Life Purpose Coaching
How we work together
Do you recognize yourself in any of these scenarios?
- You feel deeply that there’s more to your life and what you can bring to this world at this time, but you feel lost and unsure of what your ‘thing‘ is.
- You are already bringing your gift to the world through your creativity or work/business, but you know you need to expand yourself beyond your current inner and outer limitations.
- You feel emboldened and stirred to find ways to show up, bringing forth your gift offering to the world. You’ve got the desire to do something, but you lack clarity about your gift offering even is.
- You are overwhelmed by all the possibilities and directions, thus feeling stuck in the ‘how do I make it happen‘ questioning phase.
- You have the vision of what you want to do, but you lack the confidence to put yourself out there, struggling to articulate your vision and how to bring it forth.
- Has the Great RETHINK & RESIGNATION of the last couple of years got you questioning if the only way to ‘earn a living‘ is within a soul-deadening system devoid of meaning and purpose?
- Has the constant barrage of ‘impending doom‘ left you in an existential crisis, caught between ‘why bother‘ and ‘what can I do?’
If you answered yes to any of the above…
It hasn’t been for lack of trying.
You’ve read the books, signed up for online courses, joined groups and masterminds, gone to workshops, explored these issues in therapy, and even worked with a coach.
No work done in this area is unfruitful. All you’ve tried helped you gain insight and perspective on your quest for answers. But you still feel something is missing, and you’re struggling to move ahead.
Then Life Purpose Coaching might be of help to you in your journey.
The spiral of self-discovery and healing
Exploring who you are and your purpose on this journey, so-called life, is more like a nautilus than a straight shot road with a well-marked destination.
At each turn of your life’s spiral, a new discovery or insight leads you deeper towards unfurling what’s deep within you.
It takes a loosening of your grip on wanting clear answers (now!) to allow you to engage with what’s rising more imaginatively.
You do this by exploring dreams, daydreams, and reveries and looking at repetitive patterns that show up in all corners of your life.
Your life is like a fairy tale
Fairy tales often start with a presenting issue in the form of something lacking. But that issue or lack has hidden inside the very answer that the protagonist will go on a quest to find.
The answer to our query is often found in the very question it poses to us.
Often in fairy tales, the hero or heroine finds their resolution by approaching the issue differently than those who came before them. They approach it with more imagination, a beginner’s mind, and the curiosity to entertain differing elements not tried before.
When exploring issues around purpose, livelihood, and the expression of your gifts to the world, you’re dealing with archetypal forces dancing with you. You’re not alone, and it’s best to engage in this process more imaginatively.
Whatever the issue, approach it as you would a prism
In a highly specialized culture, it’s common to think that we explore only that area to solve an issue. But the truth is that the answer often lies in unexpected corners of your life.
When it comes to exploring life purpose, livelihood, and creative expression, it’s best to engage with other areas of your life and get acquainted with the full landscape of your life’s wheel.
Claiming all the spokes of your life's wheel with Life Purpose Coaching
Essential
Self
Our work together will involve exploring what makes you – You – and reimagining your inner and outer resources, talents, and skills.
Because when you’re stuck in an issue, it’s time to come back to basics and reassess your untapped inner gold.
Creative
Self
Work and creative expression issues have deep roots in where you have come from.
Your life’s work – be it your career, your business, or your creative endeavor, has roots in your family, ancestral lines, and the unlived lives of your parents.
Relational
Self
As a protagonist of your fairy tale, your quest for purpose and meaning isn’t in a vacuum. What you find informs your relationships beyond your intimate circle.
It shows up in healing your inherited family dynamics while also informing your life’s motto.
Social-Spiritual
Self
What you bring forth through your quest, be it through your work, business, or creative endeavor, will ripple through the fabric of your community beyond what you can imagine.
Your quest for purpose and meaning is both a social and a spiritual journey.
On Life Purpose & Vocation
Behind the question – What’s my life purpose? Or its many variants lies the question of Vocation. Often confused with profession or career, Vocation has its root in the Latin word: VOCA, meaning ‘VOICE.’
Thus its original meaning was about FOLLOWING ONE’S CALLING. It’s about your quest to find your authentic voice in the world, aligning you to that which wants to be BIRTHED THROUGH YOU.
At its deepest root, finding your LIFE’S PURPOSE or answering the call of your VOCATION is the synthesis of your LIFE’S WORK, or as the alchemists called: YOUR OPUS.
