What sets Bärbel Aldridge apart as a life enrichment coach is her ability to connect with her clients and patients on mental, emotional, and spiritual levels while keeping a nonjudgmental, supportive attitude. This ability enables her to empathize without getting sucked into the vortex of their stress and dysfunction. Her approach to coaching empowers her clients to unfold into their potential. Her ability to connect is a gift. Maintaining that connection while staying neutral so that she can see situations from a detached vantage point is a skill. She has acquired many such skills over the years. Combined with extensive knowledge and experience of transformational practices that lead to a richer and fuller life, her abilities have made Bärbel a force for growth in the lives of her clients and patients.

Being able to see positive alternatives to negative life situations comes from a lifetime of practice. Bärbel Aldridge has learned to apply a variety of techniques in her own life that she passes on to empower people to transform. While those who know her will vouch for her high energy approach to living, Bärbel has had to learn to come from a place of inner calm in order to avoid having the many demands of competing roles ruin her health. Responsibilities to her large family and clientele along with intensive ongoing educational endeavors both as student and teacher, in addition to her responsibilities as the head of Healing Ways as both executive and healer, constantly demand her attention. But she has learned that all of these demands on her time and energy come second. She makes it her #1 priority to balance her outer and inner worlds, constantly maintaining a connection with Spirit that enables her to stay centered when situations around her get crazy.

In 1998, overwhelmed by too many conflicting demands on her time and energy, Bärbel Aldridge withdrew from her Greensboro practice for almost 2 years in order to concentrate on mothering 3 teenagers and one preteen, completing her ND, and continuing her practice at home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Tennessee. At that time the ill effects of stress had damaged her health. She realized then how heavily stress can impact the wellness of an otherwise healthy person, and she devoted a great deal of time to fulfilling a demand that every healer must answer, summed up in the commandment, “Physician, heal thyself." For until the discipline a healer gains as an apprentice, student, and practitioner have borne transformational results in ones own experience, teachings remain theory. Only on the forge of experience does learning become knowledge. In her coaching Bärbel Aldridge draws on her experience of many transformations in her own life, ranging from stress relief to relationship management to improving emotional and physical health, to enrich the quality of her clients' lives.

The appreciation she has gained for the central role that taming stress plays in her own health and that of her patients has led to many successes. Recently, a patients came to Bärbel who earlier this year endured a debilitating illness that nearly resulted in surgery to remove part of her colon. She chose to wait and seek natural healing, and she came to Bärbel for advice. After listening to this woman's history of marital conflict and professional challenges, it became clear that she had repressed emotional pain while dealing with her husband's betrayal and the consequent divorce, striving to maintain her standing in her community, and getting started in a new career. This patient's physical health problems appeared to be a consequence of these emotional stresses. With Bärbel Aldridge's support, she has reclaimed her power as a woman and let go of the past. Once she healed emotionally, her symptoms, which had partially healed in response to natural therapies, cleared up completely. Today this woman is well, and she has grown immensely through these experiences. Not only is she now able to manage her own stress, but she has also recovered the strength to be a pillar of support to her loved ones, and she is increasingly successful in her work.

Life Enrichment Coaching is a natural outgrowth of Bärbel Aldridge's healing work, and it is an aspect of her practice that she is currently working to develop, so openings for clients interested in working with her by phone are available right now. If you feel the desire to work on your growth with the guidance of a wise woman versed in spiritual, emotional, mental and physical health practices, one who has walked the talk of her teachings through personal, family and professional growth, who has enjoyed great success in marriage, parenting, social and business relationships, and who is always true to herself and others in all her dealings, contact Bärbel Aldridge now.