Marilyn Babcock

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Retired psychotherapist, now exclusively a mindfulness and stress reduction coach.

Social Worker in Unadilla, NY

Services
  • Individual

About My Clients

You practice self-inquiry, meditation, and sooner or later it stirs up your shit. Or you practice BECAUSE there is shit in your outer life. You meditate or look within to find peace! And what's occurring isn’t always peaceful. Here’s what I know from long experience: When you stay with it, and you never-give-up your searching within, the shit composts, the Way clears, and the continued inquiry leads to your unique gifts, your inner treasure. But how?

My Background and Approach

You cannot bypass dealing with the shit. Not if you plan to live the life that’s truly yours. What makes me know this? What makes me good at this? I’m old now, but thanks to guides, muses, and inspirers along my life’s path, I was and still am guided and prodded and supported and challenged in my own inner work. Now I pay that forward. You can see my professional resume at my website. But that’s the least of it. What counts, and what I want to pass on to you, is the ability to be honest, sit compassionately with the self-deceiving shit, feel its pain. EVEN GREATER than this, deep down underneath this, is finding and engaging with your inner gift, the treasure that’s uniquely yours. Don’t believe it? What if part of you senses it could be true?

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

My greatest heartbreak over my lifetime is having seen so many people begin a personal or spiritual quest - even spend years at it - and then quit. Or feel stuck and discouraged. Just when potential breakthroughs are happening, it always gets uncomfortable and people don’t know what to do. And they quit. But this is precisely when we are called to persevere. All those myths and fairy tales about the seeming "fool" or "nobody" or "weakling" being the one who enters the cave, faces the dragon and finds the treasure? It’s a thing. It happens when we feel weak, foolish, but determined. If you pay attention to the stories you’ll see, they never do it completely alone. There are helpers. Let me help you never-give-up on discovering your inner treasure.

Techniques I Use

Specialties
Coaching
Other Techniques
  • Contemplative Therapy

Issues I Treat

Specialties
Spirituality
Other Issues
  • Aging Concerns
  • Grief or Loss
  • Spirituality
I offer online counseling in the following states:
I have experience with the following
  • Buddhism
  • Christianity
  • Hinduism
  • Islam
  • Jehovah's Witnesses
  • Wicca/Paganism
  • Interfaith
  • Multifaith

At A Glance

  • Experience: 30 years of practice
  • Rate: $125/session

Info

Email Marilyn
12 Watson Street
Unadilla, NY 13849

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