Emotionally Supportive Lifestyle Consultation When You Need It

In whatever way you may have been feeling “different” from others, your feelings are encouraging you to explore issues and amplify your own inner voice as a source of guidance as you navigate through these turbulent times of cultural transformation.  I can help you to explore, listen and navigate more productively than many others can simply because, for many years, I’ve been in your shoes exploring along a journey comparable to yours.  It is likely that we share qualities like sensitivity, empathy and compassion as well as a natural craving to experience greater freedom, authenticity and love, among other of life’s most valuable equalities. Talking heart to heart with me will help you to experience not feeling as alone on your journey as you may have privately felt.  It may also help you to listen to the guidance of your inner voice as we combine our listening skills.  By sharing with me, you’ll amplify your inner voice and come to trust it with greater confidence.

If you desire to gain the advantage of wisdom drawn from others and from within yourself, let’s talk so that we can listen together to the wisdom of the ages.  Cross-generational sharing of life offers an amazingly powerful experience for all who participate!  If you live by the Golden Rule, our conversations will be all the more amazing because of the common ground we already share.  The same is true if you are often an optimistic idealist who believes the best about others. IT IS LIKELY THAT THE WAYS YOU FEEL “DIFFERENT” REFLECT EXCEPTIONAL QUALITIES AS A CARING PERSON THAT ARE WORTH CULTIVATING.

I invite you to engage in heart-to-heart conversations with me because heart-to-heart experiences are holistically healthy and yet all too rare in the modern high-tech culture we’re immersed in.  You may not even realize how valuable heart-to-heart interactions are and how much you hunger for more of them.  Just as fish may not be aware of the water in which they are swimming, we tend to not be aware of the culture in which we live until someone helps us to develop our awareness and then discover how to care for ourselves more competently in light of our growing awareness.  Your peers and mine tend to remain unaware, in a closed-minded state of denial simply because they have too little opportunity to awaken from denial.  They are too busy staying in the swim of things and “going along to get along” to gain awareness of any alternative way of life.

If you are struggling to find satisfactory answers to questions that truly matter to you, your discontent may be a sign that you’re looking for opportunities to trust another person with whom you can honestly and openly feel your emotions and talk heart-to-heart about whatever matters to you.  As you discover the truth about the culture in which you are swimming, you’ll feel less like a fish out of water and more empowered to swim in the direction of your heart’s desires. My invitation to you responds to and honors all of your wholehearted aspirations.

Currently, you may be struggling to swim against the current without realizing how the cross-currents of our disheartening, disrespectful and disintegrating culture are affecting you.  There are powerfully toxic dynamics at work in the violence and exploitation of modern culture that resist your attempts to be the intelligent, thoughtful, gentle, sensitive, compassionate, caring and honorable human being you yearn to be.  You may feel called to ignore your heart’s intuitions (inner voice) and stretch your mind as you strive toward your personal aspirations in education, career and personal life while meeting the expectations of family members and friends and trying to please everyone at the sacrifice of your own health and happiness.

You may also be stretched financially as you do your best not to be a burden on others and/or help others to also make their way in life.  These and other challenges are natural to a caring human being like yourself.  One of their risks is emotional fatigue, a gradual drift into low energy states and into escapist behaviors common in our culture that, in the long run, typically prove counter-productive. The Golden Rule is operative in your life if you’ll allow it to be.  You’re not called to ignore your heart and soldier on relentlessly at the sacrifice of your own long-term well-being.  One way of allowing refreshing energy to flow back into you while you continue to strive and care about others is to talk with me and discover by experience what’s gone missing in your life.  Some have called it the “missing link.”  Our talks will help you find and experience the link your heart seeks to reconnect with.  I’ll help you to find others with whom to share this heartfelt experience too.

What might you gain from talking with me?

