ABOUT ME
Welcome!
I am Melissa Arthur, Integrative Wellness Coach and Founder of Illuminate Guidance, LLC. I believe each of us has the power to create a healthy, joyful, purpose-driven life. For most of us, there’s a gap between our current experience of life and our highest aspirations. When we are supported and open to exploring this gap, new resources and possibilities emerge.
I work with bright, creative, motivated women who want to live their life's purpose and shine from the inside out. My vision of wellness goes beyond the absence of disease to include a consistent experience of satisfaction, enthusiasm and joy. It's about thriving, not just surviving. It starts with owning our inner authority so we can more fully know, love, trust and be ourselves. It continues with cultivating internal strength, balance and joy that radiates from within. It extends to spark clarity, courage, and inspiration to shine our light and share our unique gifts with the world.
At the core of my being I have always enjoyed helping others. Friends and strangers alike are drawn to my ability to lovingly listen to and accept them for exactly who they are, while challenging them to become more of who they are meant to be. My clients often say that my zest for life, joyful presence, and infectious laughter help them feel at ease, with a sense that something wonderful is about to happen.
I am Melissa Arthur, Integrative Wellness Coach and Founder of Illuminate Guidance, LLC. I believe each of us has the power to create a healthy, joyful, purpose-driven life. For most of us, there’s a gap between our current experience of life and our highest aspirations. When we are supported and open to exploring this gap, new resources and possibilities emerge.
I work with bright, creative, motivated women who want to live their life's purpose and shine from the inside out. My vision of wellness goes beyond the absence of disease to include a consistent experience of satisfaction, enthusiasm and joy. It's about thriving, not just surviving. It starts with owning our inner authority so we can more fully know, love, trust and be ourselves. It continues with cultivating internal strength, balance and joy that radiates from within. It extends to spark clarity, courage, and inspiration to shine our light and share our unique gifts with the world.
At the core of my being I have always enjoyed helping others. Friends and strangers alike are drawn to my ability to lovingly listen to and accept them for exactly who they are, while challenging them to become more of who they are meant to be. My clients often say that my zest for life, joyful presence, and infectious laughter help them feel at ease, with a sense that something wonderful is about to happen.
What led you to become an Integrative Wellness Coach?
Freedom to experience all that life has to offer is core value of mine. To answer the question of what led me here to coach people like you, I want to share with you some life experiences that brought me to where I am today. I arrived at my current experience of abundant love, health and emotional freedom only after navigating through a tragic death, divorce, and health crisis. I draw wisdom, empathy, gratitude and inspiration from the joy, love, and pain of my own life experiences. It is through these experiences that I’ve been led to coach people like you on how to own your inner authority to live your life's purpose and shine from the inside out.
I was raised by the most kind, generous, and supportive parents a human could ask for. I am deeply grateful to have enjoyed a well-adjusted childhood that was, for the most part, smooth sailing. My early life set me up for success in so many important ways, yet, provided little experience with navigating crisis or trauma. I went to college, started my career, got married, adopted a puppy, and built a house...carefully checking off all the cultural identity markers that I believed would set me up for a secure and meaningful future.
In 2006, I was off and running with a career in a non-profit environmental education organization and a happy home life. I was traveling for work when I received a call from my husband informing me that our beloved golden retriever, Fern, had been shot and killed by a neighbor. The pain and fear resulting from this act of violence broke me open and woke me up in ways I had never imagined possible. My struggle to find healing and forgiveness required me to examine my life, and myself, through a more heart-focused lens. I started to explore my internal landscape and came into an understanding that my life is about transformation, growth and connection. My inner guidance showed me that the freedom to fully feel my feelings and to choose love over fear were essential to my ability to move forward, but my external reality was not aligning with my needs. As I began to integrate this new awareness, I discovered that the path that led me to a more authentic, spiritually aligned version of myself was leading me away from my marriage. My now ex-husband and I found a way to uncouple our lives.
