"... and then we wake up and realise we have been living a life that has been created for us by other people. Following that path seemed like the only option. But if we really want to be happy we must learn to listen to what actually gives us joy, find our natural enthusiasm to live our lives authentically and fully..."

What is spiritual life coaching?

The Spiritual Life Coaching I offer is open to everyone; Beginners just learning concepts like karma or are beginning to work practically with their chosen faith in their daily life. Established spiritual practitioners who are now finding they feel less connected to their inner- knowing and chosen faith. Even if you are the kind of practitioner who mainly learns and grows on your own in a relatively normal life. Spiritual Life Coaching is the opportunity you need to really ground yourself, reassess your life up to now, and give yourself space to imagine a future you are excited about and inspired to lead.

What does a Spiritual Life Coach do?

A Spiritual life coach is a stabilising guide, a steady companion who keeps you focused on your growth. Who reminds you are already equipped and shows you how to see that. A coach holds a space for you so you can access your own, often covered over, uniqueness and potential. But more than that, a coach is there to remind you that you deserve a fulfilling life. You work together to uncover what that means for you.

Spiritual Life Coaching is all about you, finding out what really lights you up and motivates you.

Regardless of your level of experience in the spiritual life the solutions to your path’s biggest challenges are already within you. In this fast paced life we lose the ability to hear those solutions. We feel disconnected, lonely or lost because we're separated from the unlimited reservoir of inspiration and inner knowing that all human beings posses.

All we need is a realignment with who we are at our core. This realignment shifts our experience of life as unfulfilling and exhausting and helps us remember we really are.

Coaching sessions are a deliberate break in your busy life where you have a dedicated person there to hold space for you, keep you focused and guide you back to the things that bring meaning to your life. Coaching sessions simply bring you back to your essence, what motivates you, what make this life worth living for you.

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Over the time I have known Andrea her gentle, confident and amazingly insightful guidance has helped me to make some of my best decisions. She is always a reassuring and gentle presence.

She helps me make sense of my difficult situations, with her meaningful words, in the most wonderful way using her own experiences and vast knowledge to empathise and connect. Always making me feel heard and understood. Thank you for all your help Andrea

Rowan Foley

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Andrea Ballance

Andrea's hard won spiritual insights and spiritual experience are a profound well for you to tap, and the best basis for Andrea to coach from. She has a natural ability to help people see through confusion and get to the essence of the matter. In fact the name she was given when she was ordained as a Buddhist nun was, Denyi. A Tibetan name meaning Essence of Bliss.

The Dictionary meaning of 'Spiritual'

According to the Oxford Dictionary, "spiritual" means relating to the human spirit rather than the physical body, often connected to religious beliefs, signifying a connection to something beyond the material world, and encompassing concepts like inner character, meaning, and personal growth; essentially, it refers to the non-physical aspects of life and one's inner self.

Andrea hosts her own podcast called,

Spiritual Shenanigans.

In this podcast she explores topics like the dark night of the soul, the real consequences of practicing a spiritual path in these modern times and she shares her own own experiences on the spiritual path.

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Spiritual Shenanigans

Podcast

The Spiritual Shenanigans Podcast is now live; giving a Ballanced guide to modern spirituality. In this podcast Andrea talks about her experience as a Buddhist nun and her experience of living in a spiritual community. She will also look at social media spirituality and explain some spiritual concepts from her point of view and experience.

It is a podcast for beginners on the spiritual path, people currently knee deep in it, and those who have become disillusioned along the way.

Special shout out to Dan Ballance for the podcasts awesome music.

To hear more of Dan find him here on Soundcloud.

EPISODE 1 Welcome to my podcast!

Fibromyalgia and other long-term pain conditions

I live with and therefore continuously have to manage Fibromyalgia. I have realised after years of living with this condition that I find it easier to deal with the physical ramifications of the condition than with the inevitable emotional turmoil that comes with it.

There are many levels of emotional pain with Fibromyalgia; the loneliness of experiencing physical pain, the frustration of not being as able as you once were, the worry that you are unreliable and likely to let people down, the feeling you have to dance the light fantastic between having a life and dealing with flares.

