Liz Caraballo
Practical + Visionary Coaching
Personal Development + Career Business Strategy
Photo by EMCaraballoAbout the work.
I started coaching in 2016. The work found me, as many things in my life do.
The catch - I was a mess. I was a fiery, clever, functional, friendly mess of a human. But I could see patterns in human behavior and motives that others couldn’t. And I had a way of telling people what I saw that actually landed.
As a recovering perfectionist, I learned to dissolve the drag of punishing self-talk, suppression, and avoidance with direct insight saturated in warmth and humor. I replaced those maladaptive methods of self-control with practices that allowed me to make peace with my mistakes and harvest some gold from every misstep.
As a single mother and sole entrepreneur, recurring burnout compelled me to search, research, and experiment with hundreds of techniques to finally distill my incessant action into stillness and melt paralysis into flow.
As a second-generation immigrant and child of a brilliant, narcissistic, bipolar parent and a kind, avoidant, alcoholic parent, I learned how to re-parent myself as I moved through the obstacle course of adulthood. I was doing everything I could to break many generations of distortions and fractures that could be seen in my habits and perception.
My ability to absorb a lot of information, recognize patterns, and provide actionable conclusions is fueled by relentless curiosity and years of study across cultures, traditions, and disciplines.
This work helps you stop white-knuckling your way through change and start moving with intention, clarity, and a lot less suffering. If you are at a crossroads and the old ways aren't working anymore, this work will help you find your footing. This work is most effective for the folks who have many roles - professionals, caretakers, high performers - who are in the middle of a massive life change and need clarity, not chaos.
This is not therapy. It's a relationship and a practice that has therapeutic effects.
It’s coaching. Just not in the gym.
Instead of coaching you to lift weights and stretch, I will challenge how you perceive what is happening in your life. I will stretch your capacity to reconstitute all of it into fertilizer for the future you are building.
Instead of asking you to track your macros and steps, you’ll track daily minutes box breathing and the quality of the words you feed yourself.
This kind of work will audit your perception - molded by your conditions and standards. This kind of relationship holds you accountable to your vision while you practice internal stability.
We move forward side by side - shoulder to shoulder. I don’t speak from perfection, just a lot of practice.
Change is inevitable.
Photo by EMCaraballoThis one-hour session is a look into your current place in life with an eye on the past that inspired it and the fruits that are to come.
Using a card spread I developed many years ago called the Tree, the cards’ medicine is delivered through storytelling and the powerful, precise gift of each animal’s medicine as told by the Cherokee, Seneca, and Choctaw traditions.
These readings hold deep reverence for the unknown - delivered with the straight-speaking nourishing intention that honors both the mundane and divine.
Recordings are available, along with a picture and description of the cards pulled.