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The Coaching Programme

You already know what to do. You have known for a while. The distance between knowing and doing is the whole of the work, and it is not closed by learning more.

Built in clinic over more than a decade of practice, by someone trained mentorship-style in classical Chinese herbal medicine, acupuncture, moxibustion, acupressure, energy medicine, Qigong and Ba Zi, and holding a diploma in Traditional Chinese Medicine from the Ontario College of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

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Knowing Is Not Doing

Almost everyone arrives already informed. They have read the books, they know that sleep matters and that the phone at midnight is not helping, and they can tell you exactly what they ought to be doing differently.

None of that is the problem. The problem is that the knowing sits in one place and the living happens in another, and nothing crosses between them without something to carry it. More information does not carry it. Another course does not carry it. Being watched, week after week, by someone who notices when you quietly drop something. That carries it.

That is what this is. Not a curriculum you consume. A structure you are held inside of, for twelve weeks, while you actually change something.

Built in Clinic

These twelve areas were not designed at a desk. They came out of clinical practice, from noticing the same thing over and over: whatever someone came in for, the basics underneath it were the part that had come loose.

So the programme covers twelve areas rather than specialising in one. Not because more is better, but because that is where the trouble actually was.

The Twelve

One at a time, in order. Each builds on the ground the last one laid.

  1. 01

    Goal Setting

    What you are actually aiming at, stated plainly

  2. 02

    Mindset

    The story running underneath the behaviour

  3. 03

    Morning Routine

    How the first hour sets the shape of the day

  4. 04

    Sleep

    The organ clock, and why timing matters as much as hours

  5. 05

    Diet

    Food as it is understood in the Chinese tradition

  6. 06

    Movement

    Enough to circulate, not so much that it costs you

  7. 07

    Stress

    What it does to the system, and where it lands first

  8. 08

    Meditation

    A practice you will keep, not the one you admire

  9. 09

    Environment

    The room you are in is doing something to you

  10. 10

    Relationships

    Where your energy goes without being asked

  11. 11

    Fun & Personal Care

    The part that gets cut first and costs the most

  12. 12

    Integration

    Making it hold once the twelve weeks end

Whether This Is For You

It is

  • If you have had a reading and something in it landed, and you want to actually do something about it.
  • If you keep starting and keep stopping, and you have run out of theories as to why.
  • If you hold space for other people and there is not much left over for you.

It is not

  • Medical care, or a substitute for it. This is education and coaching, not a clinical service.
  • A course you watch. If you want the material to work through alone, say so on the call and you will be pointed at something better suited.
  • Quick. It is twelve weeks because twelve weeks is roughly how long it takes for something to stop needing willpower.

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Thirty minutes, no charge. You describe what is actually going on; Maria says whether this is the right thing for it, and what it costs. If it is not the right thing, she will say so. That happens often enough to be worth promising.

Cohorts begin on fixed dates and run twelve weeks. If you have had a reading in the last thirty days, its full cost comes off the programme.

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