Why go alone?

Be seen. Be heard. Go forth.

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There is a common narrative now that we, as individuals, alone have all the resources and capacity to elicit our own healing, happiness, and well-being. With the right amount of research and discipline in how we eat, move, rest, think, speak, and act, we can be our best selves and live our best lives.

So, why are we not all living our best lives? Although ritualized personal practices can be powerful, sometimes the journey needs a guide.

During my sophomore year of college, I fell in love with my best friend at the time. It was my first same-sex relationship and after it ended I found myself in a firestorm of confusion, self-doubt, incapacitating anxiety, and depression. Fortunately, I had access to the ingredients for my own healing - deeply caring family and friends, therapy, and movement.

Without these pillars of support, my trajectory would not have been the same. At the most vulnerable and pivotal times in my life, I have had an attentive, trustworthy, and skilled person or community there to support me. Still today, when my perspective is limited, fear too strong, obstacles too big, and goals too distant, I turn to those who unconditionally believe in me. Through these experiences, I’ve found myself feeling the most empowered and connected when I am seen, heard, and supported. The recurring felt experience is what inspires me to connect and build capacity in others through deeply intentional, creatively collaborative, and positively challenging coaching.

If you are driven to be somewhere else, you don’t have to go alone. As your coach, we take the journey together.

Blake is a calming force for good. When I volunteered for coaching, I had no idea that he would bring such a calm and trusting space for me to sort out my thoughts, desires and patterns in behavior. My time with him has been a true gift, one that I think all should give themselves.

— Ann R., LCSW, Colorado