Welcome to Passages Life Coaching

Introducing Cindy Faust, MSW

  Cindy is a Professional Life Coach specializing in guiding women through significant stages of life, relationships, career and professional transitions, and life changing health issues. With over 25 years of experience as a licensed clinical social worker, she brings a unique insight and understanding of the challenges that women face when their lives are drastically altered and colored by illness, loss, anxiety, and feelings of not being in control.  As a breast cancer survivor, Cindy brings her own experience and that of hundreds of women whom she has helped in her clinical practice as well as through community wellness and healing arts programs.  She credits her roles as a wife, mother ,and artist for helping her to develop her unique approach to healing and personal fulfillment.  Known for her work in the field of women’s health, Cindy is  also a seasoned and energetic speaker and workshop presenter who has appeared on Good Morning, America and other television and radio programs.  She has  lectured extensively on subjects of mind-body connection, spiritual and emotional well-being, and healing through the creative arts.  Cindy is a dedicated professional who brings insight, expertise, compassion, and passion to the coaching experience.

 To know if coaching is right for you, ask yourself the following questions:

1. Is there a gap between where I am in my life and where I want to be? 
   
2. Am I willing to try new concepts and devote time to creating a higher level of self esteem and performance?
3. Am I ready to move beyond analyzing, complaining, and dreaming and take action?
4. Can I take the time and effort and to invest in myself?
5. Do I want to take action and live my life fully and not just survive?

What is the difference between therapy and coaching?

The primary function of coaching is to create a context in which life and performance enhancement may take place. Coaching assumes that the client is already high functioning and is capable of taking consistent action steps towards their life vision. However, clients with a psychiatric diagnosis can also benefit from coaching if they demonstrate the ability to make ongoing progress toward their coaching goals and they are actively managing any symptoms. Coaching works in the “critical gap” between the present and the envisioned future. In coaching, history is approached only as the map that brought the client to the present.

  The primary function of therapy is to create a context in which healing may take place. Therapy assumes that symptoms or behavioral patterns need to be fixed, that something in the client needs to be healed.  Therapy tends to work in the past to promote emotional healing or resolve psychological pain, or in the present to reduce symptoms or destructive patterns.