Are your thoughts driving you crazy?

I’ll teach you how to release fearful and negative thinking and make decisions from a place of clarity and confidence.

You want to succeed in your career, be fully present to your family, and stay aware and engaged with your community and the larger world. You’re running as fast as you can and yet there’s a voice in your head telling you it’s not enough, you must do better. Despite it’s relentless negativity you might actually believe that without that nagging, doubting, judging voice you’d be a failure.

You’re wrong about that. The truth is your spirit will eventually be crushed by that voice. Criticizing you is its sole purpose and no amount of success will ever satisfy it.

Using an inquiry process, I ask questions that help you identify the beliefs that create barriers, I challenge you to let go of those beliefs, and support you through that process. I provide one-on-one coaching where I listen deeply, offer clear feedback, and provide new perspectives.

Working with me you will

1. Identify the key beliefs that block your progress to a rewarding life.
2. Develop practices that increase calmness, clarity, and self-acceptance.
3. Maintain a level of self-awareness that allows you to accept change and make decisions, from a place of confidence and not fear.

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Mariangela Maguire

I truly believe you can alter the way you see your life and the way you live your everyday life. By examining and changing the way you talk to yourself about yourself and about others you can transform your life. I believe this in my bones and I’ve seen countless people succeed.

I earned a Ph.D. in communication studies and I taught courses in interpersonal communication for over 20 years. I was 18 when I found a home in communication studies. The courses I took gave me a vocabulary for making sense of my feelings and experiences. With words and concepts to help me understand the world around me, I felt less alone. Studying communication changed how I saw my life and gave me tools to help others. Recently, I became a Martha Beck certified life coach in order to more fully meet my clients’ needs.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Communication Coach, Teacher, & Facilitator  1994-present

Martha Beck Certified Life Coach  2017-present

Director, Gerald & Carol Vovis Center for Research & Advanced Study, Knox College    2013-2017

Associate Director, Center for High Achievement & Scholarly Engagement, Butler University  2009-2013

Academic Dean, Gustavus Adolphus College  2005-2009

Faculty member in Communication Studies, Gustavus Adolphus College 1994-2009

EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Philosophy of Communication, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
M.A. in Communication Theory, California State University, Chico
B.A. in Speech Communication, San Francisco State University
General Education, Santa Rosa Junior College

 Certified

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What my clients say

Mariangela is an excellent listener, but not simply to affirm my perspectives, but to challenge me in my thinking and doing. Her careful questioning and comments helped me to move through whatever issue I was working on in a way that was both affirming and challenging. Cindy, 50, higher education leader

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I was lost in my thoughts and emotions about my issue and I couldn’t find any clarity. I needed to find someone trustworthy who could help me sort through what was going on. Working with a coach felt like a commitment to my well being within a focused time period. Mariangela has an amazing capacity to listen deeply to what I’m saying and ask great questions that provide that moment of new awareness or new perspective. She helped me see my issue in a different way and got me out of the squirrel cage of my mind. Linda, 60 international education leader

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Having someone to listen and normalize experiences and feelings a little bit for/with me was really helpful when I was feeling very uncertain about finding a new job and tending to catastrophize outcomes in my mind, which was sending me into panic mode. Mariangela helped me gain some perspective about myself and my personality and abilities – how I tend to see myself/judge myself more harshly than most people probably do – that others, at least sometimes, probably see me as fairly competent, valuable, even calm and friendly. Vanessa, 34 legal assistant

 

I love working with Mariangela. I feel a level of comfort with her that I don’t feel with many people. Great energy. I love the breathing exercise that begins each session. It really connects me to my body. It has a calming effect. I like the focus on the present and the future. It creates a space for me to focus on what’s happening now and how I am operating in the world while at the same time I looking towards where I want to be. I am more aware of the fact that I have a choice to make about how I’m going to go about doing something. I find myself giving myself permission to do something…or do nothing. I’m just calmer and I’m really taking some time to slow down and think about things. Susan, 50, artist/teacher