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PhilosophyCenter | SOMA Coaching℠

one-on-one specialized and personalized coaching private, confidential, and convenient phone sessions save on double sessions weekend scheduling available no background or training in philosophy needed SOMA Coaching℠ uses philosophical counseling to address a range of physical and emotional symptoms that can arise due to a sensitized or dysregulated nervous system. Note that SOMA Coaching℠ is not therapeutic and makes no thereapeutic claims, nor should it be used to treat any underlying condition that may present the same symptoms or as a substitute for needed medical care from a qualified healthcare provider.		Coach: Philip Golabuk Format: hour-long phone call Requirements: phone and email service Prerequisite: none SOMA Coaching℠ Single • $150 One-hour individual phone session SOMA Coaching℠ Double • $250 Two Single sessions over two consecutive weeks See Terms of Service below before reserving. Session scheduling must be completed within 24 hours. Sessions that have not been scheduled and confirmed within 24 hours are subject to cancellation and refund.

		Are you easily triggered by adversity? Are you suffering from anxiety, chronic fatigue, sleep disturbances, or muscle aches and pains that have no obvious cause? Do you struggle with overeating, doomscrolling, or other compulsive behaviors? If so, you may want to look into a SOMA Coaching℠ session. This remarkable support offering draws upon the ancient wisdom of Stoicism and Taoist philosophy to provide you with tools you can use right away to ease the distressing symptoms of a sensitized or dysregulated nervous system and, over time, restore the mind/body's normal parasympathetic state of openness and ease. This life-changing transition is accomplished through the use of proven practices of detachment, allowing, and witnessing along with specific techniques that can "calm the storms" of chronic anxiety, worry, doom-thinking, burnout, and a host of somatic symptoms they can cause, restoring parasympathetic balance so you can begin living a normal life again. Common signs of a sensitized or dysregulated nervous system are: chronic anxiety morning anxiety with no apparent cause racing thoughts emotional eating/overeating or other compulsive behaviors easily triggered or overreactive chronic fatigue or "burnout" sleep issues (getting to sleep or staying asleep) brain fog or difficulty concentrating unexplained chronic muscle aches and pains social isolation and withdrawal from life headaches or migraine events digestive upset autoimmune disorders idiopathic fast heart (tachycardia) or palpitations Topics typically covered during a SOMA Coaching℠ session include: understanding what's happening when the nervous system has become sensitized or dysregulated dealing with the cause rather than the symptoms the steadying practice of "square breathing" using awareness and choice to regulate mind-body seeing through the "blue meanies" of doom thinking the transformational power of accepting uncertainty anchoring with a personal "switch word" mantra the Taoist practice of actionless action (wu wei) doing one thing at a time why allowing (nonresistance) is essential retraining the distressed brain and nervous system This offering is designed expressly to help those struggling with the many, disruptive, and often intense symptoms of a sensitized or dysregulated nervous system to transcend the chronic sense of urgency, anxiety, and powerlessness in those cases where the client has confirmed or strongly suspects no other underlying cause. SOMA Coaching℠ is most likely to be effective in cases where such causes have been ruled out by a qualified healthcare provider. While SOMA Coaching℠ cannot diagnose or treat medical conditions that may produce or aggravate such symptoms, there is a growing body of evidence that points to dysregulation of the nervous system as a condition in itself that can make living a normal life all but impossible. Addressing this condition directly rather than chasing its symptoms can restore a sense of ease, agency, and optimism provided the client is willing to take responsibility for his or her distress and put the instruction into daily practice.

		SOMA Coaching℠ delivers far-reaching benefits for living a grounded and creative life including: proven support in helping the dysregulated nervous system return to a regulated state freedom from the mind's fear-based projections experience of the deep sense of agency that arises when we learn to stop reacting and resisting improvements in peace of mind, relationships, sleep, digestion, and all areas that are adversely affected by a dysregulated nervous system

		Session Scheduling Session scheduling must be completed within 24 hours. Scheduling is not complete until it is confirmed by PhilosophyCenter. Sessions that have not been scheduled and confirmed within 24 hours are subject to cancellation and refund. No session can be scheduled until it is reserved. Phoning In The client should ring the PhilosophyCenter Direct Access Line promptly at the scheduled time and arrange to be in a place where ambient noise and interruptions can be kept at a minimum for the duration of the call. Note that the instructor will wait ten minutes for the client to arrive on the call, failing which the session for that day will be cancelled and counted as missed without notice. Cancelled or Missed Calls If the client needs to cancel a scheduled call, at least 24 hours notice is required. In cases where such notice is provided, the cancelled call will be made up the following week. If the client misses the rescheduled call or fails to show up for a call without notice for any reason, the missed call cannot be made up and is forfeited. By reserving a session, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to these Terms of Service and all applicable policies listed in the Policies section of this website. We adhere to the strictest internal standards of privacy and confidentiality, and will not disclose client identity, information, or session details to any third party.

		Philip Golabuk is an internationally acclaimed author and educator. After completing his undergraduate and graduate degrees in philosophy at the University of Florida with special studies in existentialism, theory of knowledge, and phenomenology, he taught philosophy at the college level and as part of a community outreach program to inmates in jail and prison. He has written several books in applied philosophy that were published in the U.S. and overseas in translation by national and international publishers including Harper & Row and Ernst Kabel Verlag and reviewed in The Washington Post and Harper's Magazine. In 1993, he founded PhilosophyCenter, subsequently developing a number of courses in practical philosophy as well as leading-edge philosophical facilitating, counseling, and coaching models and methods. Philip is a member of the National Philosophical Counseling Association. He is also an accomplished guitarist, ballet dancer, and fine artist, proving that there are philosophers who actually can do things.

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