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"Sharon’s work helps me feel peaceful and centered when I’ve spun into overwhelm or confusion. Her ability to listen deeply and provide insightful guidance has helped me gain freedom from “that voice” in my head.
I value Sharon’s compassionate approach and I feel the results of her work tangibly even though I live over 500 miles away.
Our powerful sessions are essential to my wellness and spiritual growth."
Deborah Imershein,
Editor, Career Coach and Teacher
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If you are spending your days with some level of physical or emotional pain, you are most likely in a state of contraction that keeps you from feeling joy and contentment. You lose patience easily. You have trouble feeling your connection with others, or having a sense of true connection with your Source.
You figure if there’s not anything really wrong – after all, you’re pretty high functioning, you get to the office every day, make sure to get in a walk now and then, and eat your veggies – you should just be able to keep on keeping on, right?
You wonder why you're having such a hard time finding and maintaining some sense of balance.
And if you think ‘being in balance’ means feeling balanced all of the time that might be part of the problem! It is more a matter of being able to respond to the ups and downs of life, not trying to avoid or ignore the difficulties but developing a resilience that allows you to flow more gracefully with all of it.
- First of all, real change happens best when you relax fully into a space of time where there is nothing to focus on but yourself. The very act of putting aside time for self-care begins to take some of the pressure off and allows a sense of spaciousness to come in. You don’t necessarily need to set aside hours each day – sometimes just a few well-guided moments can shift you into a different state of mind.
Second, you need to learn new ways to be in your body. As you begin to understand how stress affects the physical as well as emotional body, you develop an ability to approach your discomforts with an awareness that in itself is often healing. How you respond to pain and upset affects your ability to actually feel less discomfort.
Third, though far from last, it’s nearly impossible to do all of this alone. It’s simply too lonely – too isolating – too damned hard! Just as we cannot be expected to be all things to all people, we also can’t expect to do everything for ourselves all of the time.
The great paradox is that, while you need to tend to your own self-care, you also gather immeasurable value in having companionship, safe harbor and trusted support to relax into as you develop new skills and ways of being.
When you put all the pieces of the puzzle together – incorporating simple, effective self-care techniques; learning how to respond differently to stress, illness, and other factors that hamper you; having a trusted guide to help you access deeper levels of release and awareness – you will have a better chance of living a life of authenticity, depth and balance.
Intrigued but still not sure? Then check out the biggest challenge of self-care.
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