I didn’t enter this profession simply because it was fun for me or by chance, but out of a deep calling from my life journey and the suffering I’ve endured to help others.
Hi, I’m Daniel Moor, a life coach and therapist from Tel Aviv, and I want to share my story with you here.
:Past Life Memories
From a young age, I had a feeling that there was something greater in these lives than what appeared to me. Even at the age of two, I remember feeling a kind of sensation that I knew my parents and the people around me from past lives, that we are all somehