Coaching is a partnership that magnifies your ability to create and sustain fulfillment in your personal and professional life, and go beyond where you might normally stop. Coaching concentrates on where you are today and what you are willing to do to get where you want to be tomorrow. As the client, in each meeting you choose the focus of the conversation. As I listen, I will ask questions, contribute observations, and support you in designing actions. Our conversations will accelerate your progress by providing clarity and greater focus, expanding your awareness of choice, and challenging and supporting you to move into action.

The coaching conversation rests on the belief that you are naturally whole, creative and resourceful. Through empowering and expanding who you are at the core, your Essence (Authentic Self), coaching assists you in tapping into your inner wisdom to consciously create a life that springs forth from your integrity and most deeply held values.

Why Coaching Works

Successful coaching requires two things:

• You are willing to grow and take action
• There is a gap between where you are now and where you want to be

Coaching works for four primary reasons:

Structure:  Our regular coaching conversations will result in expanding your learning, your clarity, and your options. You will leave each call with a clear action plan of the next steps to take. Email support or quick phone calls are available between sessions to support you in moving forward and to celebrate your evolution. The progress checkpoints that are fundamental to coaching, lend extra accountability and keep you moving forward toward goal achievement.

Expertise:  I have extensive knowledge around the topics I coach, derived from both education and real life experience. I also offer many skills, tools, concepts, and structure to assist you in setting goals, making decisions, and taking action in alignment with your values, your integrity, and who you are at the core.

Often friends, family members and colleagues are willing to lend support. While it is wonderful to have that connection, it frequently comes with bias of what your life should look like. It may even come with hidden agendas. As your coach and partner I come to you without bias and with the understanding that ultimately you know what is best for you and your life. I honor your choices.

Synergy:  You and I become a team and the results produced will be greater than what you can produce on your own. As human beings we all have blind-spots about ourselves; things we don’t see about our own ways of thinking, our beliefs, and our behaviors. I am skilled at identifying blind-spots and supporting you in considering a more expansive view of yourself. In addition, the power of two minds focused on one goal offers greater possibilities and options than doing it alone. You bring your expertise and vision to the call; I bring my expertise and vision. Together we create a powerful partnership to get you the results you are looking for. As your coach, I am completely committed to your success.

Body-Mind Approach: I take a Body-Mind approach to my coaching. This means that your whole self is included in the process; your intellect, emotions, body, and spirit. Why? While your mind (intellect) is a magnificent and essential part of you, it does NOT have all the answers. Your intuition, emotions, body sensations, and Spirit have much to say and great value to add; value that cannot be elicited from the intellectual mind.

Guiding Principles

The Power of Essence: The core of you is pure Essence, your Authentic Self, which is Divine in nature and an endless well of natural goodness. Innately whole and resourceful, you have everything within you (creativity, talent, unique genius, wisdom, and love) to create the life you imagine and beyond. It is the recognition and empowerment of Essence that ultimately produces joy and happiness.

Your Beliefs Create Your Reality: Beliefs are the template through which you see the world and through which you make your decisions. Your beliefs may have made sense and worked for you at the time they were formed, and it is quite possible they are not working for you now. Much discomfort and self-imposed limitation springs from your beliefs. Challenging your beliefs is likely to be essential to creating the life you want. When you change your beliefs, you change your world.

100% Responsibility is the Key: To live a life in which you feel in control and on purpose requires stepping into 100% responsibility for your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Less than that puts you at the effect of outside influences (people and circumstances) where you surrender your power and your happiness. Responsibility is the key to true freedom and being in control of your life.

Love is the Greatest Power: In most of our world cultures, power is thought to be derived from control and force. It is easy to see how this contracted model does not facilitate harmonious relationships or peace. An expansive and enlightened approach calls on the gentle, yet powerful energy of love to create connection, collaboration, cooperation, and intimacy. This is true in all relationships (between people and between nations). The ultimate relationship is with your self. Acquiring possessions and relationships (while satisfying on some level) will not replace the peace, clarity, and integrity that are a natural bi-product of loving yourself.

Emotions are Your Natural Birthright: Emotions are a rich tapestry through which you experience life. Learning to embrace your feelings and use them in an emotionally intelligent way will produce a vital, satisfying life. Failure to honor emotions leads to a slow steady erosion of the spirit resulting in a loss of vitality and connection with yourself and all of life.

Commitment to Yourself is Essential: Being 100% committed to yourself will go a long way to supporting you in stepping into the life that you imagine. Key to your success is also being willing to uncover and shift your unconscious commitments, the commitments that are playing in the background and controlling your life. While many external barriers can stand in the way of you getting what you want, the most prominent barrier likely in the way is you; your thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors.

Appreciation Opens the Doors to Manifestation: Often we get hung up in what we don’t have at the expense of appreciating what we do have. Expressing appreciation frequently for all that you are, all that you have, all that you experience, and all of your important relationships, provides a fertile ground to step into more of what you want. Plus the expansive energy of expressing and experiencing appreciation just feels good! The opposite of appreciation is the contracted energy of entitlement, where you simply take things for granted and shut down the flow of attraction.

Spiritual Centeredness Invites Partnership: Spirituality is a huge topic and there are many ways of believing. Central to living a life of deep meaning and happiness is the belief that there is something larger than you out there. If you are the end-all be-all authority in your world, then you are missing a great partnership with the Divine, the omnipresent energy force sometimes called God (also known by many other names). This force is more than willing to be your partner and support you in easily manifesting a richly abundant life heavily laced with peace and joy.