So tell me…
what’s on your heart?
(I hope this feels like an exhale.)
We spend so much of our lives being told who we should and should not be.
We inherit stories, expectations and beliefs from the world about who we're supposed to become, long before we've ever had the chance to ask ourselves who we truly are. Somewhere along the way, we’ve become so disconnected from ourselves that we no longer know what's true. We cannot hear our intuition. We don't always know what we feel, what we need, what we want, or even what we believe.
The Heartwork Lab was born from a question I’ve asked myself over and over again:
What’s on your heart?
There isn’t always an immediate answer. But I've found that real change begins the moment we're willing to ask the question—and brave enough to stay and listen.
Heartwork is the practice of returning to this question at any given moment and learning to meet yourself with honesty instead of judgment, curiosity instead of certainty, and devotion instead of self-abandonment. Over time, you begin to recognize your own voice beneath the noise, trust what's true for you, and offer yourself grace. You will learn what it means to belong to yourself.
This is the work I've devoted my life to.
Welcome to The Heartwork Lab.
The relationship that
shapes everything.
Choose to belong to yourself
The most important relationship you'll ever have is the one you have with yourself. I know that sentence has become a bit of a cliché. But beneath it is a truth that's shaped my life and the lives of the people I've had the privilege of walking alongside.
The words you speak to yourself. The way you respond to your mistakes. The way you honor your needs, move through uncertainty, and make decisions. These moments whether big or small become the foundation of how you experience your life.
But most of us were never taught how to be in relationship with ourselves. We learned how to achieve, perform, produce, and care for everyone else. We weren't taught how to listen inward with honesty, compassion, and curiosity.
Heartwork is my answer to that.
What is
The Heartwork Lab?
Find yourself here
Many healing approaches tend to focus only on parts of who we are.
The Heartwork Lab exists to hold you in your completeness and complexity, as someone wonderfully whole and human. Here, mind, body, and spirit are not separate conversations. They belong to each other.
Whether in 1:1 Momentum journeys, workshops, or other Heartwork offerings, the work moves with what is present for you and calls for your attention. Each session begins with what is actually here and on your heart.
We create the conditions for your nervous system to settle and for your inner world to feel steady enough to speak. From there, we let it lead the way, allowing you to tell newer, truer stories.
The Heartwork Method
At its core, the Heartwork method rests on a few essential principles:
Somatic. We step out of the noise and into the body to listen to its signals, its rhythms, its felt sense. We gently work with the nervous system to build real safety, the kind you can deeply feel. Movement and awareness clear what the busy mind alone cannot.
Spiritual. We make room for intuition, prayer, and the divinity that moves through all things. Whether you call it God, Spirit, Source, The Divine, or something else entirely, we honor your relationship with what feels sacred. The language matters less than the connection. Love is always the throughline.
Relational. Rooted in kapwa (the Filipino belief that your identity is woven into mine, and mine into yours), we honor our shared humanity. Healing deepens when you are held as an extension of another person with empathy and care. You can remove your masks. You do not have to perform here.
Experimental. You try on new ways of being. You explore how you meet your thoughts, move with your emotions, and listen to what your body is holding. You begin to discover what feels right and true for you. You decide what stays and what you leave behind. This agency deepens your self-trust and makes your intuition easier to hear.
Joy. Joy is not separate from healing. It is medicine. It teaches your mind, body, and spirit what safety feels like and reminds you that transformation does not always have to be heavy to be real. Play is spiritual and laughter is sacred. Healing can hold depth and levity at the same time.
This is the spirit of Heartwork. The work meets you exactly where you are.
What shifts
Over time, you become steadier.
You begin paying attention to yourself, moment to moment. You think, breathe, move, speak with more intention. You build the capacity to be with yourself and feel your emotions without becoming completely undone. Your energy changes. You recognize where your own self-love has been absent and practice it until it flows naturally. You trust your own discernment and remember your power. You learn to choose yourself, over and over again.
At The Heartwork Lab, you will know and love yourself better.
“I have arrived. I am home.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Me, as I am.
Monica Tuy, Heartwork embodied
For most of my life, I wasn’t at peace with myself. I lived with a bravado to disguise deep insecurity and masked it with more: more success, more material things, more accolades. From the outside, I looked steady and accomplished, but inside there was a disharmony I could not shake.
I was running on empty from this emotional and spiritual deficit, and eventually I hit a wall. I began desperately searching for a way back home to myself. Over the years, I immersed myself in many healing modalities—therapy, energy work, somatic practices, spiritual traditions, and different philosophical frameworks. I studied under many teachers, and explored and tested what I was learning in my own life. I learned to discern what felt right and true for me from concepts that sounded good in theory. In my trial and error, I realized that no single practice or method could contain the depth of my healing.
Every road led me back to the same question: What is on my heart? The real work was not just asking the question, but in embodying the answer and feeling safe in my body to hold more. More love. More peace. More clarity. This wisdom became the foundation of The Heartwork Lab.
Slowly but surely, I learned to show up in my life wiser, softer, more aware, and more honest. I stopped trying to avoid and outrun myself. I stopped searching for my worthiness in other people, places and things. Now I tell truer stories about who I am. I exhale more deeply because I feel safe within body. My life feels fuller now. Even lovelier. Not because the world has changed, but because I have.
At The Heartwork Lab, I guide others inward in the same way I learned to go all the way inward myself. I hold this healing work with depth and devotion, and I will speak love over your Heartwork journey. This space is my life’s Heartwork.
You & Heartwork.
You choosing you
Maybe your life looks good on paper, but something inside you still feels unsettled.
Maybe you are strong and capable, the one others rely on, and yet there are parts of you no one really sees.
Maybe you have done so much introspective work already, and still, there is a quiet knowing that there is so much more for you.
More honesty.
More depth.
More of you.
And I want to say this gently—it is not selfish to want more. It is not dramatic. It is not too much, and neither are you.
If there is something on your heart that wants to be met more fully, to be known more deeply, to live more truthfully…it’s okay to listen to it.
…I really hope you do.
“When the teacher opens up it allows for the students to feel welcome to open up in this environment and to also feel relaxed. One's aura and environment makes a world of a difference and Monica provides that. The vibration and change is palpable by the end of the workshop. It’s beautiful.
— A.L.
“I left Monica’s workshop feeling lighter, feeling unconditional love from source/myself/and for others - it was beautiful. The connects made there and the shadows that come up weere the perfect place to do so. I was comfortable being vulnerable and open because Monica set the tone for that. My shadows were able to be hugged because Monica softly gave me the space to do so. I truly loved my time during and after the workshops I’ve done with Monica - and would absolutely do more again in the future.”
— M.C.
“Honestly, I'm someone who goes to therapy, does their journaling, and names 5 things I'm grateful for as soon as I open my eyes. I thought I was doing ‘the work’, but oh... I was so wrong. The Heartwork Workshop was such a beautiful and eye-opening experience. As Monica guided us, pouring all the *honey light*, she shared a little bit of her own story... and I felt like I was looking at myself in the mirror. I was faced with parts of myself that I didn't want to see but I sat in that safe space, feeling the overwhelming emotions, and allowed myself to just *be* (I still tear up thinking about it). While it wasn't comfortable, it was exactly what I needed and I left the Heartwork Workshop feeling so much lighter and centered, and more connected with myself than ever before.”
— P.S.
