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 meaningful 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. As they fell away so did the foundation of my life. My faith, my work, my values, even my parenting choices. Everything I had built my identity around was suddenly in question.
I stayed in it as long as I could. Still showing up. Still performing life as normal while internally everything was shifting. I kept trying to hold the tension of what I had built while feeling like it all needed to change.
The cognitive dissonance suffocated me.
Then one night something shifted. Not because I figured it out. Not because I resolved the questions. But because I stopped fighting what was happening. I experienced something I still don't fully have language for. A sense of presence. Of clarity. Of being held by something bigger than the collapse I was in.
I went to bed one person and woke up another. It gave me back myself.
Since then I have been doing the work of rebuilding from the inside out. Not replacing one belief system with another but learning how to live in alignment with what is actually true for me.
I am a certified professional coach through iPEC with a degree in sociology and psychology. But more than any credential I know what it feels like when your life no longer fits. When you are functioning on the outside but unraveling on the inside. When you are not sure what is yours anymore.
Force to Flow exists for people in that space. People who are no longer willing to live a life that feels forced. People who are ready to rebuild something that actually fits who they are becoming.
If that is where you are this work is for you. If you are ready to close the gap between who you are and how you are living we can talk.
If this resonates, let's talk.