Why I Do This Work
It’s not easy being human. We’re all thrown into life without a user manual. There’s no guidebook on how to do human life and we’re all adrift in an uncertain, confusing, competitive and often hostile world. Everyone faces struggles and challenges, loss and pain. Whatever material circumstances we’re born into, and however successful or accomplished we become, each of us is ultimately alone and trying to navigate our way through life as best we can.
Transformational coaching helps you to navigate life more effectively. Photo by Valentin Antonucci.
Through my work I help people to navigate life more effectively. I enable them to be at ease with themselves and with life. My work is a remedy for the absence of a user manual on how to successfully function in the world that we find ourselves in today.
Even as a young boy I had an awareness of how difficult, confusing and painful life can be, for myself and others. I found it strange and puzzling the way humans operated and treated one another, and I always thought that there must be another way beyond the everyday material world in which everyone, from individuals to nations, strives to win for themselves at the expense of others.
It took me four decades of wrong turns and blind alleys – messing up my life, ignoring the wake-up calls, feeling sorry for myself and hard-done-to by life, being depressed and using substances to numb the pain of living – to realise that life (or at least how I experienced it) doesn’t have to be as torturous and difficult as it had seemed to me.
Most of the pain and trouble that we go through is self-generated (unconsciously and automatically) and there are ways to awaken from this and stop doing it to ourselves. We’ll always encounter challenges and difficulties in life but it’s how we respond to life that determines whether we suffer or not. When doing transformational work, problems still occur but they’re no longer problematic. There’s an ease of being and an effortlessness in the way we live life, whatever life presents for us. We don’t get stopped by problems and we keep expanding our self to embrace everything that’s part of ‘what is’.
I want to help alleviate the suffering in the human condition, to help people discover that there’s a way out to freedom and self-mastery. I want people’s lives to work better and I want to contribute to a world that works for everyone.
You’re already whole, complete and perfect, it’s just that you currently have some barriers or veils to experiencing that. I help you to remove those so that you can know yourself for the amazing, magnificent being that you really are and have genuine acceptance, love and compassion for yourself and others.
Doing this work is me ‘following my bliss’, to use Joseph Campbell’s phrase. It’s the thing I can’t not do. If I didn’t have to earn a living I’d still happily get up each day and do this work for the sheer joy of helping others out of the struggles in their lives.
Working so intimately with people in my transformational coaching practice is such a profound and humbling experience. It’s an honour and a privilege to share part of someone’s journey through life and to witness their breakthroughs and liberation from the things that have burdened them for many years. Their transformation is also my transformation, as the two are inextricably linked and they feed into each other in a virtuous circle.
I’m committed to making a difference in the world through how I live my life, through continually working on my own personal transformation and through helping others in my transformational coaching work.
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