In 2007 I found myself all alone, in the home we had built for our family. On good days I would tell myself it was all worth it, that I would find the strength to rebuild a joyful life that fulfilled my soul’s purpose. Most days, I felt fearful and stuck financially and emotionally. It became clear that I needed to do deeper work to trust my inner wisdom and know my higher self in a more intimate way. I spent a year focused on internal exploration, spending my time outside of work simply caring for myself and finding clarity on what my best life looked and felt like.
In 2009, I was introduced to my current husband, Mike, by a mutual friend. I felt so grateful to open my heart to a man who rose to meet my high expectations and lovingly adapted as I continued to grow and transform. As our romance blossomed, we re-oriented ourselves to joy, which was life transforming for him and inspiring for me. Together, we grew and ate beautiful food, enjoyed live music, spent time in nature, laughed, dreamed, and adopted two dogs. We built a solid foundation for our relationship which allowed each of us the freedom to be exactly who we are with support and space to become who we most wanted to be as individuals and as a couple.
It was around this time that years of stress, fatigue and hard work had taken a toll on my body. My symptoms became debilitating, and after extensive testing, my Doctor presented a grim prognosis. When she recommended taking a prescription and doing my best to accept and manage a disease that would continue to progress, something deep within me knew I had to find another way to heal myself. My Doctor agreed to partner with me as I sought the help of a Functional Medicine Practitioner. With the guidance of this integrated medical team, I made changes to improve my stress levels, diet and lifestyle that addressed the root cause of the disease. Within 6 months I was completely healed.
Yoga, Meditation and Ayurveda (an ancient healing art and sister science to yoga) were essential to my healing. Through Yoga, I became part of a joyful and loving circle of women who shared my passion for conscious creation and physical, psychological and spiritual transformation. To my great surprise, a friend invited me to partner on creating a new yoga studio in 2011, and I said yes to becoming a small business owner! I delighted in this opportunity to share the life-transforming practices of Yoga, Meditation and Ayurveda with my community and continue to learn so much as both a teacher and student of these ancient traditions.
Teaching a workshop about aligning with Dharma (life purpose) at our studio in 2015 challenged me to re-examine my career path. As I engaged with my students in the work of Dharma discovery, the words nourish, connect, and transform came up for me again and again. It hit me like a ton of bricks that my innate ability to help others honor their inner wisdom, cultivate balance & strength and align with joy is the most important work of my life. This has always been my nature, but I had been pursuing other professional interests while quietly supporting those in my inner circle to transform their lives. As a director in a non-profit organization and owner of a yoga studio, I was providing leadership and holding space for some really important work, but I began to feel pulled to spend more time supporting women one on one. Not long after, my calling to become an Integrative Wellness Coach presented itself and I accepted.
I healed my heart and body, aligned with my true life purpose, owned my inner authority to create a life I love, then started supporting women to do the same. I have since become an International Coaching Federation (ICF) Certified Coach and founded Illuminate Guidance, LLC to help even more women to explore the possibility of inviting more self-love and confidence into their lives while feeling emotionally, spiritually and physically balanced. As an Integrative Wellness Coach, I have worked with many private clients and led workshops and group experiences that have helped women transform their lives and communities.
I have created Strength, Balance & Joy , a 6 part system that every bright, creative, motivated woman needs to transform their experience of life from surviving tho thriving. Through this work, I get to live my dream and learn from so many amazing women who are being and doing so much to make our world a better place. When I help them to come more fully into their power and move past what is holding them back, they create the kind of community and world that I want to live in.
Who are your clients?
I work with bright, creative, motivated women who want to live their life's purpose and shine from the inside out, but who are currently feeling depleted, dissatisfied, or stuck in some area of their life. I work with those who would like to own their inner authority to cultivate internal balance and strength, align with joy, and answer the call to be something greater for themselves and the world.
Are you…
What makes you different from other Integrative Wellness Coaches?
