Holistic support for
body, mind, and spirit
Through wellness coaching and gentle Reiki support, I help women over 65 ease pain, sleep more deeply, lift mood, strengthen memory, and move with greater ease—so they can stay active, independent, and fully engaged with life.My approach is comprehensive, aiming to minimise reliance on medication, reduce stress, and enhance well-being.Everything I do is grounded, practical, compassionate, and tailored to your comfort level. I encourage you to explore options that foster your resilience, health, and personal growth
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When I saw Shoshana I was in a hard place, and my confidence level was toppling. The session brought immediate and long-term insight, a sense of peace and the confidence that helped me pull through a dangerous medical procedure. I am grateful for Shoshana’s guiding spirit for a life-changing experience - Patty T.
My time with Shoshana was both enjoyable and valuable. It left me feeling hopeful and encouraged about my life. Shoshana has a gentle presence and a wealth of knowledge - Margie V.
My consultation with Shoshana Kobrin gave me profound insight into my problems - Carol B.
My life coaching session with Shoshana was timely, professional, and detailed - Frank F.
Shoshana's workshop was stimulating and demonstrated her depth of knowledge. She is a caring, thoughtful instructor paying attention to detail. I enjoyed her enthusiasm and humor - Peter S.
what is wellness coaching?
As a wellness coach, I help you identify behaviors that hinder healthy living, support older women in navigating the complexities of health conditions, and improve their ability to manage symptoms and maintain a positive outlook on life. I act as a mentor and motivator, and provide emotional support and encouragement for managing chronic conditions
Supportive feedback in a safe place will help you:
Develop healthier lifestyle habits
Build motivation and develop action plans and workable routines
Reinforce positive changes and build your motivation
Overcome your health challenges
Work through limiting beliefs and thoughts
Create specific, achievable, and relevant goals to better your emotional and physical health
what is reiki?
Reiki is a Japanese energy-healing technique in which I channel energy through my hands to clear blockages to healing. Gentle, non-invasive light-touch hand placements on or above specific points on the body promote relaxation and release muscle tension.Benefits include reduced pain, stress, anxiety, and insomnia, and strengthen the body’s natural healing abilities.My approach to Reiki is practical and grounded. I create conditions for your system to calm down, ease physical and emotional discomfort, and find its natural balance.SELF-DISCOVERY THROUGH TAROTPioneers such as Angeles Arrien transformed Tarot's reputation of fortune-telling and the occult. Today, it's a tool for guidance, similar to other types of inner work, such as visualization, art therapy, dreamwork, and journaling.Tarot encourages reflection and clarity. The cards feature symbolic images that access memories, emotions, and ideas that are hard to reach through words alone. This is a way to explore what's unfolding in your life, what's essential, and what possibilities may open.In a session, you choose the cards, and I bring my understanding of their symbolic language. Together, we review the images, identify what they evoke, and connect them to your current issues. Our conversation clarifies your goals, identifies what's getting in the way, and provides guidance for the best course of action.INTUITIVE INSIGHTThis is a quiet, attentive way of listening "with the third ear." As we talk, I pay close attention to patterns, emotions, and subtle cues that illuminate what you may be feeling or needing. It's about tuning in with care, noticing what resonates, and connecting you with your inner wisdom.I draw on my experience, sensitivity, and presence to reflect what I'm sensing and always in collaboration with you. This sheds light on your concerns and pinpoints strengths you may be overlooking.
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About Shoshana Kobrin
I was born in South Africa, and from an early age, I loved reading and writing. My professional life unfolded in the world of literature, where I taught skills that would become the foundation of my work with clients' inner narratives. Apartheid's interracial dynamics led me to psychology. After arriving in California, I became a psychotherapist specializing in food and weight issudes and was certified in hypnotherapy. I taught at John F. Kennedy University and facilitated workshops and retreats in the community.
After some years, I returned to writing with renewed energy, creating a journaling guide, self‑help books, and collections of short stories and poetry. Teaching memoir writing to adults became another way for people to uncover their truth. At the same time, I trained to become a Reiki Master.Today, I bring all these threads together. My work as a wellness coach blends the insight of psychotherapy with meditation, visualization, writing, and art therapy. As a Reiki Master, I incorporate energy healing and intuition to support physical ease, grounding, and mental clarity. Integrating Tarot into my practice increases my clients' self-awareness and emotional growth.Throughout every chapter of my life, my mission has remained the same: To help people feel more at home in their bodies, connected to meaning and purpose, and more able to relish their time on our earth.
Books
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Life Tales: How to write your memoir
Your life, pinned down in memoir, is a gift to the world. Learn how to turn it into a unique and heart-warming story to engage and inspire your readers. Comprehensive, practical, and user-friendly, this informative book is your indispensable guide. It provides tools to get you started, keep you focused on your writing path, and takes you through to the publishing and marketing process.Life Tales includes all the elements of memoir writing – and license to tell your tale!
Roots and Wings: Growing Up in Apartheid South Africa
These stories are told with an insider’s view of a conflicted and oppressive period in South African history. The themes vary; encounters with wild monkeys and elephants, a mother bonding with her small daughter on a safari trip, a young boy stranded in the Karroo semi-desert, a dog attack on a remote Transvaal farm, and a white college student’s epiphany when confronted with her black maid’s anguish.These stories:
Capture the essence of apartheid South Africa
Are infused with the flavor of the South African landscape
Reflect a coming of age of the characters
Are an incisive commentary on racial prejudice
“Shoshana’s stories are humorous, sad, and profound” – Eli R.
