I am Irina Almgren. I have been working with personal development for years but only recently allowed myself to consider it as a career path. It took me a long time, lots of inner work, courage and support from my friends to admit to my soul's desires and acknowledge my natural talents and inner abilities. For years I had been setting myself up by pushing myself into a life I never truly wanted but thought was something that would make me happy. My optimism and perseverance helped me to constantly bounce back and move forward no matter what but at some point it struck me: I could move to a new place, I could start new relationships but as long as I was stuck with myself I would be carrying my problems with me between countries and relationships, collecting visa stamps and heart break scars along the way. There was n o T h i n g wrong with the world. I was the source of my own troubles.
The practice of Zen meditation and the news of my father’s cancer made me re-evaluate my ideas of what matterred to me and what I could do to live a life that would become an expression of my values. I asked myself a few simple questions, “If I know that I am going to die but don’t know when, what is the most important thing? What makes me feel alive? How can I live my life in a way that makes it meaningful at least to me?”
I borrowed some money at the bank and enrolled into the coaching training program. Still not quite sure what I was going to make of it, I knew it would evolve around giving and that I wanted to live an authentic life to the best of my ability. I stopped searching for meaning and decided to create it. I gave up looking for ways or people who would make me happy and took responsibility for becoming an expert of my own happiness. I gave myself one single promise:
No more seconhand life
I see coaching as an expression of my boddhisattva work in the world and I am passionate about and commited to helping people transform their lives by becoming more fully-expressed every day. I believe the first step on this journey inside ourselves is to stop the only war we can stop right away and become our own best friend and companion. With all this wonderful freed energy we can make amazing things happen. Why wait another day?
If you would like to contact me drop me an e-mail at irina(at)irinaalmgren.com or catch me online which is probably easier. (You can see the chat badge in the side bar to the right.) I will always be glad to hear from you.
Friend, hope for the Guest while you are alive,
Jump into experience while you are alive!
Think... and think...while you are alive.
What you call "salvation" belongs to the time before
death.
If you don't break your ropes while you're alive,
do you think
ghosts will do it after?
Kabir/ Robert Bly
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