Trusting Yes
Personal Philosophy
Deepening our self-awareness and pursuing a path of spiritual growth requires some at times confronting work, but when you bring your whole heart to it, it’s a wild adventure that connects you with greater freedom, aliveness and passion.
I’m continually growing my skills. I know I can help you make the most significant difference in your life when I’m bringing my best self to the game.
The spiritual philosophies I’m most deeply aligned with are Buddhism and Shamanism.
I believe in the importance of yoga and meditation to stay strong, flexible, centered and balanced.
Lots of time spent outdoors connected to the earth is the best way I know of to nurture my soul.
I’m committed to living authentically and calling myself on my shit, it’s a no-fail way to line up with magic.
I have my own coach – it’s one of the most valuable investments I make in myself.
I love helping others tap into who they are when they’re most radiant and alive – and then supporting them as they move confidently forward from that place.
We’re not here to struggle, we’re here to shine.
coaching Perspective
I believe my clients are highly competent, capable beings.
I serve as a source of objectivity, insight, inspiration and accountability.
I’m here to help you get clear. And then get magic.
Our partnership is primarily aimed at getting you attuned with your innate wisdom, creativity and resourcefulness. From there, you become unstoppable.
My focus is to look curiously with you if it seems you are caught up in old patterns; consistently offer straight up, supportive feedback; and ensure you are always connected with your most powerful vision for your life so that you stay aligned with a truly compelling path forward.
Life Experience
I grew up in a violent home, and for 20 years I drank alcohol—lots of it—as a way to shut down the pain and fear that followed me into my adult world. It felt safer to hide than be seen (and exposed to judgment, failure or rejection).
After years of playing small, I came to see that I could survive in the shadows—but I wasn’t free. Choosing “safety” kept reinforcing the belief that there was something to fear.
In my desire to stay under the radar, I was blocking my power, creativity and light.
The trap of self-imposed limitations kept circling back on itself. Eventually I saw that I’d built myself a prison, locked myself in, and handed my ego the key—and it was invested in keeping me there. That sobering insight was a wake-up call, and it launched an inner exploration that revealed the challenging and empowering truth: circumstances don’t create our world—we do.
Life is for us, and unwaveringly supports us every time we show up for it.
I’ve learned volumes about taking power back from fear and being a fierce stand for my light—and I bring that to helping you clearly see where you’re giving your own power away, and the options you have for claiming it back.
Let’s go on a mission to reconnect you with your sense of joy, aliveness and possibility.
Because the shadows? So not where the magic happens…
Career Experience
Working with bodies:
In my late twenties I pursued a career as a massage therapist and spent 10 years working in this field.
Connecting with people in physical pain put me in touch with the importance of paying attention to our bodies (and selves) when we’re overworked or neglected, slowing down to notice when we’re out of balance, and creating the space required for our effective healing.
Working with hearts and souls:
For 13 summers, I worked as a heli-hiking guide.
The job description was leading people through challenging mountain terrain. The joy was inspiring and supporting them as they moved through their perceived physical and psychological limits, and then celebrating together as they overcame fear and stood on top of high mountain peaks that only hours before had seemed insurmountable.
Working with passion – the art of building a successful career:
For over 20 years, I've had the opportunity to pursue one of my truest loves. Painting has always been woven through whatever else I’m doing, and has evolved into a tremendously fulfilling career as a fine artist.
Building a successful art career was one of the greatest and most rewarding learning experiences of my life. It opened the space to fine-tune my skill as an artist, and continually challenged me to hone the entrepreneurial skills required to grow and sustain a worthy business venture.
Most important is who I have become through tapping into the inner courage needed to keep putting myself out there in pursuit of my dream.
It’s given me a vital life designed by me, the sense of soul connection that comes with living on purpose, and the freedom and full permission to keep following my heart where it leads.
A link to my painting life - Liz Wiltzen Fine Art
Listen to a 5 minute interview from a few years back discussing my coaching approach and some key benefits. Still holds true today.
Ideas, Insights and Inspiration
My latest podcast interview is an intriguing exploration into how we navigate risk and flow in our lives, and the power of using curiosity to claim our attention back from the “urgency” of news and the endless seduction of social media.
This is the beast of perfectionism: you chase yourself in circles, certain that 3 more hours spent tweaking that thing that is not yet the very best it can be is how you will be able to relax and trust you’re okay in the world.
The creative process requires you to commit to the liminal space between the known and the not-yet-manifest, and demands you surrender control. But first ~ procrastination.