“Shoshana paints an accurate picture of life in that beautiful, racially troubled country” – Sandy L.
“Roots and Wings reflects not only the social upheaval of that time, but also the interior transformation of her characters” – Gabrielle M.
A Tempo: Seasons of a Life
A Tempo explores the transitory nature of time in poetry and painting. The poems are divided into the four seasons. Winter and autumn poems are darker, spring and summer are lighter, even inspirational. The watercolor illustrations for each season are inspired by Chinese brush painting. Some poems are from Judaism or Buddhism, others from psychology, feminism, or philosophy. Some reflect on love, others on loss. Several reflect a love of the natural world. Readers are encouraged to seize each second, cherish each moment, and treasure each day – before it’s too late!Father Time waves his wrist watch at the edge of my consciousness, reminding me to get on with living mindfully and joyfully.
“A symphonic masterpiece of life songs” – Holli K.
“A Tempo is an inspiration for those of us who wait for the right season to put our works into print and paintings” – Elida S.
“What a gift we have in the poems and paintings of Shoshana Kobrin. Readers are suspended in time between pole and tropic” – Sandra R.
The Satisfied Soul Daily Guidebook:
Your Path to Fulfillment
Clarify priorities and goals
Break away from negative patterns
Face challenges with courage and creativity
Struggling with money, relationships, work, or harmful habits? You could have soul hunger. No amount of food, money, sex, or job promotions can satisfy a starving soul. The Satisfied Soul Daily GuideBook is a revolutionary approach to journaling. Ten minutes a day working with this book will enable you to achieve your objectives and realize your dreams.
The GuideBook is now out of print. To receive it as a PDF, please contact me.
7 Steps for Positive Connections: Manifesting Your Satisfied Soul
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Do you feel connected with who you really are? With family and friends? Your body? Your work and living situation? High mobility, consumerism, and the stress of our fast-paced lives challenge us. Face-to- face interactions diminish with our use of smartphones and texting. No wonder we often feel alienated and empty. Life-satisfaction is all about connection. In this book, you’ll find out:
How to connect with your inner truth
How to form meaningful connections with others
How to choose communities and activities that energize you
How to achieve your life purpose
Discover the seven key steps for building deep-rooted connections with all aspects of your life. Embark on this voyage to the fertile land of your Satisfied Soul!
“An uplifting book! Change your thoughts, change your life” – Eric M.
“7 Steps to Positive Connections is a potent tool, helping readers empower themselves and others” – Robert M.
“Shoshana encourages us to dream big, envisioning authentic lives filled with love, health, meaningful work, and fun” – Cynthia Sue L.
Love, Anger, Power – and FOOD!
A Guidebook for Women
Learn to love and appreciate yourself and your body
Claim power over your life and eating patterns
Eliminate dieting, bingeing, or purging by using feelings productively
Enjoy a new reality unhampered by food and weight worries
Problems with overeating, overweight, bingeing, yo-yo dieting, bulimia, or anorexia? Or just feeling bad about your body and appearance? Love, anger, and power are the roots of your concerns. This user-friendly guidebook cuts to the chase, giving you the answers you’re seeking. Learn the fundamental reasons for your food and weight worries. Relish the relationship with food and your body.
“Readers will find tools to transform the habits causing them so much difficulty and discover practical steps to recovery” – Sheila A.
“This book by an articulate and compassionate writer, illustrates the wisdom of a seasoned therapist. An extremely helpful resource for those with food and weight issues, their families, and significant others” – Thomas G.
The Satisfied Soul: Transforming Your Food and Weight Worries
Discover the underlying causes of food and weight issues
Create a healthy relationship with food and your body
Nourish your starving soul
In this book, concepts are vividly illustrated with characters based on poignant stories of women in the author’s psychotherapy practice, and her own experience of bulimia. You’ll be encouraged by these courageous women who conquered obsessive dieting, bingeing, compulsive overeating, overweight, obesity, bulimia, and anorexia. Encounter new concepts and ideas, as well as helpful exercises and concrete steps for healing. The Satisfied Soul goes beyond dead-end diet plans with practical tools and a stirring, motivating approach.
“The Satisfied Soul is an extremely timely and important resource for sufferers, educators, and anyone dealing with food and weight issues. Shoshana provides fresh insights through a combination of anecdotes and scientific explanations” – Jocelyn G.
“In this unique volume, Shoshana Kobrin presents useful suggestions on how one can reverse the grip of food and weight concerns” – Alan G.
Do No Harm: Transforming Addictions
Find freedom from cycles of addiction and relapse
Learn self-care practices to end addictions
Find meaning and purpose to embrace your life
Today many of us struggle with addictive substances and behaviors: illegal or prescription drugs, alcohol, food and weight issues, gambling, sexual addiction, overspending, nicotine, or over-use of caffeine. Internet addiction has now reached epidemic proportions.Most books on addictions deal only with symptoms. This book explores underlying issues. Addictions are an unconscious effort to survive a lack of meaning in ourselves, others, and our lives. The antidote for this is; The Satisfied Soul – positive connections with our emotions, body, family, relationships, vocation, and environment. Both practical and inspirational, Do No Harm covers an array of methods to promote healing, recovery, and well-being.
“A great read for anyone suffering from addictions” – Cali E.
“Shoshana Kobrin peels away the complex layers of addiction” – Carole K.
“Expect a transformation as you read this book” – Stella H.
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