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the why, the what and the how
A different approach to Coaching
By Mirjam van Ruth | Soul-based Coaching | Microdosing | Conscious Living | Conscious Aging My mind is super flexible, it can reason itself out of almost every situation, explore different sides with ease, come up with solutions, find new problems ;). A mind like that...
Truth in Coaching
There is little objective truth in the world There is little objective truth, except in things like: a living wage needing to be more than minimum wage is, the fact that people like Jeff Bezos hoard more resources than they need to over the backs of others...
In the fire needing to find the way out
We all have periods in our lives that are very hard. When we wonder if we will even get to the other side. Faced with a new truth that pulls the rug from under us. When part of us is dying because we face big loss. Or when we need to shed essential ideas of who we...
Cognitive Bypassing is fantastic ..
Cognitive bypassing is fantastic.. It is the act of thinking and analysing (including wondering and doubting) and finding the reasoning for how what we are going through makes perfect sense, what we should be doing, what is hard about that, why it hasn't happened yet...
My mum is a Modern Mystic – and you?
Most modern mystics spend a lot of time figuring out their relationship to ‘that which is within us all and yet is bigger than any of us’. It often takes a while before we dare to talk about it as the Divine - whatever that label means to us. Because on the surface of...
Where my Inner Priestess and me as a professional coach meet
Friday, noon. I settle in for my coaching call. My client comes in sharing she is navigating 'rough seas'. We light a candle and presence ourselves. And what happens next is nothing short of miraculous. Through waves of unfolding, we follow the trail of her embodied...
The anatomy of a Desired Outcome
There is more to how our clients tell us what they want: let's look at the anatomy of the Desired Outcome. Maybe you've noticed how sometimes clients start a session by saying: 'I want to get confident' while other times, it's more like: 'I want to start to feel into...
Soul is a big claim
For the remnants of my old corporate mind, working with 'Soul' is a big claim, something that won't be taken seriously. For my priestess self, working with soul it is exactly what needs to happen. To this part of me, anything else is pointless. I can't tell you how...
How can we tell that we listen well?
[NEW podcast episode Soul-based Coaching Whispers: The Four levels of Listening] We all agree that listening is one of the most important skills as a coach. So here is an interesting question: how can you tell you listen well? Part of honing and...