About HLBI
Human Liberation & Balance Institute
Welcome
At HLBI, we understand that embodied healing arises through the restoration of balance—within ourselves, across our relationships, and throughout our systems.
In a world lost to disconnection, shaped by domination and heavy with inherited trauma, our work is a steady invitation back to wholeness. We walk alongside individuals, communities, and institutions to recover what has been buried: the powerful inner wisdom that lives within us all, and the knowing that a life of balance and well-being is our birthright.
MISSION
With care and collaboration, we support individuals and communities to unmask how trauma, culture, and systemic forces create and perpetuate disconnection and imbalance, so that we can reclaim the wisdom and purpose rooted within us, and co-create lives and systems designed to sustain well-being, justice, and collective thriving.
VISION
We envision a world where all people are free to live in alignment with their truth and supported by systems that honor dignity, nourish interconnection, and protect the sacred balance of all life on this planet..
A Personal Invitation
From Cindy Lamb, Founder of HLBI
From an early age, I felt an undeniable calling to serve others—a deep pull toward easing pain, offering support, and fostering healing. That call shaped the course of my life and became the foundation of my work.
My journey began in education and expanded into clinical practice, where I’ve spent more than two decades walking alongside others in their most vulnerable moments.
Whether navigating trauma, grief, identity, or transformation, I’ve helped clients uncover their strength, cultivate clarity, and align with their authenticity.
I’ve come to understand that healing is complex, both a personal journey and a collective responsibility. The systems, power structures, and narratives that shape our lives must also evolve to align with the biological and ecological principles that govern all life.
This is why I created HLBI.
What HLBI Stands For
Why This Matters: The Presence and Absence of Our Fundamental Requirements for Balance and Well-Being
We hold these as fundamental human birthrights—non-negotiable, sacred, and necessary for healing, balance, and liberation.
This is the foundation of regulation and resilience. When we are supported biologically, by safe environments, adequate rest, nourishment, and rhythm, we thrive.
But when our bodies are denied safety, rest, or balance, we adapt in unsustainable ways like illness, shutdown, or overdrive.
When imbalance is normalized, we mistake it for strength.
Understanding how our bodies and systems function empowers us to name what shapes us.
Without this literacy, we internalize pain as personal failure, never seeing the structures that hold it in place.
We mistake generational wounds with personal failure.
Autonomy is the bedrock of selfhood. It allows us to act in alignment with who we truly are.
When denied, we fragment, contort, and perform.
Authenticity becomes a risk instead of a right.
We are wired for connection. When we are seen, safe, and valued, healing becomes possible.
Without belonging, we isolate, people-please, or armor up.
We mistake survival strategies for personality traits.
This Wisdom does not belong to one person, group, or tradition. It lives between us.
We grow when we learn from one another and act in service of the greater good.
When hoarded or silenced, wisdom becomes dogma.
Power becomes control, and knowledge becomes gatekeeping.
Truth is a liberating force. When we name what is, we reclaim our agency.
In its absence, confusion reigns, harm goes unnamed, and healing is delayed.
Silence becomes complicity.
Justice is not vengeance, it is restoration. It brings accountability and creates the conditions for healing.
Without it, harmful cycles repeat.
Harm calcifies into culture.
Imagination is the doorway to transformation. It allows us to envision lives, relationships, and systems that do not yet exist.
Without it, we recycle harm with new packaging.
We forget that imagination is the catalyst for evolution.
Stewardship is care with consequence. It calls us to tend to the ecosystems, within and around us, that sustain life.
Without stewardship, we exploit and extract.
The pursuit of personal gain eclipses our shared humanity.
At HLBI, these birthrights are commitments.
Commitments to restoring what has been harmed.
To honoring what sustains life.
To building lives, relationships, and systems that reflect our deepest values.
Birthrights ae blueprints for collective thriving. And our work is to bring them into practice - within ourselves, and within the world we are shaping together.
How We Work
At HLBI, we approach healing and transformation as layered, relational, and systemic. There is no one-size-fits-all path. Instead, we meet people, communities, and institutions where they are—offering tools, insights, and support that align with both immediate needs and long-term restoration.
We draw from an integrative framework that includes:
Clinical and Neurobiological Wisdom
Somatic and Experiential Practices
Systems Thinking and Cultural Analysis
Spiritual and Mythopoetic Frameworks
Liberatory Ethics and Trauma-Informed Care
We move at the speed of trust.
We walk alongside.
We support the reclaiming of inner alignment and the reimagining of systems that serve the highest good.
