December 7, 2009 - The Doings-ClarendonHills.Com – USA

For Clarendon Hills resident Laura Porada, seeing a life coach helped her adjust to her new life as a single mom.

After going to a therapist to resolve issues involving her marriage and ex-husband, she no longer wanted to dwell on what went wrong.

“There was no solution; I wanted to work more on a solution,” she said.
Porada started weekly sessions with life coach Patti Baron Schreiber, another Clarendon Hills resident who started her business, The Spirited Path, four years ago.

Through various techniques, tools and methods, Porada said her resentment and anger toward her ex-husband has diminished and her self-image increased.

“I feel like I’m sitting down talking with a friend,” Porada said.
Finding purpose Baron Schreiber started thinking about going back to work after her children were a bit older. She had worked in the corporate world for 12 years as a senior vice president in marketing for a bank and quit when she was pregnant with her second child.

“I experienced a huge loss of identity because I saw so much of myself in my career,” she said.

She first tried volunteer work for her children’s schools, and although Baron Schreiber said it was very rewarding, something was still missing.

After exploring her options, she met with Sonia Choquette, a psychic, spiritual teacher and author of numerous New Age books, including The Answer is Simple , Love Yourself, Live Your Spirit.

“A lot of her seminars are on intuition and finding your life’s purpose,” Baron Schreiber said.
She attended courses at the Napa, Calif.-based Hoffman Institute, which specializes in helping adults dramatically change their lives.

Teaching others what she had learned now became Baron Schreiber’s life purpose and she became a certified professional coach.  Read Story.