Kathleen Noone Starts Over
Soap Opera Weekly: In addition to your acting accomplishments, I know that you also hold an advanced degree in spiritual counseling. Will you be doing more with that now?
Kathleen Noone: Maybe. I certainly will have more time to do it now than I did before, and I enjoy being of service to people and helping them, and I love the field.
Weekly: Can you give an overview of what you do exactly as a counselor?
Noone: I do “Life Coaching,” which is for people who are facing particular transitions in their lives, like people entering the entertainment business, because that’s the one I’m most familiar with. I help them map out their changes and see what blocks are coming up of their own creation. We can’t control things outside of ourselves, but we certainly can have dominion over how we approach our challenges. What I try to do is make sure everyone is clear and healthy and approaching their problems in the right frame of mind and make what their vision is happen, to the best of their ability. And find out where their blocks are that are preventing them from doing it. Usually it’s old patterning — some voice inside telling them that they can’t do it.
Weekly: Like fears of success or fears of failure?
Noone: Yes, because there’s both — they go hand-in-hand, usually. It’s really quite interesting. In our society we have a tendency to think about what is the worst that could happen, rather than what it would be if you could imagine the best of who you are. What would that look like to you? And to begin living in that place more, and to begin constructively building your life to create that — on physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels.
Weekly: It sounds like creating a positive self-fulfilling prophecy in a sense.
Noone: In many ways it is. But first you have to find out what the vision is. One of the things I’ve always said that was one of the most important things a person could have, regardless of what career they’re choosing, is focus. In other words, find out what it is you really want.
Weekly: Get to know yourself…
Noone: Yes! And once you see that vision. Now, you can make adjustments along the way.
Weekly: With how frenetic and fast-paced our society is now, most people probably don’t spend the time to think that through.
Noone: They let life happen to them, rather than having a hand in it with life. Certain things you can’t predict — illnesses, death, downsizing of a company. But it doesn’t mean that your skills are any the less. And whatever skills you used in whatever profession you were in, can certainly translate to other things. It’s just a question of finding out what those other things are, and maybe finding out, at least for some people, what they’ve always wanted to do but never did. We’ve got a brain here — we’ve got to use it. It’s the idea of really beginning to THINK your way through your problem solving — and with tools. So when you come up against a block, you say, “Okay, this is the way you’ve been looking at it for the past 10, 15, 20 years. What’s another way we can look at this now?” And begin to create your new life, in a new way, with a new paradigm of thinking.
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