My vision of wellness goes beyond the absence of disease to include a consistent experience of satisfaction, enthusiasm and joy. It's about thriving, not just surviving. It starts with owning our inner authority so we can more fully know, love, trust and be ourselves. It continues with cultivating internal strength, balance and joy that radiates from within. It extends to spark clarity, courage, and inspiration to shine our light and share our unique gifts with the world.
My clients benefit from my extensive study of yoga, meditation and Ayurveda whether or not they practice these personally. What my teacher, Kathryn Templeton, calls a "5,000+ year longitudinal study" plus my own experience of healing provide compelling evidence of the life transforming power of these ancient healing perspectives to maximize human physical, psychological, and spiritual potential.
I believe your body, mind and spirit are wise and resourceful, and ready to align with your highest desires. You are worthy of receiving all that life has to offer, and of realizing your life’s purpose with ease, grace and joy. My approach to coaching recognizes you as a biologically, psychologically, and spiritually unique individual. We will start where you are and go where you want to go. I’m concerned with helping you own your inner authority to be the most vibrant, joyful, purposeful version of you. I will help you to cut through the ever-changing, often confusing, cultural dialogue of fear and shame to honor yourself as the #1 authority on how to know, love, and care for your needs. Because of this, my clients experience lasting balance and ease in their health and feel more joyful, enthusiastic, and satisfied in all aspects of their lives.
I believe in and practice with respect to:
As a supportive, open-minded and objective coach, I will walk beside you as you inquire deeply into your own needs and resources, co-create a plan for transformation, and activate strategies to reach your goals. I create space for you to express your full range of emotions and ideas freely and without judgment. I will often see more beauty and more possibilities within you than you can see and serve as a mirror for you to discover more self-love and confidence. Your life purpose and your path to fulfill it are uniquely your own. I believe that your inner wisdom and guidance will lead you wherever you need to go, and I am deeply honored to hold a safe and creative space for you to discover.
What type of personality do you work best with and what is expected of me?
My Strength, Balance, Joy coaching program, workshops, and group experiences were created for people who are ready to explore new possibilities. This means not just wishing things were different, but committed to honoring your needs and embracing your potential to experience life on your own terms. My programs were created for women who are committed, decisive and resourceful. They were created for you to design and activate strategies within a few months (sometimes weeks!), which will eventually lead you to love and trust yourself, live your life's purpose and shine from the inside out.
Being a bright, creative, motivated woman myself, I’m known to work best with other bright, creative and motivated women, people who are committed to their success, who are super-ready to get going and follow through on their commitment to themselves. You will be expected to take consistent action, and to be open to new ways of thinking. You will be fully supported to step more fully into your power to feel great and live life on YOUR terms.
For what type of people are your programs NOT going to work?
Because I care about my clients’ well-being and my own professional integrity, I work only with clients who I can serve within my specific areas of expertise and scope of practice. Please know I’m very selective in who I work with and I choose my clients carefully, (gently) turning away people who aren’t suited for my programs and won’t get the results for which they would have signed up. The Strength, Balance & Joy programs are designed for women who are functioning well enough in life to meet their basic needs, but ready to focus on creating a future that is more purposeful, joyful and satisfying.
My coaching program is not for those who are currently in crisis (emotional, health, financial, or otherwise), at least not right away. It has been my experience that people in crisis do not receive full benefit from the coaching process. It is human nature that when our basic needs are not being met, our energy is allocated to healing and survival rather than future vision and goals. If you fall within this category, it’s absolutely OK. We’ve all been in times of crisis at one point or another, and it is imperative that you get the support you need. Here are two options you might consider:
Doing these two things will really help you get primed for our work together. I can absolutely work with you to support and sustain the work you are doing under the care of doctor or mental health professional once you are on more stable ground. When you’re ready, call me and we’ll get you started. I’m in no rush and will be here when you need me.
What exactly is Strength, Balance & Joy and what does it include?
Strength, Balance & Joy is a powerful coaching partnership that will help you to cultivate new awareness, access your inner resources, spark inspiration and confidence to try new approaches, and support you in letting go of what is standing between you and your next level of strength, balance, and joy.