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Self- reflection Tools

Through-out my life I have found using Oracle and Tarot an invaluable sound-boarding tool. This tool has helped me many times to get clear on what the questions I need to ask are and what exactly I am struggling with. This process was invaluable in helping me to clarify my thoughts about any difficult situation. Through the written meanings of the cards I was able to access an alternative view point or way of understanding my situation. Often making my current perceived problem something I could take action on, see as a learning experience or change.

Through reading for others I came to realise that not everyone has this skill of translating a card decks advice and making it applicable to them. I have given many, many helpful, insight producing readings in my time but I am interested in teaching people how to do it for themselves. Now I offer a workshop which helps people to make their own connection with this tool.

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Here is an example of a self-reflection tool

Take a screenshot and see which affirmation is snapped for you. As you read the affirmation watch how you react to the words. There is gold in your first reactions. Do you connect with the words? Are they appropriate to you in the moment? Could they relate to a running background theme? The insights are all inside you.

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Creating our own self-reflection tools.

As we learn our own unique inner voices language it can help to create you own personal sound-boarding tools. These can be anything from cards you make with images you have a connection with to lollipop sticks with one word reminders on them.

These tools work perfectly bought straight out of a shop, but a tool you create yourself will naturally have more hidden information in each symbol or word. Sometimes all you need is that one word, one picture to inspire you into thinking in a different way.

I have found my own, personal to me, unique to me sound boarding tool incredibly helpful in navigating life's more difficult situations.

Free SLC mini course

In keeping with the mission statement of Ballance Spiritual Coaching, I offer a FREE on-line or in person, coaching session. By offering this free session my aim is to give a high quality tailored session to anyone who wants one. This keeps my practice as close to my spiritual values as possible and ensures that money does not get in the way of anyone wanting to learn these skills.

…the mission of this coaching practice is to help everyone, regardless of their current life situation. We all, regardless of how hard we try, experience periods in life where we are short on cash, experiencing high demand lives and simultaneously in real need of some outside support…

...It is important to remember a coaching session is NOT a therapy session. It is simply an hour or more if needed where you can stop, breathe and get back in touch with yourself by gently taking your focus off of the world around you and shifting it on to yourself. Remembering who you are inside the moment, right now.

The free session I offer is a condensed taster of what I would normally cover over four weeks.

The session will include:

A welcome chat where we can refer back to your questionnaire and you can ask any questions you need to.
A chance to enjoy a five minute breathing meditation. We can do this guided by me or if you are an old hand I will leave you to settle yourself.
When you are calm and more in the moment we will start with an exercise that is based around you uncovering your core values.
We will then talk about structuring your current tasks and responsibilities. In brief; sorting into categories like urgency, importance and necessity. Investigating, as we sort, how these tasks would be experienced by you if they were informed by your own value goals.
The next tool we will use is a visualisation technique where I will ask you to imagine yourself at a point in the future. You imagine yourself fully living according to your inner values in a totally successful way. Even if you can’t believe you could be in that mental state now. I will encourage you to imagine your most authentic and inspired version of yourself succeeding and feeling nourished by your daily experience.
From here we will discuss tips and tricks to help you stay on track to uncover that wonderful person. Tips on how to start your day in the right way for you, how to navigate less positive people, how to check yourself when old thought patterns and behaviours try to rise.
In the last part of the session I will guide a meditation that will start with you remembering your future self, really making it feel real, and then coming back into the moment, holding the energy of your future self. In that moment you will be totally embodying yourself. Not the self you have been taught, but your natural inspired self.
Once you are ready you would be welcome to ask me any questions you have and we can discuss if you would like any handouts to help you remember what you experienced.

*Please note the free session still require the client paperwork to be done; a questionnaire on where you are in your life, a client contract, an email to send any requested handouts to and the meeting links for online sessions. I need these so I can tailor the session to your life's unique path, your current situation and hopefully give you some tools to take forward into your life.

To book this unique and bespoke to you, free session, please use the contact form

or email me: coachballance@ gmail.com.

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