I feel the work I do is sacred.
All week long people tell me their greatest desires, hopes, and dreams for their lives. Sometimes they have never told anyone else the thoughts that lie dormant in their hearts. They are often passively waiting for the right conditions and circumstances to present themselves so they may realize these dreams and create a life they truly love.
It takes courage, tenacity and fortitude to create a well-lived life. Most of us are just trying to get by and dodge the next mishap.
Yet, I find deep within the hearts of most people I speak with there is a field of hidden treasures and buried jewels just waiting to be uncovered and paid attention to.
Why is it that we tend to not discuss such things and, in many cases, never allow these dreams to see the light of day?
As a holistic psychotherapist and life coach, I work with clients all week long who are going through major transitions of one kind or another; relationship endings and beginnings, career changes, geographic changes, death or loss of a loved one, health challenges, etc.
In my recent blog entitled, Is Your Old Life Dying?, I wrote about the way in which life is speeding up these days and so many of us are seeing our old lives fall away while being called to birth something new. Many times we have no idea what this new life is supposed to be or how we are going to create it, but the old way of living simply feels outdated, suffocating, uninspired and boring. I especially see this in the clients I work with who are in their late 30’s to mid-fifties and beyond.
I recently attended a conference with my mentor coach and 150 women who are currently taking her year-long coach training program. My mentor is a highly successful, well-known, accomplished, transformational coach who teaches the business, mindset, and coaching skills to create a thriving business in this field. She has developed a multi-million dollar coaching company, which is rare in this field, knows what it takes to do so, and teaches by example as any true mentor does.
I have been a participant this year in a program called Your Year of Miracles led by NY Times best-selling author Marci Shimoff and success expert Debra Poneman. The program has had some of the most notable inspirational teachers, thought leaders and authors as weekly guest speakers and we have been taught some of the best tools available for making life changes.