Our work together begins with aligning with your core values and uncovering your heart’s desire as a foundation to coach you into living according to what is most important to you. From there, we’ll establish concrete, measurable goals and activate strategies to help you honor your inner authority to achieve them. The coaching process will meet you where you are and is completely customized to meet your unique needs and objectives. Our work together will unfold according to your needs, and will include the following six components.
What results can I expect?
My clients consistently experience the following benefits, and you can too:
Does this really work?
Yes! The result of our work is an approach to help you honor your Self as the #1 authority in your life and, in the words of my clients...
How else can I find out what it’s like to work with you?
My clients are getting great results and have taken time to write about how working with me has impacted their lives. Please go to the Client Testimonials page and read all of them. You will likely find someone who is in a similar situation to your own and is enjoying the results you would like to achieve with the support of a coach. Watching my videos on YouTube, reading my Blog and joining the discussion on my Facebook Group are great ways to get to know me, the next best thing to meeting in person!
If you have additional questions, please feel free to reach out to me directly via email and/or book a free breakthrough session with me. It is my intention for you to have a complete understanding of exactly who I am and what I offer so that when you sign up to work with me you can do so with clarity and confidence that I am the right coach for you.
How quickly can I expect results?
That depends on how quickly you can make those inner shifts. Some clients are ready to achieve mindset shifts and take action to cultivate strength, balance and joy in a very short time frame, sometimes even a few weeks, while others have a bit more work to do first. It also depends on your ability to consistently follow through on the action steps and experiments we design together as part of each session.
How can I guarantee myself that I will get more connected to my power and purpose in record time?
Be totally committed to your success. Follow through on your homework between sessions. Understand that this is a process, a proven one, that works if you take action. All my clients who have embraced the process of Strength, Balance & Joy are consistently taking powerful, spiritually aligned action to improve their experience of life in much less time than they would have on their own AND seeing the positive impact of their inner shifts extend to family and work life. .
Melissa, based on everything I’ve read and heard about you, I know you’re the one I want to work with. What are my options for getting started with you?
Congratulations on making a decision for your growth and expansion! I’m happy to work with you to achieve your goals... The best way to work with me is in my one-on-one coaching program.
OK, I’m ready to do this for myself, but I have a couple of additional questions. Can I call you?
Good, sounds like you’re ready to be pulled into the beautiful future that awaits! Yes, if you have a couple of questions, just email me or go ahead and schedule your breakthrough call with me. I’ll be happy to walk you through the different options to see which one will be the very best for you. I can’t wait to see you succeed and am honored to be the one to help you. Let’s get going!
To your freedom, expansion and joy, Melissa
Freedom to experience all that life has to offer is core value of mine. To answer the question of what led me here to coach people like you, I want to share with you some life experiences that brought me to where I am today. I arrived at my current experience of abundant love, health and emotional freedom only after navigating through a tragic death, divorce, and health crisis. I draw wisdom, empathy, gratitude and inspiration from the joy, love, and pain of my own life experiences. It is through these experiences that I’ve been led to coach people like you on how to own your inner authority to live your life's purpose and shine from the inside out.
I was raised by the most kind, generous, and supportive parents a human could ask for. I am deeply grateful to have enjoyed a well-adjusted childhood that was, for the most part, smooth sailing. My early life set me up for success in so many important ways, yet, provided little experience with navigating crisis or trauma. I went to college, started my career, got married, adopted a puppy, and built a house...carefully checking off all the cultural identity markers that I believed would set me up for a secure and meaningful future.
In 2006, I was off and running with a career in a non-profit environmental education organization and a happy home life. I was traveling for work when I received a call from my husband informing me that our beloved golden retriever, Fern, had been shot and killed by a neighbor. The pain and fear resulting from this act of violence broke me open and woke me up in ways I had never imagined possible. My struggle to find healing and forgiveness required me to examine my life, and myself, through a more heart-focused lens. I started to explore my internal landscape and came into an understanding that my life is about transformation, growth and connection. My inner guidance showed me that the freedom to fully feel my feelings and to choose love over fear were essential to my ability to move forward, but my external reality was not aligning with my needs. As I began to integrate this new awareness, I discovered that the path that led me to a more authentic, spiritually aligned version of myself was leading me away from my marriage. My now ex-husband and I found a way to uncouple our lives.
