Spiritual Coaching and Genuine Self Esteem

All too often, we derive our feelings and beliefs about ourselves from artificial sources… The clothes or shoes we wear, the music we listen to, the car we drive, etc., instead of seeking to understand ourselves more deeply and completely.

Our identity and our self esteem comes from a spiritual, radiant, loving source many of us call God. In Western Scriptures, we (humankind) were made in the image and likeness of God, so it is from that supernal source that we can gain our strength, our confidence and our deepest sense of self esteem. Coaching from this interfaith spiritual viewpoint creates greater opportunities to realize this truth and to transform our lives. From working cooperatively with a spiritual coach, you can discover hidden talents, develop new skills, and find more purpose and fulfillment because we will be working from a larger and deeper spiritual source…

In popular inspirational writings, no quote has summed up this capacity or this potential for discovering and affirming one’s spiritual identity better than the quote from Marion Williamson (and often ascribed to Nelson Mandela) where she declares our need to claim our spiritual understanding, and the sources of our rightful self esteem:

Our Deepest Fear

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”