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Meet the life coach behind My Coaching For Life, Mary is a certified Life Coach in Omaha where she enjoys reading and sharing books, taking in nature and exploring all life has to offer with her husband Kurt, and dog
Mary Shafer
"Scruffy", a great source of inspiration
Mary Shafer was born and raised in northern Colorado, and graduated with her first degree from a small college (now university) in Illinois in 1976.

​In 2003, she continued her base of knowledge and received a Master of Arts degree in psychology from the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology (now Sofia University). Transpersonal Psychology is a positive branch of the field, also considered 'whole person' psychology.

Certification as a Life Coach from the Academy for Coaching Excellence followed in 2006.  Giving a host of practical tools to offer clients to assist them in creating lives of purpose and contentment.  

In 2017, she received the Institute for the Psychology of Eating's certification as an Eating Psychology coach, also known as a Body, Mind, Eating coach.  Additionally, completing the Institute's Teacher, Leader, Presenter program.  This psychology is also positive and is a 'whole person' approach. 
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"Each degree was important for me to move forward in my own life and practice. I pull from this cumulative knowledge to best enhance the individual's path. Outside of coaching, I love to read, exercise, travel and volunteer with the Nebraska Humane Society. I currently live in Omaha, Nebraska with my husband and our rescue dog "Scruffy". If you have questions on how my coaching approach could help you, please contact me.  I look forward to helping you live your best life." learn more on my blog
Mary Shafer
  • Owner, CEO Life Coaching LLC, Omaha, NE
           2006 – Present
EDUCATION
  • Academy for Coaching Excellence, Sacramento, CA
           Certification as a Life Coach, 2004 – 2006
           To earn my certification, I performed 125 hours of life coaching, as well as demonstrated my understanding of life coaching             principles and techniques in coaching sessions with instructors at the Academy for Coaching Excellence
  • Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
           Master of Arts (M.A.) Psychology, 2001 – 2003
           I learned the positive side of psychology--transpersonal psychology looks at the entire person: mind, body, spirit.
  • Institute for the Psychology of Eating 
          Coaching Certification, 2017
  • Institute for the Psychology of Eating 
          Certified Mind, Body, Eating Coach, 2017
          Psychology of Eating
   Additional training in Teaching, Leading and Presenting
  • Rockford University, English Literature, 1976

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