The word ‘woo’, which sounds like a truncated version of that sci-fi sound the theremin makes on the soundtrack of a ’50s horror flick, is the tongue-in-cheek way service providers describe the metaphysical nature of their practices.
After much resistance, I see that my coaching practice has been leaning in that direction for a while now.
The seeds of ‘woo’ were planted about eight years ago. My business coach introduced me to a modality called Theta healing: Think Reiki for the mind. Shortly after my first Theta session, I experienced a massive breakthrough in my business which I just couldn’t get off the ground at the time.
One week following that healing session, (which seemed to uncover some ancient, reincarnational wounds), I experienced a flood of clients. Within a couple of months my practice was full for the first time. Subsequently, I delved into Theta Healing and studied to become qualified as a practitioner so that I could add that skill to my coaching toolbox.
Later, a Sounds True podcast featuring professional tarot reader Kate Van Horn opened the door to the Tarot. The pull, if you’ll pardon the pun, had also been there for a while. Some may recall a video series I did a few years back during quarantine called ‘Covid Coping with Coach Rahti’ (I do like alliteration).
Twice, then once a week as the pandemic lifted, I would pull a card from an oracle deck gifted to me by Sharon Guskin 7 years ago. It was ‘The Kabbalah Deck,’ comprised of the 26 Hebrew letters and the 10 Sephira of the Tree of Life. Much like the Tarot’s Major and Minor Arcana, this deck is also in two parts. I would pull a card before each livestream and riff on the meaning the Hebrew letter or Sephira conveyed. I never got fluent with the readings, and had to stay tied to the accompanying guidebook because I couldn’t discern any system that would allow me to learn each individual card. (And that was only 36 cards, as opposed to the seventy-eight in Tarot.)
Fast-forward a few years later. That podcast about Tarot opened a door to adding yet an additional tool to my repetoire, and Katherine Van Horn’s book gave me a driver’s manual for interpreting the cards without memorization.
As my clients with ADHD know, attention follows interest and what you pay attention to grows. Until now I haven’t seen a path to folding these two metaphysical modalities into my coaching practice, but that’s where my attention has been lately.
So here I am, beginning a new cycle in my business, wherein I am endeavoring to meld my expertise as an ADHD career coach with a little bit of healing and mysticism in the service of igniting your power and intuition.
And what better time to do that than at the top of 2025, the year of the Hermit.
Please let me know what you think in the comments.
