Hi, I'm Rob!

The founder of The Ziran Life and a Certified Spiritual Life Coach.
My work centers on helping people live with clarity, confidence, and authenticity — especially those who’ve spent years shaping themselves to fit someone else’s definition of success, safety, or salvation.

After three decades in counseling, military chaplaincy, religious ministry, and organizational leadership, I now coach people who are ready to live beyond the systems that once defined them. I serve those unraveling the frameworks and labels that once gave them purpose — and who are now asking deeper questions. What do I actually believe? What do I truly want? Who am I without the structure?

My own journey has moved through every corner of collapse and reinvention.
From C-suites to combat zones. From birth centers to cemeteries. From tactical commands to coffee shops. From suicidal ideation to embodied healing. From religious dogma to spiritual deconstruction.

I’ve sat with grief, trauma, burnout, joy, and transformation — not just in the lives of others, but in my own bones. And if there’s one truth I’ve learned across all those thresholds, it’s this:

The deepest healing doesn’t come from answers handed down... but from truth rising up.
And that truth doesn’t rise up from dogma. It rises up from the deep, energetic relationship between your body and your mind — your knowing and your being. It’s in that sacred space of inner listening where real clarity emerges. 

That’s why I left consulting and counseling behind. Spiritual life coaching gives me the tools to help people return to that clarity — not by offering advice, but by holding space for the wisdom already moving through them.

What Is Living Wisdom?

Living wisdom doesn’t come from what I teach. It comes from what life teaches you — once you give yourself permission to listen.

My role is simple: I'm here to help you cultivate that permission.
Not because I have the answers.
But because I’ve walked through the fire of losing mine... and found my way back.

Permission is what creates the sacred space to remember who you are.
Pursuit is what emerges once you begin to trust that remembering.
Presence is brings them to life.

Permission guides you to the door, and tells you to open it.

Pursuit holds your hand as you walk through it.
Presence is what keeps you grounded once you arrive.

Together, we create the presence to explore both — permission and pursuit. That’s where your living wisdom begins to take shape.

What Is Ziran?

Ziran is an ancient Daoist term meaning “of itself, so.” It points to the way a tree grows or a river flows — freely, spontaneously, without force. It’s the essence of something that’s naturally, deeply, unshakably itself.

To live in your Ziran is to stop performing and start aligning.
It’s not about perfection.
It’s not about fixing yourself.
It’s about coming home to the center of who you already are.

The Ziran Life is about living from that place — where your nervous system feels safe, your soul feels seen, and your choices feel true.

What If You're Navigating a System?

A lot of people I work with are in some kind of transition — spiritual, relational, professional, or existential.
But beneath those surface shifts is usually something deeper:

A misalignment between your soul and the system you've been living inside.

Maybe it's religion.
Maybe it's military culture.
Maybe it's patriarchy, heteronormativity, corporate life, or a high-control group.

Whatever the system, you’ve started to feel it: that subtle (or not-so-subtle) inner rupture.
You’re trying to stay afloat in a structure that no longer feels like home.
Maybe you’re burning out. Maybe you’ve already burned down.
Maybe you’ve walked away... and now you’re wondering who you are without it.

Wherever you are, I’m here to walk with you.
Not to lead you toward my answers — but to help you trust your own.

Let’s Talk

If any of this resonates, you don’t need to figure it out alone.
Let’s have a conversation.
A real one — about what’s shifting in your life, what you long for, and what you already carry.

Click the button below to book a free consult.
No performance. No pressure. Just presence.