Background
My credentials aren’t the formal kind…
I completed a self-paced personal development course when I was about 10 years old, and later went on to devour several books on the subject, including “The Road Less Traveled”, by M. Scott Peck.
As I matured out of adolescence and pursued a variety of interests, I continually took notes on anything I came across that helped me better understand myself and flesh out a comprehensive worldview.
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By my mid-twenties, I began to compile all that I’d learned into a book, with the hopes that it might ease someone else’s journey.
After exploring a wide variety of professional exploits (including Travel Agent, Dog Trainer, and aspiring Hosteller), I made my way to a coaching course (created by an ICF certified coach), and embarked upon my Path of Purpose.
Studies
In the following few years, I consumed several Mindvalley courses and webinars, completed Bob Proctor’s 24-week course, “Thinking Into Results”, studied Nonviolent Communication, practiced Authentic Relating and Circling, did an intensive Authentic Leadership and Facilitation Training, read countless articles and inspiring posts, as well as numerous books, and apprenticed with energetic masters.
Some of the most influential books I’ve read include Ken Wilbur’s “Integral Life Practice”, Eckhart Tolle’s “The Power of Now” and “A New Earth”, Charles Eisenstein’s “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible”, Pema Chodron’s “When Things Fall Apart”, and Michael A. Singer’s “The Untethered Soul”.
Through it all, my own personal development has perpetually evolved and become brilliantly refined. I have worked with a number of guides and a variety of modalities, made all of them my own, incorporated what fit for me, discarded what didn’t, learned to hear my own inner guidance, and released the drive to “fix” myself and others. What I have now, I call my Peaceful Power Practice.
Contribution
Along my journey, I’ve discovered that I find the purest joy in connecting with other humans, and that I’m a naturally gifted teacher. I have a deep appreciation for the human experience, and I have found nothing more fulfilling than guiding others to the light within themselves – as I’ve done for dozens of individuals, and sparked in hundreds more.
I believe that the best guides are those who 1) are headed where we’re headed, but not yet already there; 2) started where we started, not from a different position; and 3) are only a few steps ahead of us, so we can still see their light and they still remember the steps they took and the difficulties that we will be facing.
One result of this perspective (particularly point #2) is that I do not consider myself fit to coach men or nonbinary folx. I see their journeys as distinct from those of women, and while I have deep respect for their paths, my frame of reference is naturally limited.
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