Life Coaching That Includes All of You
“First the mountains were mountains.
Then they were not mountains.
Then they were mountains again.”
If your mountains are crumbling, and help is falling flat or fake,
If there is a gap between what you know and what you seem able to live,
If you are craving a creative life that stands up to your questions and conundrums…
Welcome.
If we’re fortunate, we go through times of fear, “brokenness,” and renavigation,
where the not-yet-familiar beckons us Home to more of ourselves.
We are designed to have a hand in the process.
Liz Wieking is a brilliant coach. Her work is different than anything else I've done. My gifts are starting to emerge on their own, without force. I am immensely grateful.
-- S.B., Human
My Approach
I provide consultation, ongoing coaching, and resources for people who have gone about as far as they can with smarts, relaxation practices, positive affirmations, and other forms of muscling through.
While therapy can spend too long in insight and talking, and coaching can be unrealistic for people who aren’t already superstars (or who are, but are finding that unsatisfying), my practice is marked by:
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Insight that connects dots on a bigger map. (Support for your mind.)
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Skilled formative somatic work. (Support for your body.)
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The ability to go dark and deep and funny, as well as tactical-practical, in one place.
This is not about a technique or theory. It’s about being human.
We are tasked with the enormous adventure of balancing a frontal cortex with a vulnerable body. Our minds need to be met. And so do our bodies, the realities of the world and questions about our soul’s satisfaction over time.
I sit with clients in person or over Zoom (yes, this works over Zoom), and both listen and gently interrupt where your physiology is telling a more personal story.
This bridges the gap between what you know and your lived experience.
You’ve already thought things through. In this work, we sync up with the micromoves lying beneath your bigger moves (and/or struggles to move, relate, relax, etc.)--the moves that really touch you.
Most importantly, this helps us get closer with the movement maker (one’s self).
We include your mind as we restore responsiveness (aka response-ability) from the inside. This is your birthright and design, and it is meant to be lived in the real world.
Here’s to restoring a friendliness, and a one-teamness, with yourself, life, and others.
Maybe healing. Definitely health.
For the song you have inside you, and the one singing.
Liz held a safe space for me to be still and realize how things are for me. I was able to move forward and see things in a more positive way. The session I had with Liz continues to be a source of strength for me.
-- C.M., Human
Coaching Services
Resources
One of my great passions is making this work more accessible. While 1:1 work can’t be “scaled,” my practice is based in our shared physiology. If you have both a body and a brain, you are already doing some version of this work. I offer resources to help people get friendlier with the situation.
Liz’s depth and passionate dedication to the dynamic human journey is flooring. I have never met a coach with quite her intuitive acumen and emotional comprehension. It was as though, together, we were re-writing the blueprints for how information flows through my nervous system.
-- S.W., Human
About Liz
Grace notes, with meat on the bone.
--Iron & Wine
Hi, I’m Liz.
I came to this work myself because I was in a seemingly intractable amount of pain and had a “stubborn” system. You don’t have to have a background like mine, or want a life like mine, to benefit from this work. I coach to help people become the lovers of their own lives.
See My Approach for details.
I grew up in church, as well as therapy, in the Bay Area, California, and now live in a relatively rural part of Illinois. Contrasts like these greatly shape and inform me and my work.
My background and training include a BA in psychology at UC Berkeley, leaving academia due to concerns about what I saw on the inside, a turn toward my preference for real-life application in social work, deep mentorship in years of physiology-based NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), family and systemic constellations work, systems theory, various "alternative" practices, and somatic coaching.
Formative somatic coaching offered me a re-membering of myself I’d not yet experienced--a practice that included the “babes” of the above, but let me release the bathwater and move into a way of living and working that was much more of a fit for me.
I walk with personal and professional experience of a wide variety of the human wounds of separation. I walk with the creative process, and I walk with joy.
Like most who are fortunate enough, I am a lover of nature, song, humans, animals, community-tending, and Art History 101--by which I mean the fact that we are all meant to create and share in community.
I am hard-won close with my parents, I am a mother myself, and I am a friend.
My personal and professional work are linked, and further linked to The Great Work we are all in together.
I am grateful for others living lives that are Real.
“If you open yourself to insight,
you are at one with insight
and you can use it completely.
Open yourself to heaven and earth,
then trust your natural responses;
and everything will fall into place.”
— Lao Tsu
“… but, Lao Tsu, how?”
— Liz Wieking
As someone who has been both a consumer and steward of therapy, sitting with Liz in the coaching space has been one of the most beneficial experiences of my personal journey.
Our work together helped me connect with myself in a way I didn’t know was possible. She is able to strike the balance of being deeply empathetic and supportive while challenging you in a nourishing way.
If you feel called to sit with Liz be warned; answer and your life might never be more you.
-- G.C., Human
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Liz is vibrant and naturally intuitive... If you have the chance to work with her, do it! Her work and who she is are truly one of the great gifts to this world.
-- K.H., Human