Spiritual & Wellbeing Coaching

Roots

Traditional coaching or “mentoring” is an informal, common practice within older, more intact cultures. It is carried out by people within a community, perhaps within an extended family, to help (usually younger) people gain the skills they might need on their life path. It can be about people passing on their knowledge and skills to those who might follow in their footsteps, yet not always so.

The phrase “it takes a village to raise a child” indicates the importance of the wider community in raising children into healthy adults. However, within our modern culture, mentoring of the young in these ways is rare and often unsupported and the lack of it can be keenly felt by adults who haven’t experienced it themselves. As more people enter therapy to work on parenting their inner child, the need for coaching, for holding and guidance by a wider community, is becoming apparent.

To become a healthy adult we need community support and healthy connections with others. We benefit from situating ourselves within a context of ancestral traditions, of finding our place within a long heritage. As many of us live in societies which are disconnected from their ancestral heritage, finding our way to re-build some of the essential blocks of a healthy community is essential for the well-being of us all. Coaching is one way of achieving this.

Branches

During shamanic healing, what can arise within a session can take time to process and integrate, and people often benefit from extra holding during this time. For instance, a newly retrieved soul part may be challenging to hear and feel, never-mind welcome home and integrate. It can be a huge process and take time, more than a session of shamanic healing can allow for.

Indeed, much of the healing work happens outside of the sessions, in terms of processing all that has arisen and enabling the deep work to land, to gain the insights and potential for deep growth and healing. Integration is the final step – what happens when we understand and fully accept what has arisen, and when we feel whole and embodied.

Its at this stage that coaching can help you to process what arises within healing sessions, enabling integration to occur more swiftly by being able to talk about what you are going through and feeling supported and held. It can also be offered as a stand-alone practice, helping you to work through a specific life change or healing crisis or supporting you whilst you dive into shadow work, healing ancestral and/ or life patterns.  

Coaching can help you re-discover yourself and help you feel heard and seen as a whole person. It is person centred and designed on an individual basis. We can work to a rough plan or to what arises during each session, based on what is going on for you at the time.

The coaching I offer includes spiritual and shamanic, life and spirit-path, managing being a neurodivergent person in a world not designed for us, working through issues arising during your healing journey, and offering support with living in a challenging world, but this list is not exhaustive. I have separated it into spiritual coaching and wellbeing coaching but please do get in touch to discuss what would work best for you.

Spiritual Coaching

During these sessions, I support people with the development and practice of their spiritual lives. This is usually offered alongside a practice of animism and shamanism, as that is my practice, however I do support people with different spiritual beliefs and practice. It’s worth knowing though that I often channel messages from my spirit guides and offer invitations from my own spiritual practice.

Spiritual coaching can be a one-off check in and, while complementing a programme of shamanic training, can also be beneficial following experiences such as a kundalini awakening, plant medicine, a powerful retreat, spiritual awakening, or experiences such as hallucinations and psychosis. It can work for spiritual emergencies and long term spiritual support.

Wellbeing Coaching

During these sessions, I support people with their individual healing journey, meeting people wherever they are and helping, via reflection, invitation and guidance, to take people further along their healing path.

Sometimes this can involve helping a person work through a specific issue, such as a challenging relationship, period of depression, or recovery from trauma. Sometimes this can involve neurodivergent and lifepath coaching to help support people in finding and accepting who they are, their whole wild soul, whilst diving into strengths as well as limitations and how best to manage these in a sustainable and supportive way.

Fruit

The nature of coaching requires a commitment, to enable us to dive into the issues. Most people come once a month, but some people come more regularly. Coaching is usually offered for a minimum of 3 sessions but in some instances a one-off session is appropriate.

Coaching is usually offered online and includes 1 hour of support during the session plus occasional support and optional holding offered in between via email. During the session I will offer questions and invitations and some of these can then be explored/ held later or via email between sessions.

Coaching is also possible in person for those who are local to me in Devon. In these sessions we will usually meet at the coast, wood or moor to enable nature connection/ ecotherapy whilst diving into the issues that may be present for you. You can book all of these options on the booking page.

In either instance, it best to email me at samara@rewildingthesoul.org before booking, so that we can discuss what would work best for you.