My Story
The cognitive dissonance suffocated me.
Then one night something shifted.

Zachary Leal, CPC
Spiritual Integration Coach
I spent nearly a decade helping people find God.
I led worship. I coached people through prayer. I sat with people in some of the most profound moments of their lives and watched something real happen. But privately I was falling apart. The beliefs I had grown up with started loosening. One question at a time. And I couldn't stop asking them.
Days went by as my beliefs fell away and I started losing what felt like my very foundation. Everything my life centered on — my faith, my job, my values, my parenting choices — was now in question.
It was a hard place to be. Holding the tension of what I had built while feeling like it all needed to change. I kept performing life as it was despite my inner world shifting significantly.
The cognitive dissonance suffocated me.
Then one night something shifted. I wasn't looking for it. I surrendered into something I still can't fully put into words. A sense of presence. Of oneness. Of being held by something vast and alive. I went to bed one person and woke up another. It gave me back myself.
Since then I have been doing the work of integration. Mining different wisdom traditions for the universal truths running through all of them. Rebuilding my inner life from the inside out. Actively creating a life I actually chose rather than one I inherited or performed.
I am a certified professional coach through iPEC with a degree in sociology and psychology and a decade of experience in spiritual coaching, faith-based facilitation, and communications. More than any credential though, I know what it feels like to be spiritually awake and practically lost. If you have walked away from a framework that used to define you and you are trying to figure out who you are without it, you are exactly who this is for.
You were never meant to force it.
If this resonates, let's talk.