In 2007 I found myself all alone, in the home we had built for our family. On good days I would tell myself it was all worth it, that I would find the strength to rebuild a joyful life that fulfilled my soul’s purpose. Most days, I felt fearful and stuck financially and emotionally. It became clear that I needed to do deeper work to trust my inner wisdom and know my higher self in a more intimate way. I spent a year focused on internal exploration, spending my time outside of work simply caring for myself and finding clarity on what my best life looked and felt like.
In 2009, I was introduced to my current husband, Mike, by a mutual friend. I felt so grateful to open my heart to a man who rose to meet my high expectations and lovingly adapted as I continued to grow and transform. As our romance blossomed, we re-oriented ourselves to joy, which was life transforming for him and inspiring for me. Together, we grew and ate beautiful food, enjoyed live music, spent time in nature, laughed, dreamed, and adopted two dogs. We built a solid foundation for our relationship which allowed each of us the freedom to be exactly who we are with support and space to become who we most wanted to be as individuals and as a couple.
It was around this time that years of stress, fatigue and hard work had taken a toll on my body. My symptoms became debilitating, and after extensive testing, my Doctor presented a grim prognosis. When she recommended taking a prescription and doing my best to accept and manage a disease that would continue to progress, something deep within me knew I had to find another way to heal myself. My Doctor agreed to partner with me as I sought the help of a Functional Medicine Practitioner. With the guidance of this integrated medical team, I made changes to improve my stress levels, diet and lifestyle that addressed the root cause of the disease. Within 6 months I was completely healed.
Yoga, Meditation and Ayurveda (an ancient healing art and sister science to yoga) were essential to my healing. Through Yoga, I became part of a joyful and loving circle of women who shared my passion for conscious creation and physical, psychological and spiritual transformation. To my great surprise, a friend invited me to partner on creating a new yoga studio in 2011, and I said yes to becoming a small business owner! I delighted in this opportunity to share the life-transforming practices of Yoga, Meditation and Ayurveda with my community and continue to learn so much as both a teacher and student of these ancient traditions.
Teaching a workshop about aligning with Dharma (life purpose) at our studio in 2015 challenged me to re-examine my career path. As I engaged with my students in the work of Dharma discovery, the words nourish, connect, and transform came up for me again and again. It hit me like a ton of bricks that my innate ability to help others honor their inner wisdom, cultivate balance & strength and align with joy is the most important work of my life. This has always been my nature, but I had been pursuing other professional interests while quietly supporting those in my inner circle to transform their lives. As a director in a non-profit organization and owner of a yoga studio, I was providing leadership and holding space for some really important work, but I began to feel pulled to spend more time supporting women one on one. Not long after, my calling to become an Integrative Wellness Coach presented itself and I accepted.
I healed my heart and body, aligned with my true life purpose, owned my inner authority to create a life I love, then started supporting women to do the same. I have since become an International Coaching Federation (ICF) Certified Coach and founded Illuminate Guidance, LLC to help even more women to explore the possibility of inviting more self-love and confidence into their lives while feeling emotionally, spiritually and physically balanced. As an Integrative Wellness Coach, I have worked with many private clients and led workshops and group experiences that have helped women transform their lives and communities.
I have created Strength, Balance & Joy , a 6 part system that every bright, creative, motivated woman needs to transform their experience of life from surviving tho thriving. Through this work, I get to live my dream and learn from so many amazing women who are being and doing so much to make our world a better place. When I help them to come more fully into their power and move past what is holding them back, they create the kind of community and world that I want to live in.
Who are your clients?
