Meet Transformational Life Coach and Founder of Pathways in Joy
Pauline Tsukamoto
“My passion is to help you
follow your guiding light,
to realize all that you are
and can be to live
your life purpose
fully out in the world.“
Introduction: My Journey to Transformation
Hello, my name is Pauline Tsukamoto, and I am a Transformational Life Coach living in Japan. I am originally from England and the founder of Pathways in Joy, a life coaching practice born from my own personal healing journey. Through this path, I help individuals achieve inner transformation and personal growth, empowering them to live fulfilling lives.
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A Life of Learning and Transformation: My Story
Arriving in Japan: A Life-Changing Adventure
In the summer of 1967, I arrived at Yokohama Port, a twenty–two year old girl with limited knowledge of Japan, and only three images in my pocket. I carried a backpack filled with an unconscious paradigm that would soon be challenged and transformed. Over the past 50+ years, Japan has pushed me to reinvent myself, leading me through a journey of growth, healing, and ultimately a transformational perspective shift. This new shifted inner vision let me see Japan, myself, and reality itself, in far more expansive and joy filled ways.
The Journey of Personal Growth and Healing
My life’s road to joy started with challenges, beginning with a traumatic birth that set the stage for a life lived on fast forward accentuated by heightened sensitivities. Growing up in the the rigid societal structure of post-war England in the 1940s, I encountered class issues and socio-economic contrasts. At 12, I experienced a significant shift in my life when my wealthy godparents made a proposal to my mother. Her acceptance brought about a move to a much more affluent lifestyle living in a house built for my family next door to theirs.
It was all such a long way from our former caravan life by the sea. Large detached residences with croquet lawns and tennis courts. Extravagant parties with elegant guests, and fancy cars directed by attendants. I wanted to belong to this new world. It was there that I felt the urge to transcend my “station in life” and seek a greater reality, and this became my guiding light. Ever decision I made from that realization onward was in pursuit of that light like the beacon which it had become.
Healing and Transformation Through Life’s Challenges
Finding My Purpose: Travels and Self-Discovery
I left England at 18 and ventured to Italy to work as an au pair. Italy was a very different cultural experience. I remember vividly the church bells ringing in each new day, the hills in the morning sunshine, cycling through the olive groves, the sound and songs of bel canto, the religious devotions in the church, and of course the wine and delicious food. After the year ended I went to Switzerland for language studies at a school in Lausanne. So many vivid memories of sitting in front of the lovely Lake Leman doing my homework in the afternoons, living in a Catholic hostel for young women, and having friends from several countries. My world was growing. These experiences broadened my worldview and deepened my desire to understand my true self. Through these cultural experiences, I also learned about the bittersweetness of life.
Life in Japan: The Start of a New Chapter
While in Milan I met the man who would become my husband. In 1967, at age 22, I followed him to Japan. This marked the beginning of a life-altering journey filled with challenges and gifts. The experience of becoming a young mother triggered a tsunami of emotions which was tied to my own birth and my relationship with my mother. Every moment of my life experience was amplified, accentuated, and transformed. Memories of my earliest times held tightly in my mind and body brought a challenge into my thinking and feeling. The transformation of this inner and outer world that was brought to life then would become an ongoing adventure guided by that something ‘more’, and the greater reality. This period became a profound time of personal growth, where I began to rewrite my personal paradigm.
The Path to Transformation: Finding Peace and Inner Freedom
Overcoming Life’s Deepest Struggles
In my mid-fifties, a time when the body is in a process of considerable change, I faced a significant psycho-physical challenge that lasted two decades. I see it now as a ‘rite of passage’. A test that was my whole life in the making. I developed a rarely triggered throat reflex which brought fear and resistance to drinking. My nerves and neurons were living a different story one revealing a deep discord in nature’s design. After all drinking is fundamental in both the doing of, and its necessity to survive. The struggle would become a messenger. The healing journey taking me on a slow yet steady path of awakening. Automatic writing and journalling became important tools to support this process. I was required see the world – and myself – through a new lens, with a heart more in mind and body and resulting in a major inner transformation.
From Survivor to Thriver: The Power of Healing
Through these challenges, I transitioned from simply surviving to thriving, and I developed a new paradigm for personal growth. This led to my work as a Life Coach and the creation of Pathways in Joy, a practice dedicated to helping others transform their challenges into opportunities for healing, growth, and empowerment.
Pathways in Joy: Empowering Others Through Transformation
Certified Life Coach: My Approach to Healing and Personal Growth
I traveled throughout the years in search of healing, growth, experiences and knowledge. I have studied and integrated a variety of techniques into my practice, including Life Coaching, Law of Attraction, Positive EFT, and teachings from Eckhart Tolle. Decades ago I began to share my knowledge and experiences, how I was growing, and what I was learning, through workshops and presentations. My healing philosophy is rooted in the belief that true transformation begins with a change in the inner world, which then affects the outer world.
Personalized Coaching for Your Unique Journey
I found myself through these years and their challenges. I became aware of the deeper part of me, and a greater reality. I absorbed my experiences and distilled them into my greatest lessons. My self awareness has sprouted so many new ways of thinking and being. So many gifts I am often joyfully amazed. I believe in a personalized approach to healing, understanding that everyone’s journey is unique. My coaching integrates my greatest lessons, intuition, guided healing, and contemplative meditation, helping clients tap into their highest potential and transform their lives from the inside out. No two individuals are alike, and as a highly sensitive person myself, I understand the courage it takes to make lasting changes. I dreamt of helping people like myself achieve a fuller, richer, safer life, living from their purpose, and now I am living that dream.
Living My Dream: Helping Others Live Their Greatest Reality
Embracing My Greater Reality
Through my journey of self-discovery, I have found my true purpose in life: to help others achieve their fullest potential and live a life aligned with their true purpose. I am grateful for the rocky road I’ve traveled, filled with both challenges and triumphs, it has led me to who I am now, and this joyful reality. Now, I am living my dream of helping others experience their own transformations through deep, personal healing and self-awareness.
Get In Touch: Let’s Start Your Journey Together
If you’re ready to embark on your own path of transformation, or if you simply want to learn more about my work, I invite you to connect with me. Let’s explore how we can work together to bring joy, peace, and empowerment into your life.
Thank you for taking the time to read my story. I look forward to connecting with you soon.
Go well
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More About My Passion
My passion is to help you follow your guiding light, to realize all that you are and can be, so to live your life purpose fully out in the world. PATHWAYS IN JOY is about vision, transformation and receiving the challenges of life with a wiser mind. It is about living in the light. The first step to walking in our own sunlight is to be aware. To see that we are a presence of both form and feeling, and to know that within the folds of this truth rests a self that embodies the miracle and mystery of existence.
In nurturing this gift of life through moments of stillness, contemplation, when we express our essence or when we receive the breath present to the moment, we build a relationship with the source of our being, the source of our wisdom. Guided by our essence expressed in the integrity of our person we walk a pathway in joy.