Today we’d like to introduce you to Monica Inthavong.
Hi Monica, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
My story really begins long before The Light Between ever existed, before grief, before entrepreneurship, before I understood what intentional intuition even was. It begins with my family, survival, and the understanding that life could change in an instant.
My father suffered a traumatic brain injury when he was 17 years old. The only version of him I ever knew was the man shaped by that experience, a man who had to rebuild his life around limitations he never asked for. Because of that, I was raised with a very specific worldview: nothing is guaranteed because everything can change in an instant. Being an only child, my parents taught me early that I needed to know how to survive, adapt, and become independent because tragedy could happen at any moment. I grew up learning to prepare for the inevitable.
That mindset shaped me deeply. It made me resourceful, hyper-aware, emotionally perceptive, and fiercely independent from a young age.
At the same time, my father was incredibly generous with what he did have. My mother immigrated to the United States from the Philippines. One of my father’s missions in life was to help her family build opportunities here too. My grandmother (I called her Mamang) became one of the central figures in my childhood after arriving when I was around 2 years old and lived with us until I was about 14. I was rooted in the language, the culture, the food, and friends who were first generation like me. Over the years, multiple aunts immigrated to the U.S. as well, and our home became deeply rooted in family, sacrifice, resilience, and collective support. I grew up watching people rebuild lives from nothing, carry enormous burdens quietly, and continue moving forward anyway.
Alongside all that practicality and survival-mindedness, there was another side of my life that I rarely talked about.
I didn’t grow up wanting to become a psychic medium or spiritual entrepreneur. In many ways, this was something I spent years trying not to be.
Exposure to the metaphysical and intuitive world has been a silver lining. I’m a 3rd generation New Orleanian and a 3rd generation intuitive. I always knew my great grandmother on my father’s side was what they called a “fortune teller” in her time. She read tea leaves, tarot, and palms. Those abilities passed down to a few of my grandmother’s siblings and those few hid their amazing abilities. There are stories shared within the family of occurrences but none of which were openly discussed.
As a child, I experienced things I couldn’t explain. I would see people others couldn’t see and noticed glowing colors around people before I even understood what energy was. I remember asking my great aunt about it because I’ve come to learn she was very much familiar with the metaphysical world. She always answered my questions and explained what was happening but instead of encouraging it, she told me to turn it off. She warned me that if I leaned too far into it, I could get “sucked in.” She left me with this one solid piece of guidance that became a part of my instinct. She taught me to approach anything overwhelming through love, discernment, boundaries, and light rather than fear. I was around 7 or 8 years old when she told me this, so I shut that part of myself down as much as I could for as long as I could.
Even when I ignored it, my intuition still found ways to come through during major moments in my life. I had visitation dreams from loved ones who had passed. I experienced premonitions that came true within months to a year later. I could read people’s moods, energy, and emotional states without realizing not everyone could do that naturally. I just thought I was highly perceptive or just compassionately empathetic.
Meanwhile, outwardly, I graduated with a BS in Civil Engineering and built a successful career in business development within the engineering industry. I became strategically, relationship-driven, and achievement-oriented. I learned how to communicate, lead, network, and create opportunities. From the outside, my life looked very grounded, logical, and professional.
Fast forward to December of 2023, my father unexpectedly passed away. Intuitively, I already knew this was coming sooner rather than later. I had just given birth to my second child, who was born 10 weeks premature.
Ironically, I had spent my entire life preparing for that moment. However, anticipatory grief and actual grief are two very different things. Nothing truly prepares you for the moment the person who helped shape your entire understanding of the world is suddenly gone.
One night after his death, I stood in front of his ashes completely shattered. I remember crying and yelling, “Where are you? I know I can do this. I just don’t know how.”
That was the moment my entire life changed.
It felt like a dam breaking open. Intuitive impressions, dreams, emotions, and unexplained experiences flooded in all at once. Everything except the one person I was desperately trying to reach: my dad.
That period of my life was overwhelming, emotional, beautiful, and deeply transformative all at the same time. It forced me to learn discernment, grounding, boundaries, and how to navigate these experiences in a healthy and compassionate way instead of from fear I was pouring from an empty cup while trying to be present as a mother to two young girls, a wife to my amazing husband, and a daughter helping my mother navigate everything my dad had always handled. At the same time, we were going through probate in Louisiana, grieving Mamang less than 30 days after my dad, and I was still trying to maintain composure at work with a smile on my face.
I tried to live what looked like a “normal” life from the outside. I pretended I was ok, when all I wanted to do was withdraw from everyone and everything. For a long time, I thought my personal life and business life were two parts of me that couldn’t coexist. I’d strategically keep personal things out of my work life to have normalcy in each one but eventually realized they absolutely could and needed to coexist. They absolutely had been before I even knew it.
