Coach for Life Balance

Shafer has a Business Administration background from the University of Louisiana, plus decades of extensive continued education that covers topics from business to behavior, with a focus on human dynamics. Simultaneous to moving through the ranks at a top CPA firm in Louisiana in the 1980s, she created and published Network Quarterly which led her to interact with such movers and shakers as Wayne Dyer, Alan Cohen, Dan Millman, Deepak Chopra, Chris Griscom, Stuart Wilde, and many others integral to the self-empowerment movement and model. She is a Silva Mind Method graduate and trained as a Level 1 Reiki practitioner. 

While living atop the Cumberland Gap in Tennessee prior to moving to New York City, she implemented a workshop and one-on-one coaching called Take This Life and Live It! at the Appalachian Women’s Guild, a non-profit established in the state’s most distressed county to assist unskilled residents to become trained for the workplace. During this time, she was published in several periodicals including The University of Science and Philosophy’s quarterly magazine. She also presented at the International Forum for New Sciences, and did numerous radio interviews and hour-long programs interacting with callers. 

In 2005, Shafer trained as a Life Empowerment Coach with International Professional Empowerment Coaching (iPEC). Additionally, she published I Don’t Want to be Your Guru, but I Have Something to Say (see Lulu.com for exceptional reviews), which was used by a non-profit in NYC to support those impacted by the events of September 11, as well as by a retired military officer who coaches those re-entering civilian life. Other books/e-books by Shafer include How to Have What You REALLY Want, Law of Attraction Alchemy: Turn Lead Thoughts into Gold, and Reinvent Yourself: Refuse to Settle for Less in Life and Business (the eCourse) – all available at www.lulu.com. 

Joyce is a long-time weekly columnist for United Press International’s Religion and Spirituality Forum, and her articles are published at many online venues and read around the world. 

Her focus as a coach is to assist individuals to embody their Truth:

• Each of us is in partnership with Spirit always and in all ways (no one is ever alone).
• Each of us possesses the ability to create the life experience of our choice (even in matters we feel we didn’t choose). We are more powerful than we imagine.
• Each of us has the right to create a life that is meaningful, joyful, serene, abundant, and fulfilling for ourselves. Spirit wants us to ask for what we want. 

Email: jls1422@yahoo.com  ~ http://www.freewebs.com/coach4lifebalance

Joyce Shafer

Coach for Life Balance

New York City