In a world obsessed with more – more information, more achievement, more growth – true transformation often comes through subtraction rather than addition. Drawing from 35 years of experience in personal development and wellness, I guide individuals through meaningful life changes by helping them create space for what truly matters.

Think of a sculptor approaching a block of marble. The statue doesn’t emerge through addition; it reveals itself as the artist carefully removes what doesn’t belong. Your path to growth and clarity follows a similar principle. The statue doesn’t emerge through addition; it reveals itself as the artist carefully removes what doesn’t belong. Your path to growth and clarity follows a similar principle.

Despite decades of traditional therapy and self-help programs, many people find themselves cycling through the same patterns, collecting insights without experiencing lasting change. Understanding alone rarely leads to transformation. Real, sustainable change requires more than periodic sessions or accumulated knowledge—it needs ongoing dialogue and engagement with someone who knows the territory.

MY COACHING FRAMEWORK

Six Essential Inner Skills, developed and refined through consistent practice and guidance:

1. ACCOUNTABILITY Taking full responsibility for your life by removing excuses and deflections. This foundational skill creates space for authentic choice and action.
2. SELF-INQUIRY Using deep questioning to clear away assumptions and reveal your true patterns. Like clearing layers of old paint, this process uncovers what’s genuinely present beneath our habitual thinking.
3. LETTING GO Learning to recognize and release what no longer serves you. Like clearing space in a cluttered room, this skill allows your natural wisdom and capabilities to emerge.
4. SELF-VALIDATION Moving from self-criticism to self-understanding by releasing judgments and comparisons. This skill helps you clear away external measures of worth to discover your authentic value.
5. BOUNDARIES Creating clear space between what is yours and what isn’t. This essential skill helps you maintain healthy relationships by understanding what to keep and what to let go.
6. CLEAN THINKING Clearing away mental clutter to access clearer, more constructive thought patterns. This skill helps you distinguish between useful thoughts and unnecessary mental noise.

THE PATH TO TRANSFORMATION

Success depends not on adding more tools or techniques, but on removing the barriers that prevent your natural wisdom from emerging. Like learning any new skill, from athletics to artistry, sustained growth happens through consistent practice with experienced guidance. As your facilitator and mentor, I provide not just insights but ongoing support as you navigate the challenges of genuine transformation.

While the billion-dollar self-help industry offers countless programs and promises, true transformation requires more than accumulating information—it requires clearing space for wisdom to emerge. My approach helps you identify what to remove rather than what to add, helping you navigate your unique path of growth more effectively through sustained dialogue and engagement.

WORKING TOGETHER

We use “The Obstacle is the Way” as our primary framework, transforming challenges into opportunities for clarity. Through ongoing mentorship, you’ll learn to:

• Identify and release limiting patterns in real-time
• Clear paths through obstacles rather than adding more tools
• Step beyond familiar comfort zones by releasing old safety patterns
• Transform stress responses by clearing reactive patterns

Through our sustained work together, you’ll develop:

• Greater emotional clarity through releasing unnecessary tension
• Improved stress management through letting go of control
• Healthier relationships through clearing old patterns
• Enhanced self-awareness through removing distractions
• Sustainable positive habits through clearing counterproductive behaviors

CUSTOMIZED ENGAGEMENT

Traditional weekly sessions rarely create lasting change. That’s why my approach offers continuous support and engagement tailored to your specific journey. While my forthcoming book “AN EDITED LIFE: The Art of Subtraction” (available June 2025) provides a theoretical framework, real transformation requires ongoing guidance and practice. As part of our work together, you’ll receive exclusive access to sections of the book integrated into your personalized coaching experience.

COMMITMENT TO CHANGE

Your path to transformation is unique. We’ll collaborate to develop an individualized plan that considers your specific circumstances, including:

• Current life situation and challenges
• Readiness for change
• Previous personal development work
• Short and long-term goals
• Available time and resources

COMPREHENSIVE SUPPORT INCLUDES:

• Regular phone calls, text chats, and email support
• Weekly 60–90-minute zoom sessions
• Private online portal through Google Drive for ongoing dialogue
• Customized exercises and practices
• Progress tracking and validation
• Access to original articles and book excerpts

THE PRIVATE PORTAL

• Journal entries and reflective dialogue
• Targeted inquiry questions
• Custom exercises and practices
• Progress tracking
• Curated readings and resources

ENGAGEMENT OPTIONS

Monthly Plan: Ideal for those with established healthy habits needing focused guidance and momentum.

3-6 Month Intensive: Recommended for addressing deeper patterns and creating sustainable change.

FORTHCOMING BOOK

AN EDITED LIFE: The Art of Subtraction

“What you’re looking for is what you are looking with”

In this unconventional guide to personal transformation, I challenge traditional approaches to growth and change. Rather than adding more solutions, techniques, or quick fixes, AN EDITED LIFE leads you on a journey of subtraction—the art of eliminating what blocks you from accessing your natural wisdom and capability.

Through exploring perennial wisdom, mindfulness, and the nature of perception, this book reveals how the answers you seek aren’t found in accumulating more knowledge or techniques. They emerge naturally when you clear away the layers of conditioning and unconscious beliefs that obscure them.

If you’re tired of collecting insights without experiencing lasting change, if you’re ready to move beyond the endless cycle of self-help promises and temporary solutions, this book offers a different path: one of revealing rather than acquiring, of clearing rather than adding, of being rather than doing.

This book will not save you. It will help you save yourself.

This book integrates seamlessly with my coaching approach, offering a theoretical framework for the practical work we do together. While the book provides valuable insights, remember that lasting transformation requires ongoing guidance and sustained practice—exactly what our coaching relationship provides.

My commitment is to help you discover what emerges when you create space for your authentic self to flourish, providing the consistent guidance needed for lasting transformation.

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