Life Coaching & Psychotherapy Life Review Inquiry Work Eldercoaching Logistics

  SPIRITUAL LIFE COACHING

There is a larger life and larger love waiting for you. When you take the time to connect to that potential on a regular basis, life and love open in ways that you never expected. I draw upon work that is currently coming into the coaching field, that has been inspired by the joinging of quantum physics and psychology as we align our inner selves and outer actions with the "field of creative potential", we support our personal best and inpired unfolding. By developing compassion toward self and other, and taking those inspired steps that emerge from your own deep listening, an expanded framework for living opens you to greater satisfaction and fulfillment in living. Having a partner you are accountable to will greatly accelerate your momentum and build your confidence.

As your coach I offer you the tools to shorten your learning curve, connect with spirit, focus your intention and make and keep simple contracts with yourself.

HOLISTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY focuses on creating a context for healing that assumes and includes a partnership with spirit or soul. When daily functions dip below the line of normal, exploratory work done both in the body and mind can be a great addition to healing. Much of my work with clients in therapy has addressed loss in one form or another. Because change is the nature of living, loss goes hand and hand with even the best of changes. In addition to losing loved ones, job and place, losses come with each new developmental stage. Losses can be crippling in their effects on functioning, especially when multiplied. Finding the creative potential that within loss and allowing it to grow and flourish is the key to healing.

Coaching can be powerfully transformational. Psychotherapy can facilitate healing and provide the time for in-depth work on a particular issue. Both can re-orient you to approach life in a way that supports you in using more of your vital energies to produce results that are successful and fulfilling. Moving from the "have to" to the what, when and where of powerful choice making provides the maps to make your journey in life easier and more rewarding. When that choice making emerges from the potential within your own heart and soul, rather than the "should be, do and have,” the power that emerges is both purposeful and authentic.

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  LIFE REVIEW

"When people rethink their personal stories, they begin to build a sense of connection and responsibility. They recognize that their actions can matter...They learn to view their personal stories as intertwined with history.”

Paul Rogat Loeb

In his groundbreaking study on adults in midlife "The Third Age", William A. Sadler describes what he calls "second growth"-- a capacity for mindful creative renewal and risk taking that kicks in just as we think "we might be losing it". This trajectory is more complex, deeper and non-linear as compared to our early development .It is informed by "mindful reflection" on the life one has lived and the roads not taken.

Who can benefit from life review, or autobiography? Anyone going through a life transition: Elders, displaced workers, retirees, empty-nesters, mid- lifers, and people confronting terminal illness. All can find a larger sense of meaning, greater sense of personal power, reconciliation of conflicting events and feelings, and an understanding of past adaptive strategies and how they apply to the present.

As a life-review coach, my goal is to guide you in creating an autobiography through writing, speaking and other modalities. It can bring a sense of wholeness and integrity to the unique experiences that have made up your life story. Such a review can yield you a rich starting ground for creative renewal in any stage of life.

VIDEO-TAPING your life review is way to create a legacy for your loved ones that will last through the years, or simply a way to honor the markers of your own life. The taping is done in your home if possible, or in location that is special to you. This work is done by a team and is priced according to complexity and hours needed to create the final product.

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  INQUIRY WORK

"Freedom is possible in every moment. This is the Work. This is the great Undoing."

Byron Katie

The Inquiry Work of Byron Katie is a simple technique for supporting the mind to release its hold on thoughts that create anguish and suffering. I use it as a sole technique for those wanting to do simple exploration of thoughts, and also as a tool in my coaching and psychotherapy, as do many coaches and therapists around the world who have experienced this profound work. I am a graduate of the Nine Day School for the Work and an avid practitioner of Inquiry.

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ELDERCOACHING

In his inspiring book "From Ageing to Sageing", Rabbi Schachter -Shalomi and Ronald Miller propose a new model for Elderhood that is based on breakthroughs in consciousness in the last three decades that seek to "heal the split between spirit and matter and affirm the sacredness of life on Earth". This new paradigm shift affirms Elderhood as potential years of generatively and vital involvement based on acquired wisdom, transcendence and completion.

As an Eldercoach, I work with you to not just review life, but to renew and reseed your wisdom in the areas that are calling you. What is the meaning of the life you have lived? What gifts and talents have you shared and what contributions have you made? What is still "yours" to do in the time you have left? What legacies would you like to leave? How do you want to die? From the perspective of your soul, death is a passage to another state of consciousness and by continuing to nurture that connection can open you to the timeless and formless beyond the body.

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LOGISTICS

• All sessions are 45 minutes in length and take place by telephone or face to face, by arrangement. In addition, you may have unlimited access to me via e-mail.
  
• To begin work, a 3 month commitment is required. Work is done in 3 sessions a month at $299.00 per month, payable by credit card or check. The initial startup session is an hour and 45 minutes at a cost of $149.
  
• Call or e-mail to set up an appointment for a free 30 minute introductory session and to determine whether our working together is appropriate.