was trying to repair the two most important relationships in my life: the one with my mother and the one with myself.
By thirty, I had it all on paper: marriage, doctorate, two beautiful children, and a deep sense that something was missing. The joy and curiosity that had once illuminated my life were buried under the pressure to be perfect. I used to joke that I could balance a porcelain plate on every finger, graceful on the outside, terrified to drop even one. My divorce in 2018 cracked that image wide open. That chapter forced me to face the gap between who I was and who I was pretending to be.
That reckoning became the beginning of my PIE™ framework: Perceive, Integrate, Embody. It is a process of turning self-awareness into self-trust. The deeper I go into my own growth, embedding spiritual practices with traditional psychology, the more powerful and precise my work is with clients. Each step I take from a personal or professional standpoint allows me the grace to see more clearly, offering me opportunities to see and feel more love. I have turned many beliefs over in my mind over the last decade or so, but specifically over the last few years as I shed limiting beliefs and misaligned actions.
Today, I don’t teach people to chase balance or perfection because there’s nothing to chase. We explore the intelligence inside their patterns, the perfection within the mess. My work lives where psychology meets consciousness, where intentional action is the result of a coherent mind and heart connection.
What began as in-person work with adults and children is now a digital ecosystem: curated content, reflective workbooks, a children’s book on divorce, trainings, and therapy sessions worldwide. For me, leadership isn’t about titles or applause. It’s about resonance, showing up as the same person everywhere you go. Whether I’m in session, speaking to a room of executives, or writing my next book, my goal is simple: to help people stop performing growth and start living it.
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
It hasn’t been a smooth road, but that’s the point! For a long time, I believed growth only came through “tough love” and that I could only gain great things through suffering. That mindset kept me stuck in unnecessary struggle. Once I saw that life itself runs on a web of beliefs, I realized I could choose the ones I wanted to live by.
Some are easy to shift; others are buried deep and only surface through lived experience. I often tell clients, “Expectations are sneaky and sinister—you don’t know you have them until life doesn’t go according to your plan.”
Early on, I faced the same challenges many entrepreneurs face: building a business with no formal training, raising two small children, and carrying the guilt of wanting more than survival. My self-esteem was low, my bandwidth was thin, and the pressure to do it all perfectly nearly crushed the joy out of it. But exploring the parts of myself that wanted to live fully expressed without apology has changed everything.
Now, this doesn’t mean that I don’t experience trying and challenging moments, but how I live and work through them has changed dramatically. When a challenging situation appears, I see it as data. When I catch myself comparing or complaining, it’s a sign that I’m off track and need to recalibrate.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about Dr. Eva Benmeleh, LLC?
I work as a clinical psychologist, author, and thought architect, redefining how we understand perfectionism. Through the PIE™ framework: Perceive, Integrate, Embody, we learn that growth isn’t about fixing what’s broken but recognizing the intelligence hidden inside our patterns.
Everything I do stems from one truth: we are far greater than we allow ourselves to believe. To access that greatness, we have to sit with the parts of ourselves we’ve tried to hide. This takes skill, patience, grace, and humility. My work is known for pattern recognition: seeing how belief systems morph through time, relationships, and synchronicities. This is how we tap into our innate power, when we make our patterns conscious and we do something about them.
What sets my work apart is humility, humor, and precision. I don’t claim to have invented the wisdom I teach, only to have organized it through my lived understanding. I’m known for translating complex inner patterns into language that’s both poetic and practical, turning personal evolution into a structured, repeatable system that I call PIE™.
PIE™ is self-mastery through awareness, embodiment, and discernment. PIE integrates clinical depth with symbolic awareness, spirituality without bypass, and strategy without pretense. It’s the full circle of perceiving your belief systems and gaining insight, integrating new information into your life, and embodying a lifestyle that thrives from alignment and reflects your values.
The current services:
The Perfectionist Reset: A 90-minute deep dive applying PIE to a current challenge. Clients leave with a personalized roadmap and next steps.
Three-Month Intensives: A structured container for those ready to process, integrate, and align life and relationships with their truth.
The Perfectionist’s Pause (upcoming): A written and audio guide reframing perfectionism as refinement, not self-rejection.
Future Offerings: Courses for therapists and psychologists on perfectionism and maternal mental health, new group communities, and Love Letters to a Narcissist: a psychological memoir exploring intimacy, projection, and the tension between love and illusion.
The one thing they all have in common: awareness, coherence, and integrity.
How do you think about luck?
Luck plays a big role in life. I didn’t choose my family, my culture, or the circumstances I was born into. I was given opportunities that many people never get, and I’m deeply grateful for them. The fact that I get to do this work, to live a life centered on well-being so I can offer that to others, brings me more joy than I could put into words.
Beyond that, I’m not sure I believe in luck as much as I believe in the space between chronos and kairos: chronological time and perfect timing. Their intersection is where awareness lives. Every so-called “bad moment” is really a recalibration toward something truer, usually after I have ignored the quieter signs. So, beyond luck, I believe it’s my tenacity to learn how to listen and not to judge things as good or bad or lessons, but more so, opportunities to experience.
It keeps the inner critic on vacation mode, the seeker pretty calm, and the one accountable to my life on call. With awareness comes responsibility to act in accordance with what I now know. This typically means foregoing what is comfortable and comforting for a greater unknown. So, when something lucky happens, I take it as twofold – one: I have been preparing for this moment’s arrival, and two: I had no idea I was preparing for its arrival, and now that it’s here, it makes sense why it had to happen in this way.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.drevabenmeleh.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.evabenmeleh/#
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eva-benmeleh-132465a
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Dr.EvaBenmeleh
Image Credits
Andrea Blakesberg