• Enhanced clarity in your own thinking and decision-making
• Increased self-confidence, self-understanding and self-appreciation
• Expanded opportunities to share yourself with others as loved ones
• Insights into some of your most pressing questions
• Amazing answers that your heart hoped might be true but no one confirmed for you
• Balance you need to live on the creative cutting edge of a culture undergoing radical transformation
• Opportunities for co-creating collaborative enterprises that others may desire to join
• Relief from emotions that are more readily resolved when shared caringly

Under other tabs on the menu bar, you’ll find more to read.  I leave it up to you to read about whatever topics interest you.  I tend to write a lot.  Please do not misunderstand why I do.  I do not write to see my ideas in print as if to flatter my ego.  Nor do I write to flatter your ego.  I write the truth, whether or not it flatters egos, to pay both back and forward what I’ve gained from my experiences and to listen to my own inner voice as it gently reminds me of the truth that set me free of my ego’s fears and all of ego’s games of pride and shame as well as guilt and blame.  Instead of writing a lot, I’d prefer to listen a lot and appreciate your story, your journey and what you’ve been discovering along the way.  It would be my pleasure to listen to you and learn from your experiences as you learn from mine while we both enjoy freedom from our egos’ fears and games.  As the eggshell is to birds, so the ego is to human beings.  It’s time for some of us to emerge beyond the shell of our egos and enjoy being “birds of a feather who flock together.”

Wisdom is not the exclusive domain of old people.  People of all ages are growing in wisdom simply because we are having wide-ranging experiences that bridge diverse cultures and press us to probe beneath appearances as we take the risk of reaching out to one another and remain involved with issues of justice, liberty and equality for all.  We prefer to remain alert and observant as well as to mature wisely and safely while we explore.  The minds of many young adults are expanding at an amazing rate – often far beyond the reaches of the minds of older generations.  I invite you to call on me as a resource to confirm that your perspective on life has value and that the way you want to live your life is not “wrong” or different in some way that should be dismissed or resisted.  The traditions of our current society resist changes that we need to encourage instead of resist.  Your presence and your value among us may well be one of the gifts we need to welcome. If so, please look upon me as part of the welcoming committee for you!

“I Can’t Get No Satisfaction” – But You Can

In one of their songs, the Rolling Stones lamented, “I can’t get no satisfaction.”  But you can!  Your capacity to listen, explore and discover will set you free to gain all the satisfaction your heart desires. These capacities may be elements of your life-orientation that set you apart from others and cause you to feel “different.”  Whatever your current circumstances may be in life, I will support you in making and carrying out sound decisions about affirming your personal value, improving the quality and fruitfulness of your performance (in whatever field or fields may interest you — traditional, nontraditional or a blend of both) and enriching your whole life with deeper, lasting satisfaction.  However you may feel challenged (even burdened) by life, I can help you to navigate through life with life-enhancing satisfaction and gain wisdom from your challenges too.  It is said, “When the student is ready, the teacher will come.”  Perhaps this is our opportunity to discover more of the student/teacher in each of us.

If you want to consult with me to see how I might help you find relief from stress and discover more about life, contact me at your convenience at sent2art@gmail.com. Maybe it’s time to move forward more productively even when you still feel frustrated and wonder if it’s possible.  Please don’t let feelings of frustration, futility, inadequacy, insecurity, powerlessness, hopelessness or other negative emotions that you may have encountered in the past or are encountering now dictate your future.  There are more promising possibilities awaiting you beyond fears of failure, the unknown, shame, guilt or any other fears that can hold you back and down.

If you make good use of your investment in our time together, it’s more probable that you’ll succeed in developing a richly rewarding life on multiple fronts simultaneously.  In fact, what you learn from your investment in talking heart to heart with me will help you throughout your life, not just while you are swimming in our cultural waters now but also when you tackle later challenges of living with high hopes and idealistic goals.  The benefits include gaining insight and understanding about love and how to increase the flow of love into your life!  Once you master the art of valuing, validating and loving yourself, you’ll discover that you are a natural at sharing love with others too.  Love is the healthy, organic, sustainable environment within which we all can thrive and be happy together naturally.  It is the essence of the energy that will cleanse the waters of our culture and invigorate us to co-create the alternative culture in which our hearts yearn mightily to swim.

I am available in person within the Chicago metropolitan area.  Wherever you are, if you want to consult with me by video cam, let’s see what options we have.  If you want to read more about my thinking, click on whatever topic on the menu bar catches your attention.

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