Kevin Mutschler, L.Ac.

Heart Coaching

It's your Life
It's your Healing
It's your Choice

Life changes

Something happens. Something unexpected. Suddenly you find yourself with a diagnosis, a personal loss, an injury or illness, a trauma, a job loss. Nothing is the same. All your roadmaps are instantly obsolete. What are you going to do? What can you do? How will you find your way forward?

It happened to me. In an instant. A traumatic brain injury in 1990 ended life as I knew it. Everything stopped. From one moment to the next my life changed completely. I spent the next eight years learning how to heal, learning how to live a new life. I wrote about it. I am still learning.

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Change happens. Without change, nothing new becomes possible.

Life doesn't change

The same old things seem to happen over and over. You want to do things differently but you find yourself in the same situation, different day, same outcome. All your roadmaps are leading to the same unwanted or unfulfilling destinations. What are you going to do? What can you do? How will you find your way forward?

It happened to me. I came out of the brain injury with PTSD, major depression and alcohol addiction. Each day was a repeat of the day before. I waited. Hoping things would change by themselves. They didn't. Other people saw my stuckness. They recommended doctors, groups, practices. I said, "Thank you," and I went back to waiting.

Then one day, a friend did something simple and extraordinary. She picked up the phone on her desk and called the Osteopath I had not called and she booked me an appointment. I went to the appointment. He started to treat me. Things started to change. Then I remembered the Chinese doctor I had invited to my medical anthropology class. I started to study qigong with him. More things started to change.

Then I had a blackout. I went to see an osteopath/psychiatrist. He talked about PTSD. I didn't know what he was talking about. PTSD made no sense to me. I listened for a year. Then one day it made sense. More things started to change. Then I heard about Vipassana. My brother in law, a neurologist, said it was the strongest brain medicine he knew . I listened. I went to Vipassana training. More things started to change. ...READ MORE

Change can happen. Without change old outcomes keep repeating themselves.

Is it time for a change?

Life is too precious to spend it doing work that you do not love or work that is not respected or supported. Many people start over, sometimes numerous times. I have started over four times. First in medical anthropology. Second in Ayurvedic healing support. Third in traditional Chinese medicine practice. And now in coaching. Are you ready to chart a new course? What are you hoping to do? What would you love to be doing? Are you considering retiring? Would you like to partner in finding your way forward?

Life change can happen. You're never too young or too old to change.

Caregiver burnout

Too many of my seriously ill patients were teachers, nurses or care givers. Caring professionals too often don't prioritize their own self-care needs.

It happened to me. I took on too much in treating my patients and became exhausted and vulnerable. I had to slow down, to reduce my workload, to be honest with myself about my own limitations. I had to learn to ask for support for myself.

People who give for a living also need to receive and often need clarity to learn how to ask for what they need and support to take action to get what they need for their own well being.

Change can be healing.

Healing support

After your diagnosis, after your treatments, after your discharge, you can find yourself left back where you started –– on your own. No more doctors. No more medical techs. No more hospital staff. The society of medical support that once surrounded you is gone. Medicine has done what it can. Your healing is now up to you. Actually it always was. But it seemed like your care was other peoples business.

It happened to me. In my twenties I was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune syndrome that was afflicting my eyes, leaving me blind in the affected eye for weeks at a time. Doctors told me that the episodes in each eye would increase in frequency and I would soon be permanently blind. Medicine had no curative treatment for my condition. If I was not to go blind I would have to figure out how to heal on my own.

It happened again in 1990. Doctors had nothing for me after the brain injury. Their advice? Just be patient. Once again I was on my own to discover what helped, what didn't. And to find my own way to healing. ... READ MORE

We all need to learn how to heal. How will you do it? Who will help?

Self-healing skills can be learned. They can be practiced.

About Kevin Mutschler

Kevin supports clients on their own life journeys. He has studied, practiced and taught Qigong self-healing skills for over thirty years. He studied and practiced Feldenkrais Functional Integration before that. He studied, practiced and taught Ayurvedic approaches to healing in Polarity therapy for ten years, developed the Somatic Freedom approach to working with the body, and practiced TCM acupuncture for over twenty-years treating hundreds of patients with life changing health challenges including cancer, MS, and many other chronic conditions.

Kevin trained in Integrative Cancer Care Navigation with the Smith Center for Healing and the Arts where he teaches online Qigong self-healing classes and is a graduate of the Newfield Network professional training in Ontological Coaching.

Kevin offers coaching to anyone facing a career, healing or life transition who would like to partner with a navigator. You will walk your own path. I will help you chart a safe route to find your way.

Are you ready to partner for positive change?

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Testimonials

What Clients are Saying

Kevin has helped me navigate health, healing, business, family and personal challenges. He holds a compassionate, understanding, thoughtful and safe space allowing me to access my own inner resources helping me to meet life with more gratitude and grace.

T.E. Bethesda, MD

Kevin's ability to listen and to hold space really helped me to process my thoughts on a deeper level. Working with him I gained more self-awareness and developed more effective thinking habits. I am very thankful for the chance to be coached by him.

J.H. Singapore

I have practiced self-healing Qigong with Kevin for over four years and have been coached by him more recently. His explanations of the movements are helpful and inspiring – not a word I use lightly. Kevin has been a steady support for me during my recovery.

J.M. Washington, DC

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Who do you want to be in a year?

I work worldwide with a limited number of clients so that I can be fully with you on your own road to a more fulfilling tomorrow. We work together with term agreements for first three, then six sessions. After that we make a plan together suited to your continued support goals.