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Welcome. I'm so glad you found your way here.
BIO
My name is Bonnie Schroeder - a professional in the medical system-turned-inner-leadership coach, who helps people shift from overwhelm to ease when it comes to your physical and brain wellness, without sacrificing whatever means most to you.
After 15 years in the medical system and 20 years guiding individuals, public-sector teams, and corporations in mindfulness and stress reduction, I blend evidence-based science with soulful healing practices to benefit your everyday life. I help you uncover the quiet inner resources that make the difference that makes all the difference - more clarity, more presence, more meaning. I guide you in your next step forward. Steady. Calm. Purposeful.
You willing?
I am delighted to show you the way.
MY STORY
For 15 years I worked in the medical system as a clinician, researcher and in medical management. For the past 20 years I have been a combination of Mindfulness and Stress Reduction Coach, Wellness Consultant and Inner Leadership coach for individuals, the public sector, government, and corporations.
How did I make that leap? Well, growing up on a farm with wide open spaces and the freedom to explore cultivated a deep curiosity in me. A curiosity about everything, including humans. How they see the world. The choices they make. What they value. That extended into my work in hospitals and community health clinics. Why do some people heal and others don't? Some would say, 'If only my pain would go away, my life would be perfect.' The pain would 'go away' and they still weren't happy. There was always something else to hold off their 'if only' happiness.
With an overflowing curiosity (and following a deep inner calling) I did what all logical people who own a home, a new car and no other income support would do, I quit my well-paying, secure and very promising career to travel the world looking for answers. Mostly to developing countries. Mostly for several months at a time. Observing. Inquiring. Studying with healers and other wisdom holders. Walking away from 'living the good life' was totally illogical to my friends and family, who thought I had lost my mind. In hindsight, maybe that was the point. To let go of old limiting mindsets and open to the fuller, more meaningful life that was trying to live through me. My true calling.
During my earth school travels what stood out was two-fold:
Firstly, I was fascinated by other cultures, other perspectives. Much later I realized that this was my next-level compassion training. (My beloved Mom and Grandma were my initial teachers.)
Secondly, certainly not all but enough that it became obvious, was children sitting on the side of the road living in what seemed to be great poverty, and yet they radiated untethered and wonderfully contagious Joy. They had no guarantees about the food, clothing or shelter, and yet, their Joy and light-hearted presence overflowed. I wanted to know their secret. How do I 'get' that medicine to help the people suffering at home?
After traversing 5 continents and a lot of soul searching, I realized that the radiance I had witnessed and deeply felt through those children was indeed an inside job. Not something out there to 'get'. It was already within me. A richness within all of us. So I returned home. Paused. Integrated. Opened a private practice and began helping people turn inward and reconnect with their True Self. A greater capacity for living in the present, navigating stress in healthy ways and living more consciously naturally accompanied that inner realignment support.
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During that time I also honed a long-time-present but not publicly shared natural subtle energy healing gift. Back then it wasn't popular nor did it feel like a gift safe to reveal without risking judgement and misunderstanding. I now have executives asking to include my Integral Energy Medicine with their coaching sessions. They report it quite quickly calms their nervous system, eases feelings of anxiety or overwhelm, and accelerates the shifts in their leadership and mindset coaching. It is an integrative form of support that I offer more widely to the medical system now as well. (including in the operating room during surgeries, in the recovery room, in between chemo appointments, pre-post organ transplants, before and after a health diagnosis, or for many, to more deeply connect with the essence of who they are. We are a collection of humans on this little spinning planet often starving for real connection and meaning. I'm here to help.
After three decades training with numerous world-class teachers in the areas of mental health and wellness, stress reduction, mindfulness, personal and spiritual development, including over 15 years of private mentoring for advanced coaching practice and energy medicine, I continue to share my integral approach to wellbeing, both locally and internationally.
Essentially, I have a brain for science and a heart for healing, offering a compassionate bridge between the perceived polarities of your life; your inner and outer world, your head and your heart, human Doing and human Being.
If you find yourself trapped on a gerbil wheel of 'doing', feeling mentally stuck, knocked off course by a health imbalance, overwhelmed or longing for deeper meaning in your life, let's step towards what's possible for you.
You willing?
I am delighted to show you the way.
Warmly,
Bonnie
A sampling of the organizations I have supported:
The Canadian Department of Justice, Tetra Tech Engineering Consultants, Cypher Environmental, Children’s Research Foundation, Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER), Veterans Canada, EO: Canadian Entrepreneurs Organization leaders, The Johnston Group, Western Canadian Music Association, Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, Farmlink Solutions, Manitoba Teacher’s Society, Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries, University of Manitoba, Fort Garry Hotel, St. Boniface Compassion Project.