Diane Linsley

Diane Linsley is a certified life coach who specializes in self-compassion, life transitions and spiritual development. She coaches from a Christian perspective and has worked with people from many religious backgrounds, respecting each person's individual journey. She has been a certified coach since 2014.

Her coaching covers emotional coaching, relationship coaching (overcoming codependency, developing healthy boundaries and working with shadow material), Voice Dialogue coaching, and spiritual coaching for people going through faith transitions. In her view, self-compassion is a spiritual skill that grows stronger with practice. She sees it as more than self-care, because it includes self-discipline and taking responsibility for one's life.

Diane has studied Jungian psychology, cognitive development and Zen Buddhism. She has used modalities including shadow work, Voice Dialogue and dreamwork, and she has spent decades studying psychology and spirituality. After about ten years of working with clients, she narrowed her methods to the processes she finds most effective and grounded in sound psychology. She writes articles on her own experiences, including letting go of painful stories.

Her own life informs her work. She has lived with autoimmune disease since age 20, and she says chronic pain and illness have taught her compassion for the suffering of all people. She raised and homeschooled three children. She is also an avid gardener and the owner of Diane's Flower Seeds.

On her YouTube channel she shares guided meditations on relationships, codependency, boundaries, self-compassion, goals and creativity. Each one pairs music with a slideshow that goes with the story, and the flower pictures come from her own garden.