All suffering is bearable if it is seen as part of a story
~Isak Dinesen
My name is Ruth Kalter. My personal experiences and my experience as a Bereavement Counselor have taught me that the most difficult times of great upheaval and suffering in our lives also offer extraordinary opportunities for growth. It is our glory and our dignity as human beings that we possess the ultimate choice about how we respond to what life brings us.
What we are given is our fate;
what we do with it is our destiny
~Carl Jung
In our responses to life we find our imagination and creative capacity. Many of us need help uncovering these resources in ourselves, which we may have lost touch with along the way.
I’ll support, guide and encourage you to identify your strengths, harness them, and use them to their fullest capacity so you can recreate your life with renewed purpose and direction.
I offer deep intuitive listening and effective methods for discovering what matters most to you and making the changes you choose, so that you can live a meaningful life that is true to your most important values.
As your coach, I bring my extensive
education and experience in clinical psychology to coaching you. I know
how to help you understand what you are going through, get un-stuck,
and free up your energy for creating the most fulfilling life you can
imagine.
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Here are some results my clients have experienced, and that you can experience as well:
• They found meaning in their most challenging experiences and the energy to move forward with a new sense of hope in life
• They found a vision for their lives that they feel good about
• They discovered a new, crystallized clarity about their values and goals
• They’ve released worries, fears and guilt and as a result now have room in their minds for long-dormant creativity
• They’ve learned new methods for turning self-critical thoughts into self-affirming thoughts
• They’ve embraced a new-found courage to make major decisions that turn their lives in a positive direction
• They created ways of giving benefit to others from their own life experience
Whether it’s short-term problem solving and support you need, or creation of a long-term vision for your life, I can help you discover what you really want, help you get out of your own way, and show you how to tap into your inner strength so you can take charge of your life, and be true to yourself.
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This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-hearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more and more of one's potentialities. It involves the courage to be. It means launching oneself fully into the stream of life.
~Carl Rogers
Coaching is partly about setting goals – long term and short term – and achieving them by creating step-by-step action plans. But it is more than that.
My clients are interested in coaching that is about creating a satisfying and meaningful life attuned to their core values. This involves all dimensions – spiritual, emotional, mental and physical.
Everything in your life can be included in coaching. My clients are welcome to bring their struggles and disappointments, even failures, as well as achievements and successes, to our coaching relationship. All of it contributes to understanding how you can get where you really want to go.
It is possible to achieve all our goals and still feel empty inside because the goals we've set for ourselves haven't come out of a deeply meaningful place within us.
The kind of coaching I offer attends to the deeper soul levels of what we long for, and doesn't deny the darker and more difficult aspects of life, including the many ways we suffer as human beings. In this way we are being true to life, not living at the surface, but living from the depths to the surface with what Carl Rogers calls “Congruence.” We are more open to experience, more creative, and able to trust our own judgment and choices.
If you are ready to set forth on a journey of exploration that will lead to a more meaningful and satisfying life, please contact me. It would be an honor to walk beside you and coach you through this phase of your life.
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