Be Authentic, be Awake, be Alive

You are unique..  You  hear the sound of a different drummer but have some reticence in following it—maybe even shame.

You are fed up with conventional wisdom. Mainstream consciousness is too constrictive.  Even the alternative options feel inauthentic and limiting.

You yearn for change and realize that you must become the change you most want to see in the world.

Surrounded by a culture of fear, you wonder how to proceed.  After all, you really want to connect–you want to belong.

Old-school religion no longer speaks to your deepest concerns.  New age hype feels empty and doesn’t lead to true transformation.  Therapy has been beneficial but you sense that there is something more.  You’ve been to countless seminars, retreats, and read dozens of self-help books but something is still missing.  Occasionally you get clear glimpses of that which is far grander than what you experience in your day-to-day life.  You’ve had peak experiences that create startling hope in you, but find it difficult to bring that hope to the valleys of your ordinary days.  You want to follow the unique rhythms of your own life and effect positive change in the world but something is holding you back.

Through life coaching, I help you become authentic, awake, and alive.  Through life coaching, I support you to step out of mainstream constraints and into a wider place of being where you will experience happiness, peace, and power.

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Perhaps:

• You feel hindered by shame because you feel different from those around you.  You want to connect–you want to belong.
• You are waking up to the narrowness of conventionality but can’t find the support to walk away from the mainstream, perhaps fearing rejection.
• You are just beginning to feel out of place in your present culture and want to feel more grounded in who you really are.
• You are in the closet and want to come out.  Alternatively,  you’ve long been out but walk in the world with shame and reservation or aggression and anger.  These ways of coping are no longer serving you.
• Your relationships with a spouse, partner, or friend is threatened because you are beginning to see beyond the limitations of what this culture has to offer, but they are still firmly planted there.
• You have had a crisis of faith that leaves you feeling groundless, but you know you can’t go back to the dogma of the religious institutions  and you are not drawn to new-age hype.  You don’t know where to turn.
• You have been living an alternate lifestyle but you realize that even there you are not living authentically or as fully as you desire.  And those in that lifestyle want you to be a certain way.
• The stress and anxiety you feel as you transition from conventional to post-conventional are interfering with your productivity, effectiveness, and all around sense of well-being.
• You have experienced a major transition such as a marriage, promotion, divorce, separation, loss of job or loved one that leaves you questioning the conventional ideas for navigating those transitions.
• The threat of world crisis—economic meltdown, climate change, political upheaval, resource scarcity–is causing deep despair and hopelessness in you even as you reach out for alternative answers.
• You are having a crisis of creativity, not able to contribute to the world in a way that is meaningful, exciting, and powerful to your unique self.
• You know you are unique, and you want to become authentic, awake, and alive in that uniqueness.  You want to expand in consciousness, care, and compassion.  You are ready to step into your power and effect positive change in the world.

You’ve come to the right place. Life coaching can help. I can help.

I know how hard it is to want to fit in and belong.  I know the deep fear and shame of feeling different.  I have felt the intense longing to be different and be OK.  I’ve struggled desperately against my feelings of being different and I’ve finally come to a place of relaxing into my uniqueness, even seeing the power of what I have to offer the world.  In fact, I have found immense joy in living from my unique self which led me into life coaching to share what I’ve learned.

As a psychotherapist who now does life coaching, I have spent decades working with clients who have felt different.  And I’ve had to learn how to navigate my own uniqueness.  I have gained many valuable insights, tools and skills through these experiences.  It has taken many years and much struggle and messiness to find my way into a place of expansive freedom.  I’d like to share with you what I’ve learned and support you to find your way to freedom with less struggle and greater ease.

You want more than struggle and survival–even more than simply feeling better: You want to thrive and contribute with your own unique gifts–and you aren’t willing to settle for anything less.

Life coaching with me supports you to make a heroic commitment to your unique self and to life.  Through life coaching, I will teach you the straight-forward ideas, time tested practical tools and simple skills by which you can embrace your uniqueness–becoming authentic, awake, and alive.

Click here to apply for a complimentary Life Coaching Discovery Session.

Through life coaching you will learn the art of creating profound changes by means of small but strategic actions and decisions, turning your uniqueness into a catalyst for you to discover:

• A renewed passion for life.
• Healed relationships with loved ones.
• How to embrace your uniqueness and allow it to inform and empower your life.
• Melting shame and often pounds with it.
• Increased confidence and clarity.
• Much greater compassion—even for difficult people.
• Less anxiety and more groundedness and serenity.
• Diminishing fear about money.
• How to respond beyond mainstream rather than react or hide in fear.
• Improvement in physical health and strength.
• Increased creativity and inspiration.
• Courage to move through difficult times despite fear and without shame, leading to a sense of empowerment.
• Deeper meaning and expanding consciousness.
• Alternative ideas for complex problems.
• Confidence to walk and relish in the unique rhythms of your life.
• How to give your unique gifts to the world.

If you are interested in learning more about how life coaching can help you catalyze your uniqueness to create profound transformation then click here to apply for a complimentary life coaching Discovery Session.

Life coaching is not therapy or counseling; rather, life coaching is a collaboration focused on closing the gap between your current situation and where you most want to be as a unique and spiritual human being.  I will support your to live from a deeper, wider consciousness that will transform your life in practical and tangible ways.

WHY YOU’LL WANT TO ENTER INTO LIFE COACHING WITH ME

You’ll want to enter into life coaching with me because I have the professional and the personal experience needed to come alongside you in your endeavors.  I have a master’s degree in counseling from the University of South Carolina, and I was a psychotherapist for 20 years before becoming a life coach.  I am informed by integral theory, evolutionary spirituality, developmental psychology, shadow work, psychomotor therapy, family systems, cognitive therapy, mindfulness and vipassana meditation, Christianity, Buddhism, mysticism, and others.

More importantly, I’ve been there. I’ve been to the depths and back again.  I have struggled with deep shame, fear, and despair.  I’ve gained many valuable insights, as well as simple, practical tools, that I’d like to share with you.  I know what it’s like to live with shame, depression, anxiety, loss, physical pain, meaninglessness, addiction, financial ruin, sexual confusion, boredom, and inertia for decades and finally find a way through to an authentic, integral, inspired, and fulfilling life.

You will love life coaching with me because I am human, compassionate, and insightful.  I will come alongside you with wisdom, intuition, encouragement, challenge, kindness, patience, acceptance, and practical tools, skills, and ideas that lead to lasting change.  I will see you. I will witness the unique life within you and support you to step into a wider place of being.

Through the life coaching process, we will journey together for awhile and your life will change—rather, you will open to your authentic, powerful, and unique self.  You will expand your awareness and enrich your experience by coming more fully into the present, and by responding to the creative surge of life.  From this place, you will live life with more integrity, creativity, responsibility, and well-being.  You will discover the sacred in all of life.  You will be authentic, awake, and alive.

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CONTACT ME

If you are interested in learning more about  life coaching sessions, I’d like to invite you to apply for a complimentary life coaching discovery session where we discuss your current situation, goals, and what I have to offer.  Click here now to apply!

Warmest Regards,

Carla Royal, M.Ed.
Life Coach

Life Coaching with Carla