About Me

If you’re looking for a self-leadership, wellbeing, and relationship coach who will take the time and commit the loving attention to really listen with compassion and interest to what you’re saying out loud – and what your system is saying silently – we might be a match.

In addition to being educated as a biologist, I had to find my way with my own physical limitation owing to a hip disorder as a young person. By my mid-twenties I was so miserable – to others and to myself – that I knew I had to change my way of being if I was to ever feel joyous, whole, and worthwhile.

While I continued my life as a technical engineer, I began the journey to redefine myself and my behavior. Through my continuing interest in medicine and psychology, and thanks to the loving support of friends, I found a development path that saved me from my self-hatred.

In 2012, after decades in technical roles, I felt drawn back to my roots in biology, psychology, and the helping professions. That led me to a new round of self-development and the preparation necessary for my professional life today as a coach, facilitator, and resource.

My training is trauma aware, informed, and sensitive. My skills are rooted in Internal Family Systems (IFS), Psych-K, Nonviolent Communication (NVC), Polyvagal Theory (PVT), and related teachings. In addition to the Mindful Coach Association, I am an active member at the Institute of Coaching.

We were all born with the need for deep connection and the capacity for joyousness. In fact, as Dr. Gabor Maté and many others have frequently emphasized, we are born demanding to be noticed and attended to if we are to survive infancy. Then, once we are beyond infancy and into childhood, we are faced with the initial challenges of finding the balance that works for us among attachment (connection), authenticity (self-expression), and adventure (exploration). We learn about ourselves as individuals, and we figure out how to interact with the systems (family, neighborhood, locality, community, region, country, planet) in which we are embedded.

Now, as adults, we have the opportunity to correct the turmoils and heal the wounds that we could not attend to properly when we were young, and which still affect us all too often.

In a calm and safe setting, I can assist when you are done living in the distressing shadow of your past, when you want to experience life fully, and when you are committed to showing up whole, healed, capable, and authentic!

I encourage you to message me. I'm here to serve. Our first conversation is on me. All I ask is that you show up with an open and curious mind and the willingness to explore how you can develop.

Let's arrange a time to connect and see if my experience and skills line up with your goals and desires that bring you to this point in your journey.

Respectfully yours,

- Richard Tashma, Founder and Leader, Rocky Mountain Calm

{ Live - Grieve - Belong - Play - Thrive }

"Dare to be Calm" • Trauma-Informed coaching •  Skilled in IFS℠ and related methods • I help clients feel Heard and Whole!