Tag: voice dialogue

SARAH SHIFTS SURVIVAL STRATEGIES

Sarah came of age in a racist family and community. To survive she hide her queer/gay self and became an angry bully…


SPIRIT FAMILY GUIDES LOLA’S ELDER YEARS

[Visual Coaching with Christina Merkley – 2020 #17] Lola is a retired Canadian social worker. The pandemic honed her awareness about vulnerability, loneliness, sibling jealousy and her role as an elder. What started as a Future Self journey morphed into a mediumistic dialogue with deceased parents and grandparents. Who offered perspective on repetitive generational patterns… Read more »


ORPHANS: CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT & VIETNAM

[Visual Coaching with Christina Merkley – 2020 #16]. This was a complex Orphan Rescue session with a retired, female, liberal, boomer, American woman. The present day triggers ranged from riots, masks, social distancing, beaches, lung issues and the euthanasia of her sick pet. And led to inner child and inner adolescent rescues from the Civil… Read more »


MAGIC SABBATICAL POTION

[Visual Coaching with Christina Merkley – COVID Pandemic #15]. Irene teaches at a business college. She’s also highly creative and spiritual. A powerful yet challenging polarity. Watch as her Left Brain (Mind) and Right Brain (Heart) figure out how to collaborate on a sabbatical sideswiped by the Pandemic. Co-creator discerning her own ingredients – no… Read more »


AUSTRALIA-CANADA BRIDGE

Future self, Visual Coaching with Christina Merkley

[Visual Coaching with Christina Merkley – COVID Pandemic #14]. As a Change Management Consultant Pauline was ahead of the curve with working online. Now she wants to work transcontinentally between Australia and Canada. She felt blocked though so came for help. Watch as we discover what’s interfering and her breakthrough. May give you some insights… Read more »


LISTENING FOR THE ESSENTIALS

Visual Coaching, Future Self

[Visual Coaching with Christina Merkley – COVID Pandemic #13]. Sheri is a busy wife, mother and solopreneur with a lot on her plate. Like many her household has changed with everyone home and pulling on bandwidth, literally and figuratively. Trying to balance needs is hard. So is moving her business online as a Graphic Recorder… Read more »


FROM PUSH MODE TO EASE MODE

[Visual Coaching with Christina Merkley – COVID Pandemic #12]. Paula is a Graphic Recorder. Her livelihood is in-person meetings. She’s stressed from pushing herself to figure out new ways. So stressed her hair is falling out. Parallel process along as she rescues her Inner Child from a self imposed labor camp. How thanking her Survival… Read more »


ISABEL SEES THEM FIGHT

[Visual Coaching with Christina Merkley – COVID Pandemic #10]. Isabel’s side hussle in Graphic Facilitation was finally starting to pop … then Covid hit. Now she’s stuck with office dynamics that leave her livid yet strangely teary and silent. What’s up? Through Orphan Rescue we discover deep roots in the domestic violence of her adolescence… Read more »


CREATIVITY SACRIFICED AT 9

[Visual Coaching with Christina Merkley – COVID Pandemic #8]. Like many of us Joan has a love/hate relationship with the pandemic lockdown. We found it through her expansion-constriction polarity. Then we discovered a very important Orphan. Her 9 year old self who valiantly (and tragically) sacrificed her creativity (and other fun kid stuff) to fulfill… Read more »


FLIP IT: OUTER VS INNER PRODUCTIVITY

[Visual Coaching with Christina Merkley – COVID Pandemic #6]. Dorothy’s partner (visual skills student of mine) referred her. So glad she did as I personally found this session extraordinary given the spiritual/soul perspective on leadership, identity, status, aging and mobility issues. Poignant example of struggle between what our personality values versus what our soul does.… Read more »