"Thank you so much for all the experiences yesterday at the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral. I had a number of 'insights' …I want to change to move forward with the dreams that I have. I loved your dynamic approach to helping people and the way you do it with such a sense of humour, I have spent a number of years following a spiritual path and your delivery really touches me to follow that direction. Please thank all the people on your team who helped make yesterday the success that it was." - Carol, workshop participant - Liverpool, UK
“The question you asked hit a chord and something released instantly. I felt it leave.” – June, workshop participant - Nashville, TN
After 2 weeks when asked "what was sustained?” She said:
“I feel freed up now. I have had an attitude shift and am more with myself. Something is still moving.”
“I felt the lifting in the room immediately and then with each person coached it got lighter and lighter and we were all affected. I feel a lightness, beauty and peacefulness and still carry it with me. I have been changed from having been there. I was profoundly changed by knowing everyone shares the same problems they just show up differently. I felt lightened up. A shift in another participant really hit home for me too when she realised she doesn’t have to give everything in order to get something”
- Rene, workshop participant - Nashville, TN
CoachingNow™ "Maria's Story"
From May 12-16 2008 Conscious Journey offered week-long bonanza of free coaching calls celebrating the launch of CoachingNow™. At the beginning of the week we asked if one person would be willing to be coached every day throughout the week and be willing to share their experience with us here. Maria kindly stepped in. Here's what she says:
Maria's Sharing:
After the first call Monday May 12th 2008, Maria wrote:
"Wow
and double Wow
When I signed up for this call, I was deeply deeply
sceptical of the claims made for ten minutes of
coaching, and cast an extremely jaundiced eye at the
information on the site. We seemed to be in the land
of American Hyperbole, but in a spirit of curiosity
and 'what do i have to lose' I signed up. After
listening to Anya's interventions with the first three
participants, I began to change my mind. She really
seems able to cut through the mindchatter and get
to the underlying issues very very quickly.
So whats my story about why my life is'nt working
the way I want it to ? I am the daughter of
a (undiagnosed) mentally ill mother and an
emotionally unavailabe father. None of the wider
family stayed in the UK, they either returned to
Ireland or emigrated to the States, so they did'nt
witness what was going on while I was growing up. The
family myth about my mother is that she was a 'Saint'
mistaking her religious mania for saintliness. Its
not easy being the daughter of a Saint...I can tell
you....you are not allowed to critisize although
I have some of the Saint virus in me...thinking I
have to rescue every lame duck who crosses my path....
it was exhausting.......so I've stopped. I keep a
journal and for some time have been grappling with a
success/failure pattern which I found hard to fully
come to grips with. Or maybe I just don't want to
see how much a hurt inner child was running the show?
It feels like all successs I achieved were done to
get her attention/approval and it never came. So I think
the pattern I am running is the success I achieved
was for her,and since I was'nt ever acknowledged
for what I did and usually criticised.......then
I'd have to do failure to show that I was hurt/
damaged and probably to punish myself as well.
This insight really is a result of Anya Sophia's
coaching, and whats more important is that I felt
a lightness in my body, a sense of possibility
that I can move beyond putting my parents in the
dock, ultimately while valid these excuses are old and
stale, and I need to move on to a achieve some longstanding goals
of mine. I know the body stuff is important and
am still mystified as to how Anya got to this
place so quickly.......Thank You......
Best Wishes
Maria"
CLICK HERE to read about CoachingNow™
After the second call on Tuesday May 13th, Maria wrote:
"Whats new here is for me to allow just how approval
seeking I really am. Its been a very big step just
to admit that. People on the call would not know that
for years I have put on a social mask of being tough,
and indepedent and very in control. To move, to
discard the mask has been a big stretch; to allow how driven
I have been to get my mother's approval.
Yesterday I had glimpse of how the mechanism of my sabotage
works.. and its not pretty....wanting to punish my mother
for failing at the job, because I was told so often
that I had a great childhood, and so many
opportunities which she did'nt have, and I should be grateful......
(my mother was not the best psycologist in the world)
I also remembered several incidents, long forgotten
which I wanted to share,and then realised getting
angry yet again, is no longer the point.
