I am often asked if I am a life coach. The answer is no. And kind of yes.

Although life coaching is currently used to describe an incredibly wide variety of activities, it primarily deals with actions and events. Things like clearing away clutter, creating a sustainable budget, or learning time management skills.

Spiritual coaching (at least my version of it) penetrates beneath the level of habits and behaviors to the thoughts, feelings and beliefs that initiated them. And then even below that to the universal principles of well-being and consciousness.

It is the vehicle and GPS to your own innate wisdom, engaging principles that have been utilized for thousands of years to heal physical and psychological ailments. I work specifically with the bothersome stuff – sadness, grief, discontent, anger and resentment – giving you the means to turn your suffering into the gateway for grace and joy.

I hold firmly to the understanding that nothing is ‘wrong’. You may be like a magnificent antique, which has been covered by a few layers of dust and grime, or like the masterpiece hidden in a raw piece of marble whose excess just needs to be chiseled away. The divine perfection is never in question.

My method, based on Awareness, Alignment and Activation, brings what’s in the dark, to a safe well-lit space, where everything feels and works better. There’s not an area of life that cannot be improved, including:

• Physical health and vitality
• Sleep
• Relationships – personal, professional, family, intimate, etc.
• Contentment and satisfaction
• Mental clarity
• Emotional resilience
• Diminishing negative and reactive states

When we become aware of the seeds that formed our destructive habits (and we all have them…), it creates an opening to become nourished at the deepest levels.

What happens in a spiritual coaching session?

Mostly, we talk. I ask you the questions that will best reveal your story and your needs. Often, the question is enough to spark the awareness of your issue’s true source. Or maybe it reframes the situation in a way that invites a whole new set of responses.

I regularly reach into my extensive tool belt and pull out a few other deeply healing practices. Breath is the connection between our conscious and subconscious minds, and can be used to access what resists being seen or known. Movement can dislodge what is stuck. Visualization and role-play allow for a safe place to practice the new way of being.

Change, in the physical world, is a stepwise process, but on an energetic level, it is instantaneous. (Read more about it here.) Our sessions (and the periods that follow them) are full of a-ha moments, where the stories, beliefs and reactions that no longer serve you dissolve. Implementation happens back in the beautiful chaos of life, and can often feel like we are resisting a very tight elastic band.

That’s where consistent support comes in handy. Although you have seen and felt something new, the draw of the old way of being can be intense.

Our work, and your journey, is crafted to give you the right amount of progress and the right amount of integration so that there is no dramatic snap-back. A hand that is both gentle and firm can make the difference between a momentary shift and a better life.

This particular hero’s journey can feel like the yellow brick road. As you get closer to your truth, the obstacles can seem more formidable (that’s the sign you’re getting closer, by the way) and traveling there with someone who sees what you can’t, and believes what you doubt, is crucial. An experienced guide understands the beauty beneath your pain and can help reveal grace that blossoms like a lotus through swampy waters.

That’s what I do. Want to do it with me? I’d love that.

More info here.

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