This OPUS, the great work, is a lifelong process of deepening how you EXPRESS YOURSELF MORE FULLY IN THE WORLD.
Purpose and Vocation aren’t a one-and-done deal, where you receive the envelope addressed to you with clear and well-marked instructions.
When it comes to PURPOSE and VOCATION, you’re dealing with a summons from deep within, beckoning you to GIVE IT FORM AND LIFE.
It’s about BECOMING WHO YOU ARE – more fully and wholly.
You’re here to fully become who you are, reclaim your unexpressed self, and bring your INNER GOLD to the world.
The work involves peeling back the layers that cloud your vision and sense of possibility.
With all that’s unfolding in the world, and perhaps your own life, in these last few years, has got you rethinking, even reimagining, the intersection of who you are and what you do for work.
Because it’s times such as these, chaotic and yet highly creative, you’re invited to reimagine the thin line between who you are, what gives you joy and meaning, and how you share your gifts with the world.
Here’s a menu of options to choose from.
a Call
If what you read resonates with you and you want to learn more about how we can work together, I invite you to schedule a call.
This 30-minute Zoom call is an opportunity to ask any questions you might have about my work. We’ll discuss my coaching approach and how we could work together.
Choose this if you want to see if we’re a fit, answer any other questions you might have, or address any concerns. This is not a sales pitch call. It’s an opportunity to ask your questions, make a connection, and take it from there.
Session
This Consulting Session is great if you need a strategic perspective and a big-picture overview of what’s unfolding in your life now.
During this two-hour session, we will have an in-depth conversation where I’ll blend my coaching and astrological approaches to help you address what’s most pressing to you at present.
Choose this if you are new to my work, want to see if we are a good fit for a longer-term coaching engagement, or if you are a returning client wishing to do a check-in but don’t require a coaching program.
Coaching Program
This coaching program is for you if you feel a calling to embrace different aspects of yourself that you no longer want to keep buried or on the sidelines.
We’d work together for twelve 60-minute sessions spread out within six months to deeply explore your intersection of purpose, livelihood, and what and how to bring your gift offering to the world.
Choose this if you are ready to go deep and claim all the spokes of your life’s wheel. You are prepared to walk the talk, take action, and stop pushing it for “tomorrow.”
A nourishing shift in perspective
Vanessa has incredible insight; she helps you navigate the steps that allow you to see the blocks you didn’t even know were there.
Using facts and gracefully articulating intuitive thoughts to help coach you to have a deeper look within.
I felt so productive working with her during my sabbatical and feel armed with a better understanding of what I want.
Ready, set, GO!
– Amanda Needham
Costume Designer
Clarity unfurls with time and action
It’s normal to feel anxious when you’re in a state of not knowing or being unable to see the path ahead clearly. Your Ego gets all impatient and starts demanding clarity – now.
This impatience can make you feel that you don’t have much time and must ‘get on with it.’
However, impatience is the enemy of clarity.
Clarity invites you to realign with your rhythm, slow down and see what rises from within, both in body and soul.
The clarity you want is about UNFURLING. It’s about going deeper into your spiral, showing up with CURIOSITY and a BEGINNER’S MIND of POSSIBILITIES.
It invites willingness to explore the story you’ve been telling yourself in-depth because the INNER GOLD is hidden in the pain of the problem you’re stuck on.
Although this unfurling has its rhythm and time, it doesn’t mean it’s static. It invites you to TAKE ACTION—small iterative steps towards your vision.
Each action taken is a stage for unfurling the clarity you seek.
I’m so glad we got to work together
I love being a massage therapist but have disliked working in the business. Working on my business had always felt onerous and type A activities.
Vanessa gave me the language and vision to change that thinking. Now I massage my business just like I massage my clients. Thank you!!!
– Brio Howard
Massage Therapist
The magnifying glass that helps you focus.
Vanessa is the magnifying glass that helps you focus on whatever you’re needing to work on in your creative life.
She’s super smart and intuitive, using her knowledge of myths, astrology, psychology, marketing, and art to inspire and explore with you.
Our work together was a journey of varying focuses. It was a great opportunity to dig down and see my motivations for my creative work.
Taking the time to focus on it all was super helpful, and of course, Vanessa’s insightful questions while guiding me down different paths of curiosity was wonderful.
– C.T.
Artist, Jeweler & Photographer
