Meet Sharon Desjarlais, Your Personal Guide
to CranioSacral Success

Have you ever had one of those pivotal moments that changed your life?

I have. It happened on my sister-in-law’s living room floor in 1986. She was a PT who wanted to try out this “new technique” she’d just learned.

Within 30 minutes, the pain that had been nagging my back for 3 years was gone.

That was my first touch of CranioSacral Therapy. I was hooked, and it quickly became my family’s modality of choice.

Flash forward to another one of those life-changing moments. It was 1993. I was an advertising manager for a Fortune 100 company where my projects brought in a net profit of more than $3 million that year alone.

But on this day – March 13 – I was standing in a large conference room around a table of 15 executives, most of them men in navy blue three-piece suits.

The leader of the group asked us all to share our personal vision for the company. This was my day to share mine.

Having worked as an independent marketing specialist for the previous 7 years, I felt out of my element here. I’d been trying on my “corporate” personality, but it never did feel like a fit.

On this day, I decided I was going to toss it all in the toilet. I was going to tell the truth about my personal vision for how I thought business should be done. I was pretty sure I would be asked to leave. But I decided to go for it anyway. After all, I’d been self-employed before. What did I have to lose?

As I glanced around at all those men looking up at me, I took a deep breath, cleared my throat and said, “I see the potential for our work together being more of a spiritually fulfilling calling than work as we’ve known it.

“By deepening our respect for each other as professionals and as people, we can join together as a team to apply our intelligence and our passion to understanding our customers’ needs and bringing them products and services that improve the quality of their lives.

“Our inner nature can be expressed through our projects and affirmed through our results. When we enrich others, in the process, we too become enriched.”

I quickly dropped into my seat and prepared for the worst. The gentleman to my left turned to me with a slightly startled look on his face. “That is so cool,” he said.

That moment I released the breath I didn’t even know I was holding.

Blending My Profession With My Passion

I have always known that we are each meant to bring our spiritual gifts to the world through our work. And I have always believed that we were intended to enrich others as we too are enriched.

So in 1994, when I had the opportunity to bring my passion for relationship marketing together with something I truly believe in – CranioSacral Therapy – I grabbed it. That’s when I joined The Upledger Institute. Over the next 15 years I was their Advertising Manager, Media Relations Manager and Senior Writer/Editor.

I also worked hand-in-hand with Dr. John E. Upledger, the osteopath who pioneered the field of CranioSacral Therapy (CST). Together, we co-authored hundreds of CST articles and book chapters.

They’ve been featured in “Modalities for Massage and Bodywork,” Mosby (December 2008); “Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Rehabilitation,” Churchill Livingstone (August 2002); and the Massage Today “CranioSacrally Speaking” monthly column (2001-2009).

In 2004, I launched this coaching practice specifically to help CranioSacral Therapists develop the confidence and communication skills to fill their practices with ease and joy.

A few short years later, in 2007, I was awarded Prosperous Coach of the Year for my “unshakeable focus, deep integrity, and consistent modeling of impeccable marketing and business practices mixed with tremendous coaching skills for CranioSacral Therapists.”

I know this work. I believe in this work. And I know what YOU are capable of contributing to the rest of humanity when you practice it.

Guiding Beliefs and Values

As a coach, I love working with passionate therapists to bring their gifts to the world in a natural, stress-free way.

I do that by staying centered in my own integrity, which includes these guiding beliefs and values:

• We each have a perfect purpose in this world. We are hardwired with specific gifts, strengths and skills. Then as we grow, we come across experiences that light our passions. When we align our gifts with our passions, we become conduits for much more than physical healing. The effects are felt on the mental, emotional and spiritual planes as well. And that’s when we’re making our unique contribution.

• We were born to work with joy. It’s no mistake that we’re born with these incredible brains, insatiable spirits and the urge to create. Look into the face of any child and you know. We were born to be happy, and to share that joy with everyone we touch.

• Work should not be a struggle. The key is learning how to turn your talents into strengths – and then support those strengths by surrounding yourself with people whose natural gifts complement yours.

• The same power that created the universe is alive inside of us. We are all part of a creative life force that is in and around every one of us.

• We always have a choice. We can continue to operate by default, letting ourselves drift from point to point. Or we can learn how to heighten our awareness of this force and let it guide us gently to the next scenic overlook in our journey.

• “The shortest distance between two points is an intent” – followed up with focused action. You’ve probably already come across this quote inspired by Dr. John. It’s true. Setting your intention is the key to being an effective CranioSacral Therapist.

• Intention needs to be followed with purposeful action. Otherwise, it’s nothing more than a thought that remains unfulfilled. And that’s where I come in. I’m the action-oriented partner you’ve been looking for to bring your dreams of becoming a prosperous therapist into reality.

Professional Credentials

• Certified Life Purpose and Career Coach, Life Purpose Institute, Program Certified by the International Coach Federation (ICF), 2005

• “Now What? 90 Days to a New Life Direction” Authorized Program Facilitator, Life Blueprint Institute, 2006

• Certified Hypnotherapist, National Guild of Hypnotists, 1993

• B.A., Advertising/Public Relations, University of Central Florida, 1984

• Award-Winning Writer and Editor

Here’s Your Next Simple Step

Find out how much you can achieve in your practice with a professional coach by your side. Click here to contact Sharon and schedule a complimentary “Get Acquainted” consultation.