November 2001
When Inner-Peace Eludes You: Spiritual Aspect of Coaching by Linda Lacy-Shearer, LMFT

Do you want to pursue your spiritual goals and growth but find that you:

- Just can’t make the time for meditation, chanting, prayer, yoga, tai chi, etc.

-Feel resistance or anxiety when beginning your spiritual practice,

-Attend lectures and read books, but just can’t find your own spiritual connection,

-Feel confused, lost, scattered, or overwhelmed in your spiritual life

-Have an underlying feeling of being disconnected from yourself, the sacred, and the world around you

-Can’t slow down your life style & release inner tension.

Most spiritual practice requires a calm and centered mind, a willingness to know yourself, an openness to spirit, and a sense of connection with the sacred.

Coaching is often associated with:

-Assistance in formulating achievable goals,

-Creating time lines,

-making career transitions,

-Assessing strength & over coming weaknesses,

-And understanding attitudes & beliefs.

The increasing number of coaches in our society illustrates the need for help in these areas. A motivational coach can become your partner in successful life transitions and goal achievement.

Coaching skills can also be very effective in your spiritual life as well as your career, relationships or sports. It is difficult and often unrealistic to separate the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of your life.

Spiritual issues where a Life Coach can support and empower you include:

-Clarifying your goals for a spiritual path

-Creating a spiritual practice, uniquely yours

-Identifying & transforming attitudes & beliefs that inhibit your growth

-Integrating your spiritual awareness into your career & relationships

-Confronting feelings of fear, guilt or confusion that arise in the transitions of a spiritual life

-Developing a centered sense of your connection to nature and all of life

-Creating a balanced life style & living your spirituality daily

-Increasing your intuitive abilities

-Discovering relaxation and stress reduction methods to enhance your personal peace.

-Weaving through the myriad of spiritual disciplines, advisers, and doctrines to the creation of your own sense of the sacred self.

In assisting individuals with their spiritual direction, beliefs about their relationship with their creator, and releasing dysfunctional attitudes from childhood, I have found that spiritual beliefs color all areas of your life–career, relationships, prosperity, and health. Your relationship with the divine affects all your worldly relationships. This includes your

A combination of spiritual coaching and professional therapy can offer you the tools to reach your spiritual goals. Take the first step toward realizing the person you know you can be. Your time is now. Begin your journey with a skilled professional.

Good luck with your spiritual growth.

Linda Lacy Shearer is a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, Life Coach and Intuitive. She has assisted individuals and couples with their spiritual growth for over 15 years. She also specializes in relationship healing, women’s issues, life transitions and flower essence therapy. For consultations in person or by telephone, call 909 849 7023