About Jim
I spend most of my days in my living-work space with my two lizards and an old elm. I wake early, enjoy reading, writing, good coffee and the fresh morning air.
I consider myself a modern-day-Shaman. My way of life and thinking is intregal in my work with clients. We visit higher selves, future selves… connect with their spirit, their life force and their soul.
Many mornings I’m on the phone coaching at 6am and enjoy doing so throughout the mornings and many afternoons. We start our coaching sessions with the most important of questions: “What do you want from this coaching session?” and proceed to make that happen!
Most coaching sessions include various forms of guided imagery, trance and visualizations… and of course, homework. Improvement and change happens in your life…that’s where you practice what you learn in coaching.
My daily activities include focused meditation, nutritious delicious food (sometimes just plain bad food too, in moderation!), sometimes moderate exercise, some cool crime show or movie, reading, writing and interacting with friends and those I love.
I’m married to a wonderful woman and we live happily, separately. Our lives have woven together in such beautiful ways. We live our work and grow our love even more. We chat daily, spend times together every week, learn, love, grow and share.
Karma (l) & Ripples (R)
We share two beautiful dogs that live with her: Ripples our 10y/0 Portuguese Water Dog and Karma our 2 y/o Australian Shepard.
Why “Truly Human” Coaching?
I believe we humans are physical beings on a soul journey… our purpose is to continue to grow to be the divine beings we are. We have chosen our physical existence as a path to learn particular life lessons; and the either learn and move forward or simply continue to ‘circle’ the same lesson.
I call myself a modern-day-shaman… I do the work of a shaman, as described by Shiela Baker in her article: “How a Modern Shaman Retrieves Souls.”.
The work of a shaman today, as in the past, is to help connect the spiritual world with the mundane, to heal old wounds within, to find balance and harmony and to bring dreams from the world of spirit into our lives. By making these connections, we enjoy a creative and fruitful life, dance the dance of joy and become part of the solution of harmoniously living on Earth.
We have developed our social structures in service of their own continuity with emphasis on things like: logic, action, getting ahead, scarcity and conformity. The value laden theme of belonging and fitting in leads most people on the merry-g0-round of consumerism; losing their sense of self, ignoring or self-loathing their bodies and sacrificing their emotional and spiritual life for the sake of “making a living” and “getting ahead”.
As children we are cajoled and socialized into believing that certain emotions are good and bad; or at the very least must be kept to ourselves. We are taught about some version of God or spirit; many offered notions of spiritual life that were and are tied to a dogmatic religion with a God that punishes.
Why would God want to punish? That just doesn’t make sense. Loving God’s Love… punishing is not love… teaching is love… Yeah, it’s a big deal for me.
So Truly Human Coaching arose from the passion and compassion I feel for all of us, particularly the children. I dream that every child in the world feels loved, wanted and safe every single day. That would mean that all of us adults would be acting in ways that model this loving, this compassion, this integrity and responsibility for our impact.
I have great compassion for the loss of spirit and soul connection, the denial of emotions, the denial of self that our society, culture and very existence demands. I live to awaken your soul and spirit, to help you come alive and love this glorious life… and love glorious you…
Our very “Human-ness” depends on our connection with ourselves; every relationship we have is a reflection of the one we have with ourselves… I’ve made it my mission to help people connect with what is Truly Human in them; to love often, and to live their great life in joy, with full intention, expression and participation!
More about Jim:
Like my question above: “Why would God want to punish?”… I asked those kinds of questions my entire life. The adults in my life told me “You’re too young to understand” or ’just because…”. Adults often had some line of reasoning that just did not make sense! So, couple that with a flaring oppositional disorder and well…. those adults really didn’t know.
AND, I still ask questions that simply make sense…
Are you the man or woman you want to be?
What is your life lessons or soul journey?
Do you have peace in your heart?
Do you have great love in your life?
What are my soul journey and life lessons? Happy to share, you’ve come this far!
I am an Enneagram Type 2 – The Helper Other “Type Two’s” are: Mother Theresa, Desmond Tutu, Eleanor Roosevelt and Bill Cosby. The information regarding Enneagram type is tremendous, I suggest it to all who wish clarity. My Life Lessons are related to: Love, Character, Spirituality, Emotion and I like to think Healing and Teaching. The latter was recently confirmed in my learnings through The Dear Tribe Merit Medicine Society (http://www.dtmms.org/) and more specifically through their references to SunBear’s Native American Astrology. (http://www.starspiderdancing.net/StarSpiderDancing/ripeberries.html)
A large part of our coaching together will have to do with finding your Soul’s journey and life lessons.
I have a passion for effective, for what works, I always have. From my early years as an undergraduate student searching for the absolute best education to help me to help others. I found it at George Williams College: a combination direct social work/counseling psychology program. I loved it. It’s where I discovered some of the most effective theraputic models I still use today. These early learnings include: Humanistic Psychotherapy (vis-a-vis Carl Rogers); Gestalt, NeuroLinguistic Programming (NLP™), Family Therapy & Provacative Therapy. During those early years I also completed seperate certification programs in Hypnosis and Systemic Family Therapy. I was simply having fun, learning and applying all my learning as a high level Addictions Counselor and Family Therapist during the 1980′s.
*Ever here someone say: “Damn, here I am again!!” You may have said it yourself. That’s because you’re right back where you need to be to learn the lesson/s you are here to learn.
In 2003 I published my first book: Getting What You Want – The Art of Living on Purpose Click on it, download it for free! It’s simple, short, fun, easy to read and all about how You can create Your Great Life! It starts with our thinking, our attitude and making choices.. then there’s simple exercises for you to Get Into Action and get what you want.
And if your still not getting what you want after the book, please do write (Jim@TrulyHumanCoaching.com) or call (847-748-8006), I can help and I want to help you.
