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Have you ever felt like you’re standing in the hallway of your own life — one door closing, another not yet open — and you don’t know which way to turn?That’s not failure or confusion. It’s the liminal zone — the space between identities, where the old is falling away and the new hasn’t yet […]

The Liminal Zone: How to Navigate Life Between Chapters

Oct 8, 2025

Transitions

Understanding the States of Consciousness A number of years ago while part of a Coaches Rising course, I came across talk by Jim Dethmer on the 4 states of consciousness. He offered a version of this profound age-old wisdom on how we see life and therefore how we experience it. We are constantly moving between […]

Life happens “for you” not “to you”

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Oct 13, 2024

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Therapeutic Coaching: Bridging Past, Present, and Future When I started coaching 10 years ago, it was taught as a process focused on the future. In contrast, therapy was seen as focusing on the past. But over time, I noticed the past frequently showed up in the present, affecting my clients’ future. Sometimes, this was an […]

Therapeutic Coaching – “Dispelling the separation of time in deep inner work”

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Sep 25, 2024

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