I work with bright, creative, motivated women who want to live their life's purpose and shine from the inside out, but who are currently feeling depleted, dissatisfied, or stuck in some area of their life. I work with those who would like to own their inner authority to cultivate internal balance and strength, align with joy, and answer the call to be something greater for themselves and the world.
Are you…
- Meeting everyone else’s needs and expectations but struggling to meet your own?
- Experiencing a growing sense of dissatisfaction with some aspect of your life?
- Stuck in survival mode and feeling depleted?
- Knowing deep down you were meant for greater things but not sure how to change course?
- Finding life keeps getting in the way of changes you know you need to make for your health and well-being?
- Yearning to share your brilliance with the world in a way that creates more abundance and joy for yourself, your community and your world?
What makes you different from other Integrative Wellness Coaches?
My vision of wellness goes beyond the absence of disease to include a consistent experience of satisfaction, enthusiasm and joy. It's about thriving, not just surviving. It starts with owning our inner authority so we can more fully know, love, trust and be ourselves. It continues with cultivating internal strength, balance and joy that radiates from within. It extends to spark clarity, courage, and inspiration to shine our light and share our unique gifts with the world.
My clients benefit from my extensive study of yoga, meditation and Ayurveda whether or not they practice these personally. What my teacher, Kathryn Templeton, calls a "5,000+ year longitudinal study" plus my own experience of healing provide compelling evidence of the life transforming power of these ancient healing perspectives to maximize human physical, psychological, and spiritual potential.
I believe your body, mind and spirit are wise and resourceful, and ready to align with your highest desires. You are worthy of receiving all that life has to offer, and of realizing your life’s purpose with ease, grace and joy. My approach to coaching recognizes you as a biologically, psychologically, and spiritually unique individual. We will start where you are and go where you want to go. I’m concerned with helping you own your inner authority to be the most vibrant, joyful, purposeful version of you. I will help you to cut through the ever-changing, often confusing, cultural dialogue of fear and shame to honor yourself as the #1 authority on how to know, love, and care for your needs. Because of this, my clients experience lasting balance and ease in their health and feel more joyful, enthusiastic, and satisfied in all aspects of their lives.
I believe in and practice with respect to:
- Dharmic Self-Determination: Each individual is free to discover and define his/her Dharma, life purpose, or reason for being. The way in which an individual aligns with their life purpose is self-determined and may evolve and change throughout life. The cultivation of leadership qualities and effective delivery systems can accelerate an individual’s progress toward realizing their life’s purpose.
- Leadership & Inner Authority: Each individual is capable of exercising leadership in every aspect of life, anywhere, any time. Leadership is an activity, not a position. The most powerful leadership emerges when we embrace our own inner authority to create the change we wish to see.
- Spiritual Freedom: Each individual’s spiritual journey is unique, and highly personal. Some may choose to follow a traditional or ancestral spiritual path, some create their own spiritual path, some adopt the spiritual traditions of other cultures, and some do not consider spirituality to be part of their life’s journey. Each individual follows their own truth and is free to determine their own path.
- Bio-Individuality: Each individual is biologically and genetically unique, impacted by myriad and diverse life experiences and exposures. The nutritional, emotional, lifestyle, and activity needs of each individual vary based on physical constitution, life demands, seasons of the year, and phases of life. Each individual’s inner wisdom is the most powerful tool for aligning with what is most nourishing and supportive.
As a supportive, open-minded and objective coach, I will walk beside you as you inquire deeply into your own needs and resources, co-create a plan for transformation, and activate strategies to reach your goals. I create space for you to express your full range of emotions and ideas freely and without judgment. I will often see more beauty and more possibilities within you than you can see and serve as a mirror for you to discover more self-love and confidence. Your life purpose and your path to fulfill it are uniquely your own. I believe that your inner wisdom and guidance will lead you wherever you need to go, and I am deeply honored to hold a safe and creative space for you to discover.
What type of personality do you work best with and what is expected of me?
