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Maia Berens - ArticlesRecently I was asked what my coaching clients focus on or rather how I help. My response was “I’ve been coaching about 12 years. I help people with lots of things including getting their writing flowing, improving their relationships, or helping them see that they can have what they want in a relationship, improving their self image and self esteem, expanding their confidence, understanding the inner spiritual message and growth opportunity in the events of their life and uncovering, learning to believe it’s possible to do their dreams and beginning to make them happen.”
Please feel free to call me and we’ll chat to see if we are a good fit for each other. My number is 310-264-5625. My Story From Victimhood to the Love of My Life I went from victimhood rooted in childhood sexual abuse to an abusive marriage - to creating a long lasting, nurturing marriage with my current husband of 22 years. (Married twice? actually three times. Ask me about it.) Not everybody has to leave their marriage to have the love or their life but I did. It took years to see my situation clearly enough so that I could give myself permission to say it was the right thing to have done. It wasn’t that I hadn’t tried hard enough or done enough counseling or changed myself in enough ways. It was that he and I had way too much baggage that we brought along with us and had no possible way to deal with it within the relationship. It was many more years before I was able to take responsibility – without blaming myself or him – for my part in the marriage. I look at both of us with compassion and love. From Underpaid to Running a Company For many years, I was challenged with jobs that mismatched my talents - low pay and sometimes no job at all. By refocusing my talents and following some simple steps to improving my self-esteem, I became Founder and Director of the Mars Venus Institute (John Gray - best selling author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus) creating workshops and trainings for hundreds of professional speakers and therapists. For the past several years I have been developing my own material based on my Life Is A School attitude and all that I learned from wonderful teachers like John Gray and Barbara DeAngelis, Abraham Hicks, Rev. Michael Beckwith, Beth Fortman-Brand and my very own Wise Fairy God Mother, Janet Gross. I am so blessed in my life that I feel passionate about helping others develop the life-giving, victim-mentality crushing perspective that truly Life Is a School. From $ Denial to $ Classes My finances used to be monumentally difficult for me to manage - and a mess. I learned to become financially savvy and found a comfort zone for money matters. I’ve recently led a year long money/spiritual awareness class whose participants included a financial adviser! I’ve been learning from many places and many ways that prosperity in all things comes from allowing prosperity and abundance into our lives. I love sharing the wonderful tools that I’ve been using. From Bitter Divorce to Friends I have a history of healing and growing relationships even when I had felt seriously wronged. I used to broil whenever I saw even his handwriting on an envelope. I tried not to turn my children against their father but I know mean statements crept into my conversation all the time. I was embarrassed for people to know I had actually been married to him. And 5 years ago, my ex-husband made and paid for my 60th birthday party and the next year he took our whole family to Hawaii - including me! He even invited my husband, Bart! Nice friend, huh? From ‘No Creativity’ to Paid Author I have overcome writers’ block and am a professional author. I used to be afraid I was not a creative individual. My book, Once Upon a Time There Was You: Three Magic Secrets to Finding Your Real Self, became like my 5th child! I list all my learning and accomplishments for several reasons: * So you can get to know me * So you can see that I “walk my talk” and truly can help you change your life * To offer hope Gosh! I hate to cry! It messes up my makeup…I’ve never really written about my thoughts on crying and how sad I feel when I hear people apologizing for crying. Your tears are a gift to whomsoever gets to hear you – and hopefully give you a hug. What Is This Thing Called Me?**My husband says transformation is like learning golf or tennis. I believe learning anything requires focus, commitment and practice, whether it be learning to play a sport, an instrument or the game of life. I can teach you the rudiments of transformation however unless you apply the principles with focus, commitment and practice you will always only be a dabbler. The choice is yours. 9 Secrets to Overcome Body Image IssuesToday I weigh a very good weight for my 66 year old body and I totally love how I look. I’ve weighed this weight before and didn’t like how it looked at all even though it was 25 years younger, so it’s definitely not the weight that I’m at. It’s the learning to love myself. How a coach can help you to build a sense of trustAs you experience success after success in support of yourself, you eventually become a trusting person because you know you have the information inside you that will steer you where you want to go in your life. You will know if a person is trustworthy in your personal and work relationships and you will trust yourself to make decisions.
That is one of the things an experience of life coaching can provide you. Note to Self: The Universe seeks to find balanceI could tell you stories that support the above but those stories would cloud the truth. The truth I had to be willing to allow was to let this relationship go. I have done that. I feel the peace of growth and the "backlash" of balance I’ve achieved.
Anything niggling at you to look at causing you that out of balance feeling? Clothes Make the Man – Is It True?We live on an abundant planet that is out of balance but not lacking in anything. And as I said before, we create our own economic paradigm and ours includes some new clothes for ourselves for Christmas.
Maybe our new clothes will create us more and more a vibrational match toward great wealth. Imagine how much good we could do for ourselves, our family and the world. My Job as a Life Coach as I See It TodayI have no idea how I developed the gift of being able to teach, model, intuit all that I do with clients but it appears to be an ever-developing gift. It sure is fun to be able to see, speak and help those people who want to grow in awareness and expand their lives I love watching the magic of transformation as it occurs. I love holding the hand of those I work with and becoming part of their magnificent unfolding. Will Is Inner – Discipline Is OuterIf will is your inner source, it comes from a Power greater than yourself. (Uh oh. Is she talking about God?) Well, it can be God or it can just be all those people for whom this works. Alternatively, it can also be a belief in higher principles. Therefore, without that power – Great Creator, God, Universe, Good, Group consciousness, etc., we do not have contact with the will. You may have to use some outer discipline, until the inner inspiration takes over. What Do You Get When You Give Up Perfection?I chose my mother perfectly. She wanted me to be perfect and I bought into it totally. I imagine that the choice was made during some period when I was out of a body and just an energy - a soul - and decided that a good part of my path in this life would be to always try to be perfect, often fall very short and finally realize at age 66 that perfection is a mental box. It keeps creativity from entering. Why Do I Need a Life Coach AgainMost people find a time in their life where they may feel that they have lost their direction or everything that they thought that they wanted, is turning out to be not at all what they really do want. Is that happening to you? It is difficult in today's hustle and bustle world to remain passionate about your life, especially when you find that you are so busy working and taking care of responsibilities that you have no time left at the end of the day for yourself and what makes you happy?
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