Sean Barnett shares His Unique and Interesting Life and Helping the Homeless
Sean Barnett has been an athletic coach for over 13 years, mainly baseball and football. Over the past couple of years, he has\xa0become one of the most sought after private pitching and hitting coaches in Utah, with a waiting list of dozens of players. He is also an ex-homeless person, ex-drug addict, and ex-con. His experiences in that world led him to his mother-in-law who is a true pioneer in the addiction recovery field. \xa0He\xa0ended up working with her for years,and she served as his\xa0mentor for understanding how to support people through recovery from addiction. He\xa0has been a voracious student of self-improvement, even during my dark days. So I parlayed all of my knowledge and experience and went through a life-coaching certification program at Clarity Point Coaching here in Salt Lake. He\xa0now has a full practice of clients that come to me for self-improvement. My specialty is helping people discover that any suffering is simply a resistance to truth. Some foundational precepts that are included in this work are that you can only be in trust or fear at any given moment, your life is the result of your rituals, life is a classroom, not a test, etc. Last October, he\xa0was sitting in a meditation and saw the thought go by, \u201cwhat would I do if I had all the money in the world.\u201d The answer that popped out was\u201dteach the homeless.\u201d No sooner had I had the thought then something behind him whispered, \u201cDo It.\u201d This led to a crazy set of synchronistic events that resulted in the creation of Eudaemonia. His idea is that when we try to do something for someone that they can do for themselves, we actually reinforce a belief that they are weak\u2026so we make them weaker. A lot of what we have built is based on the give a man a fish clich\xe9\u2019 (which I have since altered).