Success Stories


Rob P. -- Doctoral Student and Priest

The changes in my life since we first began our coaching sessions have been nothing short of monumental. I entered into a weight management program and have, to date, lost over 16 pounds, dropped my cholesterol down to 137 (from 196), lowered my blood pressure back to normal, and regulated my pulse rate. I approach each day with an enlivened spirit and a greater sense of physical well being.

For many, this would have been enough. And ironically, for me, I had originally anticipated that my weight loss would be the only real goal of our time together. However, I have also found that through our sessions, I have dealt with issues that pervade my entire life and lifestyle. I have radically changed my living environment so that I can actually call it “home,” so that it is now a place of refuge and peace, and not simply the place where I sleep. I have realized that I control the choices I make in my life and, with that control, have come a revision and a reformulation of what I really value and wish to maintain in my life. My spiritual life has blossomed in a way that I never anticipated—I am actually meditating every day! I have found myself slowly moving back into the community in which I live and finding acceptance, peace, and friendship. More than anything, you have helped me realize that I am not alone. Your simple presence in the midst of all these changes in my life has been a blessing and a great comfort.

I remember telling my spiritual director last month that I wanted to reclaim my life. I feel that the greatest impact of my coaching sessions has been that reclamation. I own my life again. The sense of empowerment that I have from that is beyond words and what makes it even better is that I cannot even envision myself going back to the way it was. In the past, I would go through peaks and valleys of behavioral adjustment, the normal highs and lows of emotional and spiritual immaturity. I truly feel that now I have reached a different plateau, if you will. That my thought processes, the way I react to the world, the manner in which I make decisions has radically changed. The world does not happen to me anymore, I act in the world. If I learn nothing else, in the rest of our time together that one statement would be enough.

Words fail me now. Perhaps the best impact “statement” is without words at all. Just looking at myself, looking at what I have become, looking at the choices I now make—that is my impact statement.