Maia Berens

Maia Berens Quick Facts

I love to coach and help people uncover their talents and gifts. It’s like getting to live my much loved pastime every day. My favorite hobby for years now is to watch people grow.

My own life experience has taught me that once people pick up their courage and deal with their emotional baggage, the mistaken beliefs they have  made about themselves become conscious. Then they are able to find their Real Self – the one they were born to be. The experience with and knowledge of my participation in such profound transformation brings me breathtaking fulfillment.

I also love to teach. Teaching others how to coach is like doing my favorite leisure pursuit – with a cherry on top.

So I am now dedicating my time to training and supporting potential coaches. How I do this is to coach them through YOU University - giving them the transformative experience - and at the same time teach them how to  coach so they learn how to do the same with their clients.

Since  YOU University is about your uniqueness, I don’t try to make you another version of me. I want you to be the fabulous gift to Planet Earth that you came here to be.

Maia - you've helped give us all a leg up on the "love yourself" graph. Your gift is to show by example. We're all learning by listening to you and your team and now we pay it forward. It's a beautiful system - many thanks. oxox
Elaine Spitz

• I live my personal and spiritual growth.
• Life experience = learning experience and growth opportunities.
• I know we are spiritual and human at the same time.
• I know we are here for a human experience.
• I know we are here to learn and grow - if that’s what we choose to do.

About your issues,  I suggest: Let’s find a higher perspective or let’s get to the other side of it. Let’s not let it run your life any longer.

I went from victimhood rooted in childhood sexual abuse to an early unsuccessful marriage – to creating a long lasting, nurturing marriage with my current husband of 24 years. (Married twice? actually three times.) I chose my first husband based on being afraid no one else would want me rather than from seeing whether we were a good match or what I really wanted in a partner. Not everybody has to leave their marriage to have the love of their life but I did.

It took years to see my situation clearly enough so that I could give myself permission to say it was the right thing to have done. It wasn’t that I hadn’t tried hard enough or done enough counseling or changed myself in enough ways. It was that he and I had way too much baggage that we brought along with us and had no possible way to deal with it within the relationship. Neither of us had the tools nor even the awareness that tools existed.

It was many years before I was able to take responsibility – without blaming myself or him – for the failure of the marriage. Instead of blame, I look at both of us now with compassion and love for the unaware teens we were when started a life together.

I chose the second marriage, which lasted 6 months, because he was nice to me. In those 6 months I realized I couldn't give any more years to a relationship that was less then what I wanted.

For many years, I was challenged with jobs that mismatched my talents – low pay and sometimes no job at all.

By refocusing and discovering my talents and following steps to improving my self-esteem, I eventually became Founder and Director of the Mars Venus Institute (John Gray – best selling author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus) creating workshops and trainings for hundreds of professional speakers and therapists.

Today I am living my dream. If you have 11 minutes and you want to hear how that happened, click on the arrow below:

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• I dreamed I was capable of helping people improve their lives on a profound level  and in a way that was unique to them. And that's what I get to do every day with my clients, my YOU University team, my Journaling-for-YOU Community and even when I tweet.

• I dreamed that the work I did on myself would free my children from recreating the troubled lives their parents had. Today my four adult children live really good lives. They have functional relationships with their 3 parents,  their children and with each other.

• I dreamed that a relationship with the opposite sex could be a joy and help me learn about loving and giving, sharing, and mutual support. I’ve lived that dream for the past 27 years.

• I dreamed I’d use my teaching talents to help people become what they want to in life. Teach them how to use their gifts and talents to contribute both to the world, and to how they feel about themselves. Some of those people are the very same people who you might choose to coach you through YOU University.

My theory is that our blocks  are there to catch our attention when something needs expanded awareness and transformation. Our job as coaches is to help clients first see that they can change whatever isn’t working in their lives. Then help them figure out how to make those adjustments by teaching them a variety of tools and perspective changes.

Everyone - including me - seems to manifest blocks to their growth. Have you ever noticed that if you don’t seem able or willing to deal with some area of life that’s not working, it tends to “come back” - only bigger? For example, on my life’s path, “relationship with a life’s partner” has been a big way for me to “get” who I am. (I've been in a committed relationship over 70% of my life!)

Valuing myself enough showed up via 3 marriages. Those blocks to a fulfilling and successful relationship have taught me to trust what I want. Also, that I’m worthy of having what I want and that what I want is the best thing for me. If I get what I want, my needs are fulfilled and I make the largest contribution to the planet because of it.

Your blocks might show up by means of a cluttered environment or in your career never working out. In whatever way blocks show up, we teach a whole bunch of ways to make life work again (or for the first time, for that matter).

• Maybe you don’t love or trust yourself enough.
• Maybe you have some issues from the past that need some work.
• Maybe you need to break self-defeating patterns.

If you learn to look at life from certain perspectives, you’ll know what needs to be done and have the tools and support to do it.

To contact Maia, call 310-264-5625 or email maia@allaboutlifecoaching.com.

From Savina Cavallo, YOU University Coach: Recently I was asked what our coaching clients focus on or "how we help". My response was “We help people with lots of things including getting their writing flowing, improving their relationships, or helping them see that they can have what they want in a relationship, improving their self image, self esteem, and expanding their confidence - and many other things.

Those kinds of major changes occur as a result of understanding the inner spiritual messages in the past events of their life and using the growth opportunity in the current events of their lives. As a result, there is an ongoing uncovering of their Real Self. Now they re-learn to believe it’s possible to dream their dreams and they begin to make them happen.”

This past week, two people have asked me about life coaching.

My father's dogs' veterinarian, who asked me what I do for a living, was one of them. I answered almost by default that I'm an administrative professional....then, I remembered, I’m not doing that anymore. I told him I was now building my life coaching business. Here came the question: and what is life coaching?

I realized I didn’t have a skit or a special line to respond with. I started to explain to the doctor in my own words. Oh, he raved that he has a sister that does that or something similar and she's fabulously successful. So, I realized I had done a good job at explaining myself (and he knew what life coaching was, just didn’t know it was called that).

My friend Vivian, who I went out with yesterday for a drink and good conversation, asked me how having a life coach had improved my life. I thought for a few seconds and I started talking away with Vivian. At that instant, I realized how much my life had changed:

* I had worked at facing and finally healing many issues that haunted me for years;
* How my relationships were changing;
* How much happier and at peace I feel;
* I trust myself so much more that I’m following my dream to be a life coach.

Then, I was surprised at how much Maia, my life coach for the past two plus years, has motivated and influenced me towards growth and self-discovery. I spoke with confidence and naturalness.

I'm very happy to be where I am at in life. I'm growing and accepting life and myself; I see each day as a new learning experience. I am confident I am just where I am supposed to be and this is what I am creating. So, are you curious about what I answered the veterinarian? My role as a life coach is to assist my clients in seeing their truth, help them face and resolve the issues from their present or past that are blocking them from creating and living the life they want. I hold them accountable to their commitments; I mirror back to them what they need to see but may not want to see. I empower them. Having a life coach and being a life coach have made an huge difference in my life.

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