What Does It Mean - a Spiritual Life Coach?

It’s a good question to start with - what is a spiritual Life Coach? But let’s start with the small stuff. I do phone coaching. That means I do not have an office and have never wanted one. You may never even get to meet me face-to-face. I hope you do but if you live in Florida, for example, and I live in Santa Monica, CA, that may not happen.

My first life skill coach lives in Santa Fe NM. We did not meet until 10 months after we began our professional life coach relationship.

We decided that I would go to Santa Fe and do a “private retreat” or intense face-to-face personal life skill coaching for a few days. Even though we knew each other so intimately, we felt shy when we met "in body" at the airport. Even though I had a picture of my Life Coach, until that time when I thought of her I almost thought of her as an ethereal being which was perfect since I always thought of her as a spiritual life coach.

So What Is a Spiritual Life Coach Already?

It's not about religion. I don't care what religion you do or do not belong to. It is about that invisible power that makes us alive - our spirit. So a spiritual Life Coach is very tuned into your being-ness. As a spiritual Life Coach myself, I have literally developed my intuition so well, that I often know things about you that you don't have clarity on yourself.

The question may arise for you, “How can she really know me if we don’t sit in the same room?” I will respond that coaching over the phone has refined my ability to zero in on my clients. My already fine-tuned intuition and sixth sense, has become even more finely tuned with all the years of phone coaching. There is a focus and stillness in the connection via phone lines. There is much research that proves our ability to effect others at a distance.

The kind of person most happy with my coaching is someone who wants both a life skill coach – to ask questions and point out different perspectives – and a mentor. Many professional Life Coaches largely ask powerful questions and give assignments or inquiries to think about.

I have a natural ability to help people see what's good about what's going on in their lives.

With 35 years of spiritual and personal growth and over 65 years of life behind me, I have a pretty good idea of many things that work and many that do not. I've had two long-term marriages - the current one 20+ years long and quite successful, a short marriage, two divorces, four children and a grandchild. I had a successful financial services career and ran a communications company in partnership with my husband. I have written a book and am writing another.

I will offer my opinions and guidance. I will often be helping you in gaining self confidence. Whereas many professional Life Coaches are trained to ask permission each time they offer their thoughts, I will tell you up front that that is part of what happens when working with me. Further, I'm totally open and strongly encourag clients to speak out wherever they differ. It is your life. I don't want to run it. I just want to give you what I have - my viewpoint.

I am noted for gentle intervention. If you are wanting strong and directive and authoritarian in a professional Life Coach, that is not me.

I am noted for gentle intervention. If you are wanting strong and directive and authoritarian in a professional Life Coach, that is not me. In my book, Once Upon a Time There Was You, there are two main characters: The Woman Who Was the Girl Who Was the Light (based on my young life) and the Wise Fairy God Mother.

Participants in workshops with me have dubbed me 'Wise Fairy God Mother' and I has gratefully decided to accept it.

Never get the impression that I think she has arrived and has no more to learn. After awhile, my clients feel perfectly free to guide my thinking and offer their wisdom to me– which I very gratefully accepts. As you read in the Standards, Practices and Ethics Pledge, it works best if a coach remains coachable herself.

If you don’t find yourself depicted here or resonating with what is described about you as client and Maia as a spiritual life coach, it is likely that you would still greatly benefit from the tools in my book and on the this site because you stopped and are still reading. My guess is that you are interested in personal development growth. And it would be a great idea to continue your search for a personal Life Coach, if that’s what you came looking for.

That's what coaching is all about - spiritual and personal growth. Personal spiritual growth might be called self fulfillment personal growth or personal growth development. Unless you are talking about technical courses to learn computer or programming skills or business management or any other hands-on kind of skill - all of which is quite useful - you are probably talking about growing yourself as a person.

And that would mean your spirit - your something that makes you a human - has been made to be able to handle life in a more functional manner.

Your Personal Growth Plan

You might never have thought of your growing or spiritual practice as fitting into a personal growth plan. Or maybe you think like I sometimes do, that God or my Higher Self often seems to make the decisions about self fulfillment personal growth and my personal spiritual growth.

Because I see all growth of the person as fitting into working with a spiritual Life Coach, you are really on the right track - looking for a personal Life Coach. I was curious a couple of years ago to find out what corporate or executive coaches did with their clients so I went to a couple of presentations by the Professional Coach Association locally. What a surprise! The presenters talked about what they talk to with their CEO and executive clients. Guess what? It's all the same. They wear a suit and may go to the office for their coaching and they probably have a corporate background so they can speak "corporatese" with their clients but they coach those execs about personal development growth and spiritual and personal growth.