Welcome to my humble newsletter.

A few housekeeping items:

This is a small operation here - me, myself, and I! As of right now, I totally have the capacity to respond to everyone who writes back.
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Good Listener

This is an excerpt from a blog post by ontological coach Marita Bollici.

Coaching––this weird, late-20th century, post-capitalistic amalgam of consulting and self-help—is, at its heart, neither truly consulting nor self-help. When we move beyond an organizational or personal goal, we see fundamental concerns such as: How does a person become one’s best self? What is a person’s role, “here” (in a local circumstance) or in the larger world? What will a person “do” and to what end? What is the deeper purpose, if any, of that “doing”? What is needed for a person to be healthy, happy, thriving? What is it to have one’s actions and life be in alignment with one’s values and gifts? How does a person work and live well with others? And so on.
These concerns are not unique to coaching—or consulting, or self-help, or therapy, or any other number of practices or disciplines. These concerns are the concerns of being a human being, to be met through whatever modality one is lucky enough to encounter, and heard through whatever voice speaks to the individual.
Artists, philosophers, theologians, scientists, theorists, educators, and more, have been addressing questions like these through all of time. We are just the latest iteration, one potentially useful modality, through which these questions may be addressed.

I love coaching because of its warmth in practice and because I can have so much fun with my clients. I love it because it scratches my puzzle-solving itch. Ultimately, I love that it affords me total authenticity and joy while I help others cultivate the same.

Thank you so much for coming along with me and listening - to my words and my music, and to your own, beautiful Self.

Blessings be upon you,

Anna

Here’s me as a child with a duckling on my head. Stream my music here.