ABOUT
Established in May 2021, Toya L. Bligen created New Ascensions out of necessity to ensure a greater focus on whole-person well-being in ways that extend beyond traditional career coaching. Far too often, people are conditioned to believe they must balance work and life without recognizing that work is life and inevitably intersects with personal well-being. A holistic approach is used to explore how various areas of life influence the whole person and shape overall wellness. Through the ASCENSIONS framework, clients are supported in identifying and developing self-contained tools and resources that strengthen awareness, resilience, and intentional living. Wellness is viewed as an ongoing process of reflection, growth, and purposeful choice.
Toya L. Bligen, MSAIB, MHRM, MHRD, PCC, CWP
Founder and Sole-Proprietor
"My approach to whole-person coaching fosters an alliance that nurtures the mind, body and spirit, and considers the individual and environment."
Wellness is the experience of living life with high levels of awareness, conscious choice, self-acceptance, interconnectedness, love, meaning, and purpose. Wellness is the individual's life journey (and our society's larger task) of taking Abraham Maslow's concept of Self-Actualization and applying it to mind, body, spirit and our interconnectedness with other people and our environment. -Don Arnell
As the founder of New Ascensions Coaching, Toya Bligen views wellness as far more than physical health or temporary self-care practices. Wellness is understood as an ongoing process of becoming more aware of how thoughts, behaviors, environments, relationships, and experiences shape daily life and overall well-being. Coaching support is grounded in the ASCENSIONS model, which explores dimensions of life such as Attitude, Career, Inner Health, Social Connections, Origin Story, and Navigation & Next Steps.
Each dimension recognizes that people do not experience life in isolated compartments. Professional stress can influence emotional wellness, personal experiences can shape confidence and decision-making, and unresolved patterns can affect relationships and growth over time. Coaching conversations are designed to help clients slow down long enough to recognize patterns that may have become automatic or unnoticed. Greater awareness often reveals habits, beliefs, and responses that no longer support the life a person desires to create. Through reflective coaching, clients are encouraged to develop practical internal tools, strengthen self-awareness, and make more intentional choices that support sustainable growth, resilience, and whole-person wellness.
Wellness coaching...is an alliance between a professional coach and a person (or persons) who, through the benefit of that relationship, seeks lasting, lifestyle behavioral change. -Don Arnell
New Ascensions Coaching works with clients who are striving to function at a higher level but recognize that stress, routines, environments, and life demands can gradually pull them away from themselves. Coaching conversations are designed to help clients identify what is draining their energy, disrupting their focus, or creating barriers to the life they want to experience. Coaching partnerships are tailored to the client’s values, lived experiences, and personal goals rather than rigid, one-size-fits-all methods. Clients are encouraged to examine patterns, challenge limiting narratives, and develop practical strategies that can be applied in everyday life. Meaningful change often begins with the willingness to pause, reflect, and take the first intentional step toward a healthier and more fulfilling way of living.