My Strength, Balance, Joy coaching program, workshops, and group experiences were created for people who are ready to explore new possibilities. This means not just wishing things were different, but committed to honoring your needs and embracing your potential to experience life on your own terms. My programs were created for women who are committed, decisive and resourceful. They were created for you to design and activate strategies within a few months (sometimes weeks!), which will eventually lead you to love and trust yourself, live your life's purpose and shine from the inside out.
Being a bright, creative, motivated woman myself, I’m known to work best with other bright, creative and motivated women, people who are committed to their success, who are super-ready to get going and follow through on their commitment to themselves. You will be expected to take consistent action, and to be open to new ways of thinking. You will be fully supported to step more fully into your power to feel great and live life on YOUR terms.
For what type of people are your programs NOT going to work?
Because I care about my clients’ well-being and my own professional integrity, I work only with clients who I can serve within my specific areas of expertise and scope of practice. Please know I’m very selective in who I work with and I choose my clients carefully, (gently) turning away people who aren’t suited for my programs and won’t get the results for which they would have signed up. The Strength, Balance & Joy programs are designed for women who are functioning well enough in life to meet their basic needs, but ready to focus on creating a future that is more purposeful, joyful and satisfying.
My coaching program is not for those who are currently in crisis (emotional, health, financial, or otherwise), at least not right away. It has been my experience that people in crisis do not receive full benefit from the coaching process. It is human nature that when our basic needs are not being met, our energy is allocated to healing and survival rather than future vision and goals. If you fall within this category, it’s absolutely OK. We’ve all been in times of crisis at one point or another, and it is imperative that you get the support you need. Here are two options you might consider:
- Seek the support of a qualified doctor, therapist, financial counselor or other professional to get you out of crisis and back on track. This will take the edge off and provide a little more peace of mind so you can focus on your Strength, Balance & Joy goals and the BIG picture.
- Sign up for my free Facebook Group. The free information, inspiration, and supportive community interactions provided here will get you started toward your goals until you’re ready to work with me one-on-one.
Doing these two things will really help you get primed for our work together. I can absolutely work with you to support and sustain the work you are doing under the care of doctor or mental health professional once you are on more stable ground. When you’re ready, call me and we’ll get you started. I’m in no rush and will be here when you need me.
What exactly is Strength, Balance & Joy and what does it include?
Strength, Balance & Joy is a powerful coaching partnership that will help you to cultivate new awareness, access your inner resources, spark inspiration and confidence to try new approaches, and support you in letting go of what is standing between you and your next level of strength, balance, and joy.
Our work together begins with aligning with your core values and uncovering your heart’s desire as a foundation to coach you into living according to what is most important to you. From there, we’ll establish concrete, measurable goals and activate strategies to help you honor your inner authority to achieve them. The coaching process will meet you where you are and is completely customized to meet your unique needs and objectives. Our work together will unfold according to your needs, and will include the following six components.
- Clarify and align with your core values: Your well-being starts with establishing a clear self-identity. Core values are that part of you that is unchanging and that defines who you are. What are the core values, the beliefs and ideas that get you out of bed in the morning, and that guide your decisions? Let’s get crystal clear on what makes your life meaningful, what you need to steer clear of, and what is non-negotiable for you in life and then coach you into living these values each and every day.
- Uncover your heart’s desire: Getting clear on our desires can help us to become conscious creators of a full and satisfying life. We’ll explore your life’s successes and challenges through the lens of four key areas and identify where our focus is most needed (1) Purpose (what we are meant to do and contribute to the world); (2) Pleasure (beauty, satisfaction and delight in our life and relationships); (3) Support (physical health, money, home); and (4) Spiritual fulfillment (however you define it). Let’s find out what you really want and then coach you into living it.
- Establish your goals & priorities: Get clear on your priorities, and set measurable, attainable goals to get you from where you are to where you want to be. Let’s establish your vision and design a new pathway for you to live into it.
- Strengthen the power and authority within you: Diagnose the power dynamics of your situation and activate strategies to overcome fear and own your inner strength and authority to be, do and have what you most desire.
