Sherene Cauley (she/her) is a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach, the founder of The Nurtured Life, the Associate Director of The Whole Health Center in Bar Harbor, Maine, and a Phd student working towards her Doctor of Ministry with a focus on social transformation from United Theological Seminary, Twin Cities. 

Sherene lives with her husband, mother, and children on the coast of Maine. 

Sherene founded The Nurtured Life in 2003, a Maryland-based wellness service to build mindful life practices into everyday living. As a mother and connected community member with an academic background in education, she recognized the need for holistic early childhood education and designed The Nurtured Life to offer guidance to families in communication, physiological awareness, natural world connection, and whole foods sustenance.  In 2008, Sherene completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training with Diane Finlayson and, in 2009, a certificate in pregnancy yoga to integrate yoga practices into family care. The role of The Nurtured Life naturally broadened to become a nexus for practical and emotional family support with the launch of a whole foods purchasing cooperative, a network of peer support, and coaching services for parents and families.

As someone who has struggled throughout her life with dyslexia, she began to recognize how her neurodivergent sensitivities help her to tune into her internal and external environments, which not only allow her to experience her spirituality more fully but also to guide others in healing practices that are responsive to mind and body. In 2018, Sherene completed a Master of Arts in Health and Wellness Coaching from Maryland University of Integrative Health and formally became a wellness coach.

The Nurtured Life has evolved as a wellness coaching service for clients across the country and includes workshops on attuning to our inner and outer realities to build supportive, sustainable lifestyles.

Sherene’s academic research has examined the effects of hegemonic white patriarchy on spirituality and human development. As an American and woman of Iranian heritage, she recognizes both socially and personally the harm caused by systems of oppression and the need to actively cultivate a culture of well-being. She continues to combine her knowledge in health coaching, peace studies, and wisdom traditions to offer coaching around barriers to peace, equity, and social justice. 

In this episode, we dove into the following topics:

Grief
Joy
Connection
What calls us to our work and to practice 
Pain as a catalyst for truth and transformation
Children and how they don’t want to transcend this human experience or reality
Evolution and our understanding of history 
The cosmic unfolding 
The nature of healing
The process by which people heal
Spiritual practice
Community as a congregation
What results from us believing we are separate from one another and all things
Embodiment
Repatterning 
Ritual 
Showing up authentically

Connect with Sherene on her website or on Instagram @thenurturedlife_sherene.

Support Sherene’s access fund for coaching and to support her clients and practice of not turning anyone away.

Podcast music by Charles Kurtz

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