Life Coach, Health Coach, and Ayurvedic Consultant Cyndi Marcotte Recently Featured on Close Up Radio
BEAVER COVE, ME, UNITED STATES, October 29, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ - Cynthia “Cyndi” Marcotte is a woman with many missions that all relate to her positive and compassionate nature. After nearly 35 years in nursing, she has spent much of her career helping people navigate some of life’s most difficult and uncertain moments. Over time, she became increasingly interested in the questions that come after the immediate crisis—questions about identity, purpose, values, change, and what comes next. While working as an Oncology Nurse she came to realize how people’s lives were totally blown over by a cancer diagnosis, yet they still needed help getting from point A to point B, setting goals, and finding both the physical and emotional strength to do it all. She has a gift for being fully present with her patients, listening deeply to both what was spoken and what remained unspoken. Today, she takes an integrative approach, drawing on her life coaching expertise, Ayurvedic knowledge, and Reiki practice to support each client’s individual needs and preferences. When people feel overwhelmed, stuck, or disconnected, she helps them cultivate practices to fix that, and to nurture vitality.
Cyndi is the founder of Spruce and Stone Life Coaching, LLC, a practice she established in 2025. It was named after the rural landscape where she lives in the north woods of Maine. Up there, vegetation surprisingly sprouts on boulders and stately spruce trees survive despite the harshest winter storms. It’s almost a metaphor for people living with health and life challenges; a sign of how we can bloom where we’re planted and cope with any curve ball thrown at us. While the formal coaching business is recent, she has been using some of these strategies as a leader and guide for patients and other clinical professionals for decades.
As a coach, Cyndi helps people utilize a variety of tools. These tools are founded using the Wayfinder approach which was created by Martha Beck. It is an approach that involves listening deeply, asking powerful questions, and supporting the client as they tap into their own inner wisdom, figure things out, and create the way forward.
Cyndi underwent Wayfinder training and is now a Certified Wayfinder Life Coach, a mark of excellence in the field. One of the many tools she utilizes is the Metaphor Tool. The Metaphor Tool helps clients approach painful, overwhelming, or emotionally charged experiences with greater safety and distance. The coach may ask, “If this situation were an animal, place, or object, what would it be?” Viewing an issue metaphorically allows the client to explore it from a different perspective without becoming emotionally flooded. The coach supports the client in investigating the metaphor’s sensory qualities, purpose, and messages. Questions such as “Why is this metaphor here?” or “What does it want you to know?” can help uncover deeper insight and understanding.
Her role is to create a safe space for people to discover what is true for them. Through the Wayfinder approach, she and the client become curious about what is working, what isn't working, what feels aligned, and what might be keeping someone stuck. They explore values, beliefs, patterns, strengths, and possibilities—and then identify small, meaningful steps forward. She works with individuals navigating things like career changes, burnout, life transitions, personal growth, and questions related to purpose and fulfillment.
Cyndi distinguishes her practice by offering every prospective client a complimentary discovery call and tailoring each coaching engagement to the individual’s needs, preferences, and lifestyle. She believes we all carry thoughts and fears that, over time, become stories shaping how we see ourselves and the world around us. Through life coaching, clients have the opportunity to examine these beliefs, challenge the narratives that no longer serve them, and discover new possibilities for growth. When clients are open to change, they can begin to release old, painful stories, embrace new perspectives, and move toward a life that feels more authentic, fulfilling, and aligned with who they truly are.
Cyndi reminds us that we were not meant to simply survive, but to thrive. She can help people find the way back to who they were meant to be. With her support, we can navigate life's transitions with greater clarity, courage, awareness and self-trust.
Close Up Radio recently featured Life Coach and Ayurvedic Consultant Cyndi Marcotte in an interview with Jim Masters on Tuesday October 27th at 1pm Eastern Listen to the Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/close-up-radio-spotlights-life-coach-health-coach and/id1785721253?i=1000798468014 https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-close-up-radio-242020413/episode/close-up-radio spotlights-life-coach-health-coach-and-ayurvedic-consultant-cyndi-marcotte-348590899/ https://open.spotify.com/episode/1w5FAM0iowDqeW53hOlAui For More Information visit https://sprucestonelifecoachingllc.com Lou Ceparano Close Up Television & Radi
Making Space for Loss, Grief, and Healing
Loss comes in many forms. The death of someone we love. The end of a relationship. A career that once defined us. An empty nest. A change in our health, our identity, or the future we imagined for ourselves.
Sometimes, we recognize our grief. Other times, we keep moving, staying busy, caring for others, and doing what needs to be done. We may not even realize how much we are carrying.
But grief deserves space. It doesn't follow a timeline, and healing doesn't mean forgetting or returning to who we were before. Sometimes, it means learning how to move forward while honoring what we've lost.
✨ This is where life coaching can help.
Through compassionate conversation, reflection, and intentional exploration, coaching offers a space to pause, acknowledge what has changed, reconnect with what matters most, and begin to discover what comes next.
You don't have to have all the answers. You don't have to know your next step. You simply need a place where you can show up as you are, without judgment or expectation.
At Spruce & Stone Life Coaching, I believe that even in seasons of loss and uncertainty, there is room for healing, growth, and new possibilities. Not by rushing the process, but by meeting yourself with compassion and taking one small, meaningful step at a time.