When Anya starting working with me today
I was able to fully let go of all 'the stuff'
just for a few blessed moments, I experienced a lot
of confusion and then just let it go........and
experienced enormous peace and a drifting sense, all
the urgency and rage gone............
if this is consiousness shifting then yes,who would'nt
want more of this ?
Its late now..... I shall write the letter to my
mother tomorrow
Blessings to all on the call
Maria"
CLICK HERE to read about CoachingNow™
After the call on Wednesday May 14th, Maria wrote:
"I decided to send a poem
It seemed in keeping with Anya Sophia's directions
to BREATHE, and the shallowness of breathing that
accompanies shame and fear.
Barely breathing, I take a stethoscope
to our relationship,
is there life there, yet,?
breathe in,life and light
breathe out
this testimony of pain
breathe in
my childish yearning
breathe out
the reprimands,the spurning
breathe in
slow silken moments
remembering a grandma's love
and her complicit camaraderie.
we are naughty allies
as we test the boundaries of love
breathe in safety,in my grannys painted parlour
breathe out
the betrayals and dishonor
the lies and the aloneness
breathe in connection
breathe out seperation
so here is loves prescription
for a life full beyond description
breathe in
all that you know
and all that you don't
breathe in,
hope
and live"
CLICK HERE to read about CoachingNow™
After the call on Thursday May 15th, Maria wrote:
"Today was a special day, the birthday of a man who
has been very important in my life. I phoned his sister
and got confirmation that Mike had been moved to a care
home. Mike has Alzheimers, and it developed at an
astonshing rate. I have cried a great deal over these
developements as Mike played the role of spiritual
mentor amongst other things in my life, and is probably
one of the people I have been the most challenging
and the most relaxed with. I never ever dreamed it
would come to this. But today was his birthday, and
I decided to celebrate it anyway. So I sat and
remebered all the good times, all the trips to
France,Prague,Morocco. And this man, this two finger
typist had labouriously typed out my stories for my
creative writing class. Wow. For more than twenty
years Mike offered two pieces of advice, don't hold onto
your anger......let it go.......and Have Fun.
Thats all right for you I would argue furiously
(getting angry) you are the adored older son,
YOU HAVE HAD IT EASY, and he would agree, (he always
disarmed me by graciously agreeing with me), and I
realised that this is Mike's legacy to me, So I sent
out a song of gratitude to the Universe, that I had known such a man
and that we had enjoyed each other so much. That
I relaxed enough with him to HAVE FUN, and that
I can let the anger go. And I danced, and I giggled
(music Moby aah yeah on A Night in nyc, and Sister
Sledge) and really let it go. Then I went to the
hairdressers cos i want to look good on Mikes
birthday. right? and she said......you look different
Are You in Love ?
Blessings to all
Maria"
CLICK HERE to read about CoachingNow™
At the end of the week Maria wrote:
"Something amazing happens when you play full out, doesn't it ? I certainly did play full out and its a long long time since I've done that. I was catapulted out of my normal ways of being on the second day of working with Anya Sophia, and it's such a delicious space to be in, peaceful, allowing, accepting, sensing the world as essentially benign, and thus disengaging with the 'story' of ones' failure or success.
Although I do have a difficult backgound, all the energy tied up with my sabotaging behavior seems to have gone, replaced by a sense of well being and being fully present to this moment.I do have some sad situations to deal with like my friend Mikes situation, however he is not sad, and he would be proud to know I have achieved this state.
Thank you both so much and to all who held the energy on the calls
Blessings
Maria"
CLICK HERE to read about CoachingNow™
Read teleclass testimonials here
Behind the Scenes with Anya Sophia:
Are you curious how Anya Sophia works? How is she is able to 'peel the layers' and go so deeply with clients in such an unbelievably short space of time?
Anya Sophia shares her experience of how she works from behind the scenes in her weblog. This is a must for all those of you who would like to learn how to do what Anya Sophia does!
Read Anya Sophia's Musings
CLICK HERE to read about CoachingNow™