Life pulls us in a thousand directions. Some seasons are full of new beginnings, while others leave us navigating endings we never asked for. Holistic life coaching is about finding your footing in all of it. Whether you’re stepping into a new role, untangling old patterns, or learning how to live on the other side of loss.
I bring together decades of spiritual study, coaching experience, and ritual practice to help people reconnect with what makes us fully human. My background is rooted in the Christian tradition, but my personal faith practice is radically ecumenical and I am open to working with people of all faiths and non-faiths. Whoever you are, whatever you carry, you belong here.
Where We Begin
Holistic life coaching creates space for:
- Sorting through transitions and discovering who you are becoming.
- Releasing habits and stories that no longer serve you.
- Re-imagining your life with more clarity, compassion, and courage.
- Giving grief, trauma, or burnout a sacred container to move through you, not define you.
This is work for the whole person: body, mind, and spirit.
Grief and the Work of Becoming Human
Grief is not just something to “get over.” It is a passage, a teacher, and at times, a companion. For many clients, grief is what first brings them to coaching. Together, we may create personal rituals of remembrance, explore new practices for emotional release, or re-story what life looks like now.
But grief isn’t the whole story. It can also be the doorway to living more awake, more compassionate, and more fully alive. That’s why I also founded We Can Stay Human, a movement of poetic theology, embodiment practices, and prophetic clarity for a dehumanizing world.
Tools for the Journey
Each coaching relationship is unique, but often includes:
- Conversation & Integration – honest reflection and practical next steps.
- Ritual & Symbol – marking transitions, honoring grief, and embodying change.
- Breathwork – a powerful practice that can help unlock emotions, calm the nervous system, and deepen connection to spirit.
- Storytelling – naming the truth of your life in ways that bring freedom and healing.
Work With Me
Whether you’re moving through loss, transition, or simply longing to live more fully, holistic life coaching offers a space to remember your sacred humanity.
Learn more about me and my journey.
Schedule a free discovery session to explore how this work might serve you.
What Is Holistic Life Coaching?
So what exactly is it that we will do together? Let’s break it down.
What Is Coaching?
Coaching is a client-centered practice that believes you have the answers that will move you along life’s journey. Sometimes the challenge is that you don’t trust yourself to have the answers. At other times, it’s that you don’t know the right questions to ask.
As a coach, I will not come with solutions, but the awareness-evolving questions that help you listen to that voice within and discover what you need for the next step in your journey. With each step, you will gain more confidence in yourself and learn to trust that, once you know the question, you do have the answers.
Each week this will involve examining life as it is, envisioning life as you would like it to be, and identifying how you want to embody your ideal life. Typically, one week will build on the next and compound to help you fulfill a much larger goal that we will set at the beginning of our time together.
What Makes Holistic Life Coaching Different?
While a lot of coaching focuses on externals, a holistic approach to life coaching focuses on you … all of you. That means we look at your heart, body, mind, and soul. I have come to learn that as we transform our inner world, our external experience changes as well.
As a bonus, this means that, in time, you will find yourself less and less impacted by uncontrollable circumstances and more empowered to live well no matter what happens around you.
Ready to find out more? Schedule a complementary discovery call today.
Duration and Format
I offer currently offer two coaching packages:
- 5 50-minute sessions that can be scheduled weekly, every other week, or monthly
- 1 90-minute session that incorporates breathwork
Either way, our first session will set the stage for the overarching goal of our time together. This might be to explore something specific that you are struggling with, be it mental, physical, emotional, or spiritual, or it might be to look at all four realms of your life.
Each session is 50 minutes and is loosely broken down into three phases:
- In the first, we will examine an aspect of your life you want to focus on.
- In the second, we will envision how you want things to be, whether it is something different or more of what you already have.
- Finally, we will put a tangible plan in place to help you embody life as you want it.
Sessions are almost always conducted on Zoom, although an in-person option is available for those who are in the Denver metro area.
Coaching vs. Therapy
It is important to note that coaching and therapy are not the same thing. Therapy looks at the past and focuses on addressing what happened to us. Coaching imagines the future and helps us figure out how to get there.
This doesn’t mean the coaching ignores what happened, but places greater importance on our response over the event itself. It also means that if there is an event from your life that is too painful to move past, I will encourage you to find a good therapist as either a compliment to coaching or something to do before we continue coaching.
That said, as someone who did therapy for years, I found that while therapy explained my present, it never helped me move into the future. Rather, I struggled to be more than a victim of circumstance. It was being part of a group of men who coached me that changed everything.
If you are ready to find out if holistic life coaching is for you, schedule a complimentary discovery call today.
Certification
I am certified through the Holistic Coach Training Institute.
Qualifications
While my certification says that I am trained in holistic life coaching, I believe qualifications highlight a different set of qualities that move beyond mere education. Here I believe there are two broad categories. One is my story and the other is what drives me.
My Story
While I go into far more detail on my about page, my life is very much a story of moving from coping to healing to thriving. That means there were many years where the story wasn’t pretty. From a childhood of people pleasing to a young adulthood where I lived two lives, a public one that projected one image and a private life that embodied another, my story is often ugly and hurt those who dared to get close to me.
Now if holistic life coaching was about knowing exactly what to do and how to do it, and if I claimed to be here to tell you how to live your life then I would not be very qualified as a coach. But that isn’t what holistic life coaching is all about.
The other part of my story is the long, slow, and often painful deep dive I took into my psyche. It is about the hard questions I asked myself and moving from a place of self-hatred to one of self-acceptance. Ultimately, this allowed me to move into a place of thriving.
All of that means that no matter where you find yourself, I’ve been there and can approach you without judgment. It also means that I am relentlessly redemptive and believe it’s never too late to find yourself or the life you’re longing for.
What Drives Me
The Motivation Code is a personality assessment designed to identify what drives your behavior. Here are my key results:
Notice how none of my results are really about me? Instead, what drives me is making a difference in the lives of the people around me. This is as true in my work life as it is in my family life as it is in my engagement with my broader community. It even shapes how I vote. So imagine having someone like that in your corner. Isn’t that the kind of holistic life coaching you are looking for? If so, it’s time to schedule a complimentary discovery call.
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