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Q.   I've heard so many conflicting religion-based stories.   
       How can they all be right?

They Can't!   Look at this question from the perspective that every one of us has a vision of the truth, but none of us has the complete truth.  We  get into trouble when we claim our piece of the truth is the complete and only truth.

We become like the three blind men in the Sufi story about examining an elephant.  One blind man, while touching the elephant's side, declared that an elephant was like a wall.  The second touching its leg, declared an elephant was like a tree, and the third blind man, while holding on to it's tail declared an elephant was like a snake.

All three were correct, and, at the same time, all three had very distorted perspectives of an elephant.  The significance here is not in what each blind man  said about the elephant. it's in what they didn't say.   Commonly, human distortions  stems from experiencing a small portion of the truth and then proclaiming that that very small and limited portion of the truth is the whole truth.

If you continued this elephant analogy, you could probably come up with several dozen more equally limiting ways to describe an elephant.  When you substitute God for elephants in this analogy, the possibilities become infinite.

This leads us to an obvious conclusion:  "Any god that fits  inside of only one religion has to be an incomplete god."    As Shakespeare put it:  "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your
philosophy."    

Readers are invited to the page titled: Spiritual Awareness.^°  

Q.   Because your coaching process touches some core
        spiritual principles, I'm compelled to ask:  Will
        coaching sessions may weaken my religious faith?

Absolutely not!   Regardless of what religion you presently practice, if you are secure in your belief that:  
      1) there is a divine creator, 
      2) that we are each a vital part of that creation and 
      3) that we live beyond the demise of our physical bodies, 
then your faith will be strengthened by allowing your mind to participate in your religious faith.

When head and heart are combined, your religious faith becomes a co-created adventure of love, trust, truth, and wisdom all neatly combined into the physical form you see when you look into a mirror.   That's an unshakable combination.   

Social Structures:   The outward structure and expression of you faith may change.   With expanded awareness, one's connection to source becomes internal and as Martin Luther declared in 1517:  "You can connect directly to God.  Need for and dependency upon the church is unnecessary."  You may still participate in your present church services but you'll do so from a space of honor, respect, humility, and gratitude and not from servitude or victim consciousness.

While lies and illusions fall apart under close examination, the truth is strengthened by being questioned and challenged to prove itself.    Your inner knowing and your connection to the timeless, universal truths will be strengthened.  

Religion as it is currently structured, is an intermittent event experienced in the external world.   In  contrast, spirituality  is a personal, internal;moment- by-moment, continuous, 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week  experience.