Frequently Asked Questions
Who needs a guide?
Everyone, at one time or another. Patterns are deep, we need a non-judgmental space to explore which patterns are serving and which are not. To have a mirror held up to us so that we see more clearly where working toward change would be most beneficial. We need inspiration and support to courageously try new ways of being in our lives.
This doesn’t have to seem life-shattering. It can simply be a desire for things to be better than they are now. A desire for more joy, contentment, peace, and clarity.
Why do I need a guide?
Because we simply can’t always spot a lie that we believe to be true. What do I mean by that? We all have internalized beliefs that deeply limit our journey that we don’t even realize we have absorbed at the deepest level (i.e. I am too old for that, it’s too late now, I am not creative enough, mothers have to prioritize their children in every moment, men are providers first, I have too many years invested in this career/location/ relationship so I can’t change it).
What do we do in sessions?
It’s different every time. We are playing in the space of making things better. Getting out of incessant thinking and into the body for an experience of truth, tapping into a guidance system with so much more clarity than our jumble of thoughts. We have experiences in a coaching session. We use meditative tools, metaphor tools, thought dissolving tools, and communication tools to shake things up, to find new approaches, to get you outside your usual grooves. We will get into the body and we will challenge thoughts that cause suffering. We’ll create small action steps to follow week by week.
What can I hope to achieve?
Ah, here’s the magnificence, all the answers are inside you. All of them. It is all an inside job. This means when you spot the root of the limitations and begin listening to the body’s wisdom and taking action, things begin to fall in line. Sometimes a client reports that they are afraid of the pain of seeing the reality of things, the pain of doing the work toward change. I remind them, there is pain in both directions. To stay as you are now, it may be a more recognizable pain, but the pain of feeling stuck, trapped, or out of alignment is most certainly pain and it doesn’t get better from sitting in it and waiting. Taking new action, looking limiting beliefs square on, speaking truth to those around you in ways you have not before, seeing where you’ve gotten off track, that is pain too, but it is pain that takes you through and out to a new place, a place of integrity and clarity, a place that feels like an expansive deep breath. A place that fits. It’s like unraveling a thread, all of a sudden, things break free. As the Buddha said, enlightenment tastes of freedom - not comfort or ease, but freedom. Delicious freedom.