💚 You can honor what was while gently making room for what might be.
If you find yourself navigating a season of change, loss, or uncertainty, you don't have to figure it all out alone.
🌿 Sometimes, the next chapter begins with simply giving yourself permission to pause.
Perfectly Imperfect: Rewriting the Stories We Tell Ourselves
One of my intentions for 2026 has been to do scary things. To step outside my comfort zone. To say yes to experiences that challenge me, even when that little voice inside whispers, “You can’t do that.”
Recently, I took a class to make a Maine potato basket. And let me tell you, I walked in knowing absolutely NOTHING about basket making.
But this experience was about so much more than making a basket.
Early in life, we receive messages that we begin to weave into our identities as truth. For me, one of those messages was that I couldn't color outside the lines. When I did, I was shamed and sent to stand in the corner of the classroom.
The message stuck.
I am not artistic was the story.
For years, that story became part of how I saw myself. It became a limitation I carried without questioning whether it was actually true.
But what if we could choose to tell ourselves a different story?
What if we could loosen the grip of those old messages and make room for something new?
So, I showed up to that basket-making class. I was uncomfortable. I had zero confidence in my abilities. I could have let that discomfort convince me to stay home, but instead, I leaned in. I came with an open mind and a willingness to learn.
And something beautiful happened.
As I let go of the need to be good at something, I also began to let go of some of my defensive armor. I met a community of basket makers who were among the kindest, most encouraging, and supportive people. I was reminded that we don't have to be experts to belong. We don't have to be perfect to create something meaningful. And we don't have to prove ourselves to be worthy of showing up.
Now, my basket is far from perfect. I'm sure there are plenty of people who could point out my mistakes!
But I LOVE my basket.
It is perfectly imperfect. And every little flaw reminds me that I was brave enough to try something new, challenge an old belief, and rewrite a story that no longer serves me.
This is the work we do in life coaching, too. We examine the stories we've been telling ourselves, get curious about where they came from, and begin to choose stories that empower us rather than hold us back.
We don't have to erase our past to change our future. Sometimes, we simply need to pick up a new thread and begin weaving a different story.
A reflection on one of my favorite quotes.
“I’ve found that the changes I feared would ruin me have always become doorways, and on the other side I have found a more courageous and graceful self.” Elizabeth Lesser.
I return to these words often.
Because change rarely arrives when we feel completely ready for it. Sometimes it arrives as loss. Sometimes as an ending. Sometimes as a quiet realization that the life we’ve built no longer feels quite like our own.
And if we’re honest, the uncertainty can be frightening.
But what if the change we’re resisting isn’t here to ruin us?
What if it’s a doorway?
A doorway into something we couldn’t have imagined from where we were standing.
A deeper understanding of ourselves.
A clearer sense of what matters.
The courage to choose differently.
The grace to let go of what no longer fits.
I’ve experienced this in my own life, and it is a big part of why I became a life coach.
I don’t believe we need to have the entire path figured out. Sometimes we simply need the courage to open the door and take the next small step.
✨ What if the next chapter of your life is waiting on the other side of a change you’re afraid to make?
Leaning into Imperfection
For more than 35 years as a nurse, I worked in a world where precision mattered. Every medication, every assessment, every decision carried immense weight. There were policies, procedures, and checklists for nearly everything because the stakes were high. There was very little room for error.
Every summer, I give myself a permission slip to be wildly imperfect with my vegetable garden.
My vegetable garden doesn't care if my rows are perfectly straight or if my planting strategy is a little haphazard. It's messy...really messy. It's imprecise. It's wonderfully freeing.
And here's the beautiful part: nature already knows what to do.
In spite of my imperfect gardening, the seeds grow, the bees find the flowers, and the garden generously offers an abundance of fresh vegetables. It's a gentle reminder that not everything beautiful requires perfection. Sometimes growth happens because we stop trying to control every outcome and simply create the conditions for life to flourish.
Where in your life could you give yourself permission to be a little less perfect and a little more authentic?
When Progress Feels Slow
When progress feels painfully slow…
Have you ever known you’re ready for something to change, yet your life seems to be moving at a snail’s pace?
You’ve done the reflection.
You’ve made the plans.
You’ve taken the steps.
And still… nothing seems to be happening fast enough.
That space between where you are and where you want to be can be incredibly frustrating.
But sometimes, what feels like stuckness isn’t actually a lack of progress.
Sometimes things are shifting beneath the surface.
A new perspective is forming.
A belief is changing.
You’re becoming clearer about what you want—and what you no longer want.
You’re gathering the courage for the next step.
Ground yourself in where you are today.
Take a breath. Spend time in nature. Come back to what you do know. Let go, just for a moment, of the pressure to have the entire path figured out.
Then ask yourself:
What is the next right step—not the whole plan, just the next step?
You don't have to force your way forward.
You don't have to figure everything out today.
And you don't have to measure your progress by how quickly your life changes.
Sometimes progress is simply staying curious.
And when you truly feel stuck, you don't have to work through it alone.
Life coaching can help you get unstuck, gain clarity, reconnect with what matters, and discover a path forward that feels authentically yours.
At Spruce & Stone Life Coaching, we create space to slow down, listen inward, and discover what comes next.
Trust the next step. You don't need to see the whole path