- Discover what more is possible for you: Apply the mindset shifts that you have achieved to open up even more possibilities.
- Celebrate and sustain your success: Acknowledge your efforts and celebrate your breakthroughs. Activate strategies to maintain and amplify the results of your work.
What results can I expect?
My clients consistently experience the following benefits, and you can too:
- Own your Inner Authority to know, love, and care for your needs
- Redefine success based more on who you are and how you feel than what you do and have
- Take powerful, spiritually aligned action to improve your experience of life
- Be something greater for yourself and your world
- Laugh more, love more, have more fun in your life
- Connect to and live from your core values and soul’s purpose
- Nourish your body, mind and spirit to fuel energy and creativity
- Set boundaries that protect your energy and priorities and improve your relationships
- Release what’s not serving you and invite in what will
- Get real and get out of your own way
- Set meaningful goals and activate strategies to achieve them
- Alleviate stress and anxiety
- Expand your perspective and discover more possibilities for your life
- Stop giving your power away to win at someone else’s game and step into your own power
- Speak your truth and be heard
- Experience more joy, enthusiasm and satisfaction
- Feel empowered & excited about the future
- Find that inner peace, balance and rootedness will become your new “normal”
- Raise your vibration to align with unconditional love and compassion
- Enjoy more ease and grace in your life
- Connect with your intuition
- Understand and honor how your soul is awakening and developing
- Gain control of your thoughts, behaviors and emotions
- Reinvent yourself and step into a higher standard of living
Does this really work?
Yes! The result of our work is an approach to help you honor your Self as the #1 authority in your life and, in the words of my clients...
- “...instill in me a confidence in myself and the ability to let my heart be open to all possibilities.”
- “...realize that, when you have the courage to look the issues in the face, and answer the difficult questions, you really have the power to write your own story.”
- “...realize a more purposeful and thriving life.”
How else can I find out what it’s like to work with you?
My clients are getting great results and have taken time to write about how working with me has impacted their lives. Please go to the Client Testimonials page and read all of them. You will likely find someone who is in a similar situation to your own and is enjoying the results you would like to achieve with the support of a coach. Watching my videos on YouTube, reading my Blog and joining the discussion on my Facebook Group are great ways to get to know me, the next best thing to meeting in person!
If you have additional questions, please feel free to reach out to me directly via email and/or book a free breakthrough session with me. It is my intention for you to have a complete understanding of exactly who I am and what I offer so that when you sign up to work with me you can do so with clarity and confidence that I am the right coach for you.
How quickly can I expect results?
That depends on how quickly you can make those inner shifts. Some clients are ready to achieve mindset shifts and take action to cultivate strength, balance and joy in a very short time frame, sometimes even a few weeks, while others have a bit more work to do first. It also depends on your ability to consistently follow through on the action steps and experiments we design together as part of each session.
How can I guarantee myself that I will get more connected to my power and purpose in record time?
Be totally committed to your success. Follow through on your homework between sessions. Understand that this is a process, a proven one, that works if you take action. All my clients who have embraced the process of Strength, Balance & Joy are consistently taking powerful, spiritually aligned action to improve their experience of life in much less time than they would have on their own AND seeing the positive impact of their inner shifts extend to family and work life. .
Melissa, based on everything I’ve read and heard about you, I know you’re the one I want to work with. What are my options for getting started with you?
Congratulations on making a decision for your growth and expansion! I’m happy to work with you to achieve your goals... The best way to work with me is in my one-on-one coaching program.
OK, I’m ready to do this for myself, but I have a couple of additional questions. Can I call you?
Good, sounds like you’re ready to be pulled into the beautiful future that awaits! Yes, if you have a couple of questions, just email me or go ahead and schedule your breakthrough call with me. I’ll be happy to walk you through the different options to see which one will be the very best for you. I can’t wait to see you succeed and am honored to be the one to help you. Let’s get going!
To your freedom, expansion and joy, Melissa
