Life Coaching From A Spiritual Perspective

We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.

~ Richard Rohr

SPIRITUAL LIFE COACH

 

Dark emotions are a part of life.  Whether fear, loss, death, betrayal, grief, or more, most of us have encountered dark emotions in our lives.  While these emotions in themselves are not harmful or threatening, what is threatening is the way we have been taught to fear and dread these normal emotions “as if” they will harm us if we let them in or acknowledge them.

In part, we shut down in the face of these dark emotions because we do not know what is on the other side of them.  Fearing the unknown, we resist acknowledging these feelings, emotionally disconnecting from the very sense of ourselves that we need the most.  what those very feelings are trying to tell us about who we are.

Meaning, that those feelings are trying to tell us about who we are.  The feelings hidden in those dark emotions are feelings that we really want and need to know about to better understand who we are, always with God by our side.

In disconnecting from our feelings, we may feel isolated and alone, abandoned, maybe even embarrassed for what we are going through.  When we are most vulnerable, we may find it hard to trust God’s love and guidance.  We freeze, forgetting that ours is a God of love and that God is right inside of us.

The only way to journey through vulnerability is through it.  Yet, it is not a journey that you must take alone.  You may find it helpful to have a supportive guide who understands the fear and disconnection that may have shut you down from the very sense of life within you.  A Spiritual Life Coach can be this supportive guide for you.

Spiritual Life Coaching is a process and a presence that accompanies you on a journey of openness to feelings of anger, fear, loss, dread, or disconnection.

Whether you anticipated this dark side of life or you never anticipated it happening, the purpose of spiritual life coaching is to help you grow beyond your current limits in a way that helps you to find more – more of who you are, more of how God is guiding you, and more of who you were born to become

You see, beyond the fear engendered by the unfamiliar emotions that you are struggling through, there is God’s grace, wisdom, and life-giving energy that will lead you to your healing.  Rather than remaining frozen in place, Spiritual Life Coaching can support and encourage you on your journey to reconnect with God at new levels.

Spiritual coaching supports you in stepping closer to the person God created you to be.  What you do with crises and painful events in your life is key to helping you transform yourself and your life into making our world more peaceful and loving.

It is our attitude toward painful events that makes or breaks us. 

Spiritual Life Coaching helps you to mindfully decide how you will navigate your next steps.  Spiritual coaching helps you to embrace what feels on so many levels like an ending, to find more beyond that ending.  Spiritual coaching helps you to find more within yourself that is new and more, filled with God’s love and mercy.

Not for a second is the fear, pain, anger, and despair of your loss diminished.  Rather, through spiritual coaching you begin to see and experience that which you lost, transformed into new and expansive.

What you lost becomes a bridge to finding more.

A wall of endings suddenly becomes a gate toward new beginnings.

You begin to see the many ways that all that you cherished and lost is opening a gate toward new beginnings. 

It is not a matter of letting go of what you lost.  Rather, it is a matter of integrating what you lost into new beginnings that you have yet to become.

Spiritual coaching helps you trust the process of new beginnings in your life, to learn who you are beyond the limits of what felt – and may still feel – like a wall of endings.

New beginnings are decisive moments in our ives where we give ourselves permission to re-learn life and re-learn ourselves beyond the endings of loss.  Through mindful openness and a willingness to learn from grace and wisdom inherent in our loss, we give ourselves permission to become free and to lives meaningful lives going forward.

God is Love.

In humbly accepting God’s love for us, God guides us in wisdom and understanding to transform ourselves into more than we ever may have become without our loss and ending.

If this sounds like a journey that you would like to explore further, I would be happy to work with you as your Spiritual Life Coach.

Contact me if you would like my support and encouragement on your journey!

 

We are not here only to transform the world but to be transformed.

~ Parker Palmer