Coaching is a true partnership. It is a dance of equals where the coach comes to the dance floor with specific choreography that unleashes often mind-blowing insights that empowers the client to dance in ways never thought possible. This is what makes coaching, in my opinion, a far superior modality to counseling or therapy when one yearns to grow and thrive.

The result of Western society's common survival programming is profound. At the individual and collective level, our conscious and unconscious reverberates "anything external to me that can be validated by someone else has value for my survival." This programming creates fissures in our ability to perfect our wholeness. In the game of life, wholeness is our psychospiritual wholeness. Psychospiritual wholeness is not just the skills we need for survival, but the skills we need for thriving and flourishing in a life that has meaning and purpose; the skills needed to create a life that feels magical.

It's a very rare athlete who can coach themself to achieve beyond their comfort zone. It's a rare human being who can coach themself to new ways of being that are not only beyond their comfort zone, but sometimes not even within their programmed belief system or accepted by their peer group or family unit.

…professional coaches do not use forced accountability or toxic positivity to push clients to their limits.