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If you are in an ongoing quandary about the essential nature of your being, be it spiritual, religious or secular, I offer myself as a guide. If you are tired of feeling stuck, exhausted by your mental chatter, feel unable to move forward with your plans, have lost your creative spark, are suffering the shifts inside of you that you cannot describe or explain, or living with a grief that feels too hot to hold and too big to bear, I offer myself as a doula for awakened living: coach, mentor, compassionate witness, mentor, adviser, friend.
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Working toward my own self-growth and working with clients (energy healing, wellness coaching, spiritual direction, pastoral grief counseling) has brought me to this understanding: We get stuck looking for answers outside ourselves, and follow one seeking path after another, only to find ourselves thirsty at every well.
As an ordained non-denominational minister and former founding director of a small spiritual community, I get it.
I get why people are lost and spellbound. I get why people get really angry when the spell is broken. I get why people need meaning. I get that some people are drawn to search for and honor a universal meaning and truth, and that others are born to create their own lives of personal meaning and truth. I get that one system is not more valuable than the other.
As an ordained non-denominational minister and former founding director of a small spiritual community, I get it.
I get why people are lost and spellbound. I get why people get really angry when the spell is broken. I get why people need meaning. I get that some people are drawn to search for and honor a universal meaning and truth, and that others are born to create their own lives of personal meaning and truth. I get that one system is not more valuable than the other.
I get that people need community to survive and to thrive, and that civilization depends on it. I get that ceremony, ritual, and the blessings of a compassionate community are essential for the human heart, and for some, a healthy human condition. I get that humans feel the need to do good works, and to care for others of like and un-like ken. I get why humans need to be creators, and that creating all sorts of illusions and delusions is part of the deal. I get that some people differ about what creation is, whose idea of creation is true, and why a fight ensues when in denial about our own heart's poverty.
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I get why people are afraid to live and why they are afraid to die. I get why unattended sorrow kills. I get why believers and non-believers alike think that they are fundamentally different, and find it unthinkable to bridge the seemingly impossible gap. I get why so many are hurting and angry and sad and lonely - struggling to survive in the midst of lives of great wealth, promise and unlimited potential. I get that there are no answers. I get that the questions themselves are the prize, and I get why few people believe that. I get that we need to be seen and to be heard. I get why we long to believe that our lives matter. I get that they do. |
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If you have an irrepressible longing for freedom, strength, and maturity, and are committed to come to the truth of what you are (not what I or anyone else think you might be), I am willing to help you get there, by cutting through the crap, the self-deception, the over-indulgence, the wishful and magical thinking, the fear, the inertia, the grief.
What I will ask of you, is that you be willing to observe the crutches of your identity that hold you back from stepping fully into life, from being in the truth of what is happening in this moment, from bearing witness to everything that is here, and from acknowledging it as present experience showing up as you. I will ask that you value your humanity, and that you commit to becoming your best human self. That you drop blame, and take on responsibility. That you drop concepts of reward and punishment as your system of morality. That you take responsibility for your accomplishments, as well as your failures, and understand that your pitfalls are here for your own witness, to inspire courage, growth, mercy, compassion, and forgiveness.
All you really have to do is show up. Show up like life matters, like you matter, like I matter, like everything and everyone matters. If it is truly freedom that you want, and you are interested in dismantling this quarrelsome self, in questioning every conditioned thought you have ever held, in living passionately in this world, in working in a space of authentic reflection, and fully experiencing your precious human condition, there is a possibility that you have stumbled into me at a very good time. If this process does not frighten you, even just a bit, you may be in deep denial. If you are nervous at the prospect of completely losing your self, in order to re-gain your freedom and take back your life, but feel that your options are dwindling, welcome here.
All you really have to do is show up. Show up like life matters, like you matter, like I matter, like everything and everyone matters. If it is truly freedom that you want, and you are interested in dismantling this quarrelsome self, in questioning every conditioned thought you have ever held, in living passionately in this world, in working in a space of authentic reflection, and fully experiencing your precious human condition, there is a possibility that you have stumbled into me at a very good time. If this process does not frighten you, even just a bit, you may be in deep denial. If you are nervous at the prospect of completely losing your self, in order to re-gain your freedom and take back your life, but feel that your options are dwindling, welcome here.
Life is a series of deaths and births, experienced one after another. Exploring our fear and resistance to these happenings is an opportunity to fully experience life as it is, as you are. It is also an unparalleled opportunity to compassionately die to our bodies, without fear or regret, when that aspect of our life-cycle draws upon us.
I offer a 15 minute complimentary phone consultation to see if working together will be of value to you.
All sessions facilitated via Zoom.
60 minute sessions are $90.
Special offering: my 3,6,9 packages: purchase three, six, or nine sessions, receive 3%, 6% or 9% discounts.
I offer a 15 minute complimentary phone consultation to see if working together will be of value to you.
All sessions facilitated via Zoom.
60 minute sessions are $90.
Special offering: my 3,6,9 packages: purchase three, six, or nine sessions, receive 3%, 6% or 9% discounts.