Spirituality

I bring three components to my work with clients ~ counseling, coaching and spirituality. All three are such integral pieces to who I am that even though a client engages me to work with her (or him) in one main area, the other two components are usually present to some degree.

When I speak of spirituality, I am not referring to religion. Although I attend a church, I am not classically religious. I use the word Spirit interchangeably with God or Life. It is all around us and within us, as the fabric of our Being and the Universe, whether we believe it or not. We can’t not be a part of Life. We’re alive! Life is moving through us. It is integral to and inseparable from who we are.

I also believe that Love is the essential nature of Life and therefore, love is your essential nature as well. In my mind, you are always a blessing and so are the others in your life, regardless of how it may appear. I hear so many people say that they believe in evil. I absolutely do not. Here’s what I think. The word “evil” is the word “live” spelled backward. To me that means that we get life backwards sometimes; we get far off the mark. If we pinch ourselves off from our life force long enough disaster can result. But the truth of our Being, at our core, is always Life’s Benevolence, and it is always streaming to us and through us. And we can always turn around and greet it, no matter how far away from it we seem.

I also believe that we are the projector of our lives, so what seems to be happening in our lives is a result of the mental images and vibrations or energy currents that we are projecting, the way we are directing the life force, so to speak. Once we understand this, there’s a lot of power in it. We can realize that we’re not the victim of any circumstance and we can learn how to project or direct our lives more to our liking.

This is not to say that others aren’t affecting our lives with their projections. But with awareness, we can have much more influence over how things are going for us than anyone or anything else does. We can consciously choose what we want to project, regardless of how things appear. Appearances are old news, energetically. By the time something shows up or appears in our lives, the thoughts that projected it are over. Our problem is that once we see what has shown up, we think about it again, project it again, think it again, project it again. Over time that becomes our reality.

For some of you, this may sound weird and way out there. For others of you, it makes perfect sense. That’s why people choose which facet of my experience they want to engage with most ~ counseling, coaching or spirituality. But I wanted you to know my beliefs because they form a backdrop of how I work with you.

In a nutshell, my spirituality helps you because I believe that all is not lost, anything can turn around, at your core you are made of the stuff of God, you can’t separate from that even if you tried, and God is not a deity, some dude on a cloud. God is the ground of Consciousness from which all of Life springs, including you. You are a blessing and when you know you are a blessing, you live your best life.