For much of my life, I was searching. Like many people, I believed happiness, peace, and fulfillment could be found through achievement, success, relationships, knowledge, or spiritual attainment. I spent years climbing the corporate ladder, building businesses, studying personal development, psychology, healing, and spirituality, always seeking a deeper understanding of life and of myself.

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Life eventually brought me to a crossroads.

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A series of profound losses and challenges stripped away many of the things I had built my identity around. Physical injuries, financial loss, the end of important relationships, and a deep period of suffering became an invitation to look inward and ask questions that could no longer be ignored.

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That journey led me around the world and into the study and practice of meditation, yoga, dreamwork, coaching, shamanism, somatic healing, and the wisdom traditions of many cultures. Along the way, I spent years working with dreams, participating in ceremonies, studying consciousness, and learning from teachers, indigenous elders, coaches, and mystics who generously shared what they had discovered.

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What began as a search for healing gradually became a search for truth and eventually, even the search itself came to an end.

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In 2022, a near-death experience transformed my understanding of reality and of who I believed myself to be. The years that followed were devoted primarily to silence, integration, contemplation, and wonder. During that time, many of the questions that had guided my life simply dissolved. What remained was a deep love for life, an appreciation for mystery, and a growing recognition that many of the answers people seek are already present within them.

 

The work shared through Altered States emerged from that realization. At its heart, Altered States Coaching is an invitation to remember the wisdom of the body, the intelligence of the heart, the guidance available through dreams, intuition and direct experience, and the harmony and love that exists beyond fear, confusion, and separation.

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​The intention is simple:

To help people know and love themselves, life, and everyone more deeply, to heal through awareness, understanding, and love.

To cultivate harmony within their body, mind, relationships, and lives, and discover that the guidance they seek has been speaking to them all along.

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The support and teaching offered here is not about following another person, belief system, or philosophy. It is about cultivating an intimate relationship with your own heart, soul, and direct experience. The greatest teachers in my life have ultimately been silence, love, and the guidance of my soul which speaks in the language of dreams. Everything shared through Altered States is offered in service to those same teachers.

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BACKGROU ND AND TRAINING​

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• CPC Professional Coach Certification (iPEC)

• 25+ years studying consciousness, psychology, healing, and spirituality

• Dzogchen dream yoga and Jungian dream-informed coaching

• Extensive work with indigenous traditions and Shipibo teachers

• Ceremony facilitation experience

• 22 Years as a Silicon Valley Corporate Executive

• More than two decades of personal practice and study

• Father to two beautiful girls (now women)

 

 

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