Barbara McDowall
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Awareness, Change, Transformation Expert

Barbara McDowall Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Spiritual teaching, spiritiual life coaching, relationships, personal responsibility, awareness, change, transformation, authenticity, consciousness
- Career Focus
- Speaker, writer, facilitator, spiritual teacher, spiritual life coach, relationships, awareness, change, transformation, values
- Affiliation
- The New Seminary, Coaches Training Institute
Barbara McDowall is a contemporary spiritual teacher, mentor/coach and officiant. Through her company, Authentic Lives (www.AuthenticLives.com) she offers a doula for the dying service, circles and workshops, and a marriage preparation course, Conscious Relationships, Healthy Marriages. Barbara is passionate about is the transformation of suffering through awareness and conscious living. This transformation begins at the personal level when we learn to love and approve of ourselves. Ideally, it takes place at any stage of life including the very last one ~ at death. The sooner we do the work, the sooner our lives can become more fulfilling and meaningful.
Barbara is a graduate of the New Seminary (interfaith) and is a Coaches Training Institute (CTI)-trained life coach. She has a background in psychology as well as Level II and III Etheric Healing and Level I Quantum Touch ®
Barbara lives and works in Guelph, Canada and is available for appointments by phone or in person. She can be reached at 519-767-5697, barbara@AuthenticLives.com or at 143 Kingsmill Ave., Guelph, Ontario N1E 5W1
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Letting Go of Ego Raises Awareness of Impact
How aware are you of your impact on the people in your world and the world around you? To do no harm (in thought, word, action) is one of the tenets of a number of faith. For that to happen means we must be paying attention and aware, as often as possible, of what those thoughts, words and ...
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Step Outside Your Faith Comfort Zone
“Never instead of…always in addition to” reflects what, to me, lies at the heart of the interfaith movement. Interfaith is a “spiritual philosophy that respects and fully accepts, the wisdom contained in the worlds religions.” The understanding of the truth contained in those religions brings ...
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Dealing with Death Openly
A lot of the conversations I am having right now revolve around death and dying. This is of great interest to me because it is a subject near and dear. There is something quite liberating when we explore this subject in more depth. Over the years, I have become increasingly aware of the ...
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Abundance Of Experience Not Determined By Money
(First Appeared in the Guelph Mercury) Each one of us is entitled to all the abundance both in form and experience that is and has always been available to us. Imagine a storehouse of abundance with your name on it. Everyone on the planet has such a storehouse overflowing (running over) with ...
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Barbara McDowall
...we often lack the ability to empathize with the pain of the 'other'
community. It is all too easy to see 'our' pain as exclusive, and to
become blind to the suffering of the community on the other side of a
political divide.
...Gareth Higgins