About Me

What I wonder about:

  • Whether compassionately disrupting the status quo of your patterns is a beautiful direction to head?

  • Whether kindness and curiosity lead to healing and wholeness?

  • Does laughter, wonder, slowness, and the beauty of vulnerability bring us deeper?

  • Does environment shape behavior if so how? How does well-being take nonconforming freely and questioning deeply held beliefs?

  • How might Listening be love in action?

  • What does revealing our blind-spots offer to the world? Where does humility hold a place?

  • How is taking care of the more than human world, taking care of the human world?

  • Where does listening fit in shaping our past, present and future?

  • I wonder if every living being were to be seen, heard, and acknowledged what the world would become?

With two degrees in health-care under my belt, I spent 18 years as an RN in a hospital setting. At 40 I wanted a change and embarked on an eclectic educational path: Life and Health Coaching Certifications, The Embodied Life, Laughter Yoga, Heartmath, Nonviolent Communication and reading zillions of books on human potential and spirituality. I have helped over 3,000 clients. I am leaning towards the question; “How and what do I/we need to become/do to steward a world that supports all living beings”?

I am passionate about the more than human world and shaping how I/we co-steward (together with all living beings) the future. I also won best costume as a first grader in a school-wide competition, and at age 9 began taking ukulele lessons after seeing Tiny Tim on TV. My creative self and collective expression shows up in reverence for the natural world, singing and dancing, laughing, writing poetry, meandering river trails, swimming in cold waters, and facilitating Wonder Uprising and small group process!

Carol works with people in person, on the phone, and on Zoom.

 

About You

You are interested in being more curious, open, connected and honestly confused and bewildered and lost too.

This is a short list of what sparks my clients to come to coaching:

  • I wake up on Monday morning thinking this can’t be it, can it?

  • My friends are doing it, living this life that is so busy and chaotic. They are all smiling and acting like all is well. I think I’m crazy for feeling overwhelmed and anxious.

  • I want time to do something meaningful. Where the heck is the time?

  • Sometimes I feel like I don’t fit in; Something in me is yearning.

  • I have difficulty expressing my thoughts and feelings hence end up feeling disconnected and resentful.

  • I know I am here to offer something to the world but it’s gotten a bit lost in the status quo.

  • At the beginning of the day I believe in possibilities, hope burbles to the top and by the end I’m crawling into bed without brushing my teeth.

  • I feel so much pressure to do it all and do it right. Anxiety and overwhelm are regular visitors.

  • I want to do it differently, see my life freshly, and my old stories are shouting too loudly for me to hear anything else.

Do any of these statements sound familiar?

Here are some questions I love to ask clients:

  • Do you sense there is a sleeping giant in you? (The part of yourself you have not yet fully accessed or shared in the world). If the answer is yes, take five minutes right now and see if you can describe it.

  • What comes up for you when you don’t know something? How do you feel? What do you tell yourself? What do you do and say?

  • How do you connect with your inner life? And what voices inside you do you listen to the most?

  • What do you think about the cultural norms you live by? What about the roles you play?

  • How could self-care meld with collective care? A both/and.

  • Describe what it means to be fully alive in your life?

  • You have a magic wand in your hand and you can do whatever you want with it. Describe what you would do.

  • What are three qualities you love about yourself and why?

  • How do you distract yourself?

  • What opens you up?

Perhaps you found something that resonated for you, or you recognize asking questions like these would be helpful. If you’d like to chat about working together,
get in touch. If you’d like to get to know me better, read some of my writings. 

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