Kyla Mitsunaga is the kind of guest who can wear an emotional support headband, talk about death, dementia, money, shame, sensuality, and family systems, and somehow make the whole room feel lighter, and she did exactly that on DWYP. A Harvard-trained, award-winning former professor, Kyla is also a third culture kid born and raised in Hong Kong, and she knows what it feels like to not belong. She was bullied as a child, bullied as an adult, and raised with a mother whose criticism became a voice she had to learn how to stop carrying.

But instead of letting shame define her, Kyla turned toward it, witnessed it, acknowledged it, and made not belonging her medicine. We dive into family constellations, belonging, dementia, death, money, pleasure, and what it means to stop carrying definitions that were never yours to begin with. Kyla shares how her mother’s early onset dementia led her into a deep depression, then into the healing work that became the Mitsunaga Method, a path back to the light no matter how dark it gets.

This episode is for you if:

• You have ever felt like you did not belong.
• You have carried shame that was never yours.
• You have been the one holding too much for your family.
• You are watching someone you love change through illness, dementia, or decline.
• You want a new relationship with death, money, sensuality, or your own body.
• You are ready to stop living inside definitions handed to you by family, culture, or society.
• You believe healing can be deep, sacred, hilarious, and a little bit fucking fun.

Kyla is currently enrolling the next July cohort of BAM, Our Business And Money mastermind, beginning end of July 2026:

https://www.kylamitsunaga.com/bam.html

You can also find Kyla’s free and paid Family Constellations events on her Luma calendar:

https://luma.com/familyconstellationswithkyla