We had the good fortune of connecting with Tanya Wannemacher and we’ve shared our conversation below.
Hi Tanya, what was your thought process behind starting your own business?
I was inspired to start my business as a way to reach individuals who had tried so many ways to find true happiness, to be successful and to feel fulfilled, and were trying to live the best they could to follow their parents or friends’ well meaning advice, yet still were struggling with most areas of their life to basically just stay afloat in their happiness, finances, health. Reaching their dreams was a desire that seemed too far out of reach for them to believe in. I listened to so many people sharing a similar pattern to their pain, and I instinctively knew there was a better way to live life, and I refused to believe that the level of fear, shame, guilt, depression and busyness was all that we were destined for, with small bouts of joy weaved in. I knew it must be the other way around.
These days seem to have many people pausing when answering the rhetorical question, “How are you?”. It’s kind of a loaded one. What exactly does “I’m fine, thank you” mean?
Several years ago, I realized that the everyday hustle to meet expectations left me empty and unhappy. I was functioning “fine, thank you”, yet I was not so good that I could actually say I was happy. I wanted to feel joy, but it felt like another task to accomplish – like laundry! I wanted to be rooted in something more meaningful. I wanted life to be easier. I wanted certainty and folded clothes!
I simply wanted to be happy. It felt complicated. I continually worried, was it me?
I was not a patient with a clinical diagnosis, but an ordinary individual who wanted more, but where could I find it? Hint: I did not find it in a diagnosis or prescription. I found it within.
Mesh Coaching stands for Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health. My mission is to help people weave their beautiful MESH. This fabric becomes the foundation from which you think, behave, connect, and grow. A new way to do life.
By reclaiming trust in yourself, you can begin to weave your tapestry creatively and confidently. I know that each person already has seeded within them the thread and needle, so I just help them dig it out of their sewing kit.
Mesh holds a space to embrace the things that seemingly get you off course, unlocks your inner guidance system that shapes and directs you, your story, your healing, your potentiality, your comeback…and walks with you through your rEvolution. You will discover a new way of seeing yourself, while keeping the same you, but approaching life with the WHOLE you, no holes. You BEcoming You, 2.0.
Can you give our readers an introduction to your business? Maybe you can share a bit about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
I practice a form of coaching called Ontological Coaching which focuses on the ontological aspects of human experience, including how individuals perceive, interpret, and make sense of the world. The term “ontological” refers to the branch of Philosophy that explores the nature of being, existence, and reality. I work with clients to explore and understand the underlying beliefs, assumptions and ways of being that shape their thoughts, emotions and behaviors. This approach emphasizes self-awareness, personal growth, and transformation, helping clients to develop a deeper understanding of themselves and their relationships with others. My coaching involves a holistic approach that considers the interconnectedness of the mind, body and soul by addressing the mental, emotional and spiritual energy (beingness) of a person, as their inner guidance system that directs their physical self. Ontological coaching seeks to empower individuals to live more authentic, fulfilling lives by cultivating greater self awareness, resilience, and agency in navigating life’s challenges and opportunities.
One of the key elements to my coaching philosophy follows the primary physics laws that govern the universe, such as Law of Attraction, Law of Vibration, and Law of Correspondence drawing on these as the foundational principles that are applied to creating your emotional experience. I use techniques from neuroscience to better understand behaviors and thought patterns, and neuroplasticity to rewire the brain and break free from old conditioned sabotaging patterns of thinking, to help clients regulate emotions so that they begin authoring a new story.
Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
My parents for always providing an environment for me to spread my wings and be myself, to not feel limited by social conventions, but to be guided by the beat of my own drum. My upbringing reminds me a lot of my favorite movie “Captain Fantastic” with Rigo Mortensen, living a little off the grid compared to my friends, and a hippy mindset blended into a conventional world. My parents instilled in me the connection to my true nature, my ability to save myself and an innate knowing that nothing feels better than being in the present moment. It took years for those seeds to grow within me, but they have taken full bloom now. I feel true rare unconditional love, not needing to be a certain way or do a certain thing in order to feel 100% worthy, enough, lovfed and lovable exactly as I am. They gave me my wings to fly and I’m so grateful for their emotional steadiness, that has taught me to raise my own children from the level of my own self-awareness.
My husband John for never losing faith in me when I was a butterfly walking, wobbly, awkward and not living from a place of my own empowerment, and therefore me making some messes along the way. We’ve grown up together in many ways on our individual journeys, being each other’s supporters, as well as each other’s triggers to nudge us into our next evolution of ourselves. We had a transformative comeback in our relationship, from mess to Mesh, and we have a good groove going that lights us up and we can look at each other knowing the courage it took for us to go through some tough stuff together, and to have chosen each other again and again even in the hardest moments. We’ve come to realize our ability to connect to our own power and to each other on an energetic level when this physical level is triggering and we become disconnected. And from that place, we find our path back to our happy place within ourselves and subsequently, back to each other. Together we are 200% and unstoppable.
Website: https://www.meshcoaching.com
Image Credits
Cole Wannemacher
Sara Freitag