We live in a culture that supports and encourages the ideal of self-sufficiency, and most of us spend our lives striving for it. It’s a myth, and believing it comes with a steep price.
For all that beauty gives, it invites us to bring something of ourselves in return, because this kind of magic is a two-way street. I like to think of this list as an inside track to wonder...
“Feel the Pressure. Be Brave. Do Your Best”
The thing with fear, or anything that blocks us from being curious, creative and engaged, is it’s almost never about our current experience.
“Sovereignty” - The Mandala Project: #56
When you cultivate a steady, empowered sense of self, you don’t need permission, control or a safety net. You just need to show up and shine.
“Flow” - The Mandala Project: #55
Flow is what you feel when you’re holding a stable, steady centre while the currents of the universe are swirling around you with infinite possibilities of disruption.
“Fracturing” - The Mandala Project: #54
In the fragments of what we wish was unbreakable, we might begin to see the ways that its very solidness needs to fracture to support us in becoming the next thing we’re meant to be.
“Dog Magic” - The Mandala Project: #106
When the door’s open, there’s just no stopping magic from inviting itself on in.
“Gathering” - The Mandala Project: #53
We are born of something bigger and more ancient than whatever form we’re taking in this specific moment. We are fluid, unique expressions engaged in a conversation with the creative power of life rearranging itself.
“Connected” - The Mandala Project: #52
There is a deep relationship and conversation between all things. Essential information is being passed through us and between us, love weaving its way along never-ending currents of aliveness.
“Co-Conspirator” - The Mandala Project: #51
More than any that had come before, this mandala revealed the magic that is activated when we show up for the call.
"Charmed" - The Mandala Project: #50
The flirtation of the natural world is ever-present, enticing you to fall irrevocably under its spell and awaken more deeply to the wonder of being alive.
"Nesting" - The Mandala Project: #49
Nesting is an intimate act of self-care, a manifestation of our deep-seated need for safety, comfort and a place we can call our own.
"Threshold" - The Mandala Project: #48
Sacred thresholds are powerful gateways that connect the ordinary to the extraordinary.
"Continuum" - The Mandala Project: #47
Life—home in the truest sense of the word—is not a stationary place. It is infinitely rearranging itself in relationship with what’s come before, and what is emerging now.
"Enchantment" - The Mandala Project: #46
To enter into enchantment is to allow the spell of mystery to ignite your imagination and to follow the allure of its mesmerizing call.
"Shapeshifter" - The Mandala Project: #45
It’s fascinating what magic emerges when we trust that we inhabit a world where everything is connected, where change and transformation are the only constants, and where the adventure is to keep tuning in to the rhythm and movement of mystery.
"The Magician" - The Mandala Project: #44
You discover treasure when you open to perceive the glimmers of magic all around you, but when you’re willing to deeply enliven it with the wonder of your imagination then its warmth truly finds home in your being.
"Storm Watch" - The Mandala Project: #43
Storms are big, sometimes epically so. But while they seem to disrupt our rhythm and flow, that the very nature of them is vibrant aliveness helps instill trust that the force of them is a necessary, essential part of our lives.
"Grasshopper Divination”
When you hold that which is ‘dead’ with the full presence of your aliveness it lives on, collaborating and co-creating with the Cosmos in new and surprising ways.
"Oracle" - The Mandala Project: #42
Divine communication is always in the space and when we open to perceive it, we are gifted with the wisdom of shimmering things.
"Earth Elder" - The Mandala Project: #41
Grief is becoming intimate with the immovable truth that we’re not meant to hold on to or possess that which we love.
"Descent Into Grief" - The Mandala Project: #97
What if, instead of seeking to transcend pain, we choose to dive deeper, to explore the mystery that lives beneath the surface of it? And to then rise from those depths, changed by what we find there.
"Becoming" - The Mandala Project: #40
Instead of the personality self you know so well, what’s possible when you imagine you’re in a process of becoming something new all the time?
The Mandala Project: #39
When you’re not on the lookout for joy, life can feel like one hard little thing after another—but when you orient to wonder, you can always find evidence of good cheer working its charm in the world.
The Mandala Project: #38
What serious magic is possible when you summon your unique super power and direct it into the world?
The Mandala Project: #37
Offering our unique ‘something’ to the world in the way that only we can might very well be our best and most essential contribution to the tending of the Universe.
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The Mandalas are now available to share as beautifully printed note cards, offering you an evocative way to engage with the mystery and guidance of the natural world.