Is Coaching The Future of Healing? | With Mendy Klein

Is Coaching The Future of Healing? | With Mendy Klein

How do people find strength in their journey to sobriety? This conversation between Sony Perlman and life coach Mendy Klein gives you a rare mix of street‑level experience, deep spirituality, and body‑based healing that speaks straight to anyone dealing with addiction, trauma, or both. Mendy shares how his own lifelong therapy and early shame around coming from a divorced home pushed him to keep searching for ways to heal.

That curiosity eventually led him from business into full‑time work with teens at risk, people in deep pain, and those stuck in addiction. Sony recalls a case they worked on together that felt "nothing less than a miracle" and uses it to ask the big question: is coaching part of the future of healing?

You’ll hear Mendy talk about somatic work, breathwork and transforming touch – gentle, intentional touch aimed at calming the nervous system, supporting the heart, kidneys and adrenals, and helping the body release stored fight‑or‑flight responses. He links these methods with ideas from Kabbalah, Chassidus and classic Jewish texts, showing how trauma in the body and pain in the soul are inseparable.

For anyone who’s sat in 12‑step rooms but feels stuck, Mendy describes working with people who couldn’t move past the early steps because God felt like a "boogeyman". His approach: let people safely express their anger at God, bring compassion to their bodies, and slowly rebuild a different relationship with the divine and with themselves.

Throughout, he keeps coming back to one core message: believe in yourself, and remember there’s a "pharmacy" of healing already inside you – emotionally, spiritually and physically. If you’re wondering whether coaching could add something real to your recovery toolkit, this conversation might be the nudge you’ve been waiting for. What part of your own inner pharmacy are you ready to tap into next?