I sought therapy, which guided me right to where I needed to be. I was open to the metaphysical and knew it was only a matter of time before I sought the guidance of a medium. Because of the stigma surrounding psychic work, I was careful about who I trusted. I wanted someone grounded, ethical, and serious about evidence and discernment. That search led me to the Windbridge Institute and eventually to Ginger Quinlan, a verified medium who became my mentor. That experience helped me approach mediumship with more structure, discernment, and responsibility.
In business development, I learned to read people long before I called it intuition. You learn to sense trust, hesitation, openness, tension, and connection in a room. You learn when someone feels safe, when they are guarded, and when a conversation has real energy behind it. Eventually, I realized my intuitive life and professional life were never separate. They had been speaking the same language all along.
Once I realized I had been using intuitive perception throughout my life and career, I began to embrace the abilities I had once blocked out. That realization led me to create The Light Between LLC, where I offer evidential mediumship and intuitive guidance for people navigating grief, healing, and major life transitions. At its heart, my work is about helping people feel less alone in the moments that emotionally crack them open.
There is often misunderstanding around intuitive work and mediumship. My approach is grounded in compassion, healing, discernment, and emotional support for people navigating grief and major life transitions. Intuition does not always look mystical or magical. Sometimes it looks like empathy, emotional awareness, and the ability to notice what people are carrying before they have the words to say it.
Today, I’m still a wife, mother, business development professional, and entrepreneur. More than anything, I’ve learned that people are craving permission to fully be themselves, logical and intuitive, strong and sensitive, ambitious and deeply human all at once. My mission is less about convincing people of anything and more about creating a grounded, compassionate space where people can explore healing, connection, and meaning without shame or fear.
The Light Between has continued growing organically through private sessions, wellness collaborations, community events, and referrals. I read at the monthly wellness events at Altered State Wellness in Richardson and have done events in Downtown Garland for Frocksy/Karin Wiseman Collection. I also collaborate with Reiki healer Laura Tulumbas and other local wellness practitioners.
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
No, it hasn’t been a smooth road. One of the biggest challenges has been learning how to talk about intuitive and spiritual work in a way that feels grounded, responsible, and accessible. There are many misconceptions around mediumship, but for me, this path has never been about fear, performance, or proving anything to anyone. It was born through heartbreaking loss, deep questioning, and the need to make sense of experiences that changed the way I understood grief, connection, and healing. My work is rooted in compassion, discernment, and the belief that spirituality is less about escaping real life and more about reconnecting with yourself, with God, and with your own humanity through awareness, intention, and love.
One of the hardest parts was learning how to hold these experiences while still showing up fully in everyday life as a wife, mother, business development leader, and entrepreneur. After holding back this side of myself for so long, I had to unlearn fear and learn how to trust what I was sensing without letting it overwhelm me. That required grounding, boundaries, self-awareness, and the humility to know this work is never about ego or performance. Honestly, there were moments where I wanted to shut it all down because it would have been easier or so I thought. Entrepreneurship itself has been humbling. Building something from the heart is vulnerable. You’re putting a deeply personal part of yourself into the world and hoping it resonates with people. There’s no guaranteed roadmap for that. I’ve learned that authenticity connects more deeply than trying to appear polished or perfect.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about The Light Between LLC?
I’m Intuitive Psychic Medium. I offer Psychic/Mediumship Readings and animal communication. I use no tools all my guidance from from my spirit team and those of the person getting read (sitter).
What would you say have been one of the most important lessons you’ve learned?
The most important lesson I’ve learned is that people are craving authenticity, connection, and permission to be fully themselves. For years, I thought I had to separate the “professional” version of me from the intuitive, emotional, spiritual side of me. What I’ve realized is that the most powerful thing I could do was to integrate both.
I’ve also learned that healing is not linear. Grief doesn’t disappear just because you become more spiritual or intuitive. You still have hard days. You still question yourself. However, I’ve learned there’s a difference between being broken by pain and being transformed by it.
I approach this work carefully and responsibly. I never want people to give away their power, avoid real-world support, or make major life decisions solely based on a reading. My role is not to replace therapy, faith, or personal judgment, but to provide a compassionate space for reflection, healing, and connection.
Ultimately, I learned to trust myself over fear, outside noise, and the pressure to fit neatly into one identity. The moment I stopped separating the logical, professional side of myself from the intuitive and emotional side, everything began to align, both personally and professionally.
Looking back, I’ve realized healing rarely arrives the way we expect it to. The experiences that break us open are often the same ones that reconnect us to ourselves, deepen our compassion for others, and awaken parts of life that can’t always be explained, but can be profoundly felt.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.thelightbetween.net
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.light_between/
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