Personal Discovery with Michelle Barr

[Episode 7] Dr. Michelle Barr is a successful Spiritual and Transformational Coach & Consultant who helps people turn their hobbies and passions into profitable businesses. With a Doctorate in Transformational Spiritual Coaching and a Masters in Counseling and Guidance, Michelle has been helping people transform their lives for more than 25 years. Ten of those years were spent as a therapist specializing in crisis and trauma before giving up her license to build her business as a coach, teacher, and speaker. And for the past 15 years she has been helping her clients create the life they are striving to achieve. Listen as Michelle takes us back to a very difficult time in her life where she was in a toxic relationship, her best friend was dying of cancer, and she had a real awakening that inspired her to “clear a path to her soul” as she puts it.


Episode Book Pairing

Each episode the The Gray Matters podcast is paired with a book that complements the episode’s subject matter or simply had an impact on our guest’s life and journey.

Zero Limits

by Joe Vitale

There are more than 6 billion different manifestations of human existence on the planet?and only one of us here. In Zero Limits, Vitale has captured the truth that all great spiritual, scientific, and psychological principles teach at the most fundamental level. Boil it all down to the basics and the keys are quite simple – the answer to all life’s challenges is profound love and gratitude. Read this book; it’s a reminder of the truth and ability you already possess.
-James Arthur Ray, philosopher and bestselling author of Practical Spirituality and The Science of Success

Get your copy of Zero Limits from Bookshop.org.


About Michelle Barr

With a Doctorate in Transformational Spiritual Coaching and a Masters Degree in Counseling and Guidance, she has been helping people transform their lives for more than 25 years. She spent ten years as a therapist specializing in crisis and trauma before giving up her license to build her business as a coach, teacher, and speaker. 

 While working as a therapist, Dr. Barr specialized in crisis and trauma, addiction and abuse, generational dysfunctions, and personal growth and development. She went on to attend seminary, becoming ordained as an interfaith minister, and worked as a hospital and hospice chaplain, as well as a spiritual director for multiple local agencies. 

 Fifteen years ago, she left her therapy practice behind to found her own healing and wellness center in her community, which quickly turned into a global online business. Through The Barr Institute, Dr. Barr helps others both personally and professionally to heal and transform all areas of their lives, then go on to help others do the same. Dr. Barr believes healing should always be able to be replicated.

Michelle is the Founder and Creator of the Barr Institute. Through her coaching and training, her programs and classes, her retreats and masterminds, she provides a high level of support and guidance, empowering her clients to create the work and life they desire and resolve all that is getting in the way, so they can show up in the world with clarity and confidence and deliver their soul work to those who are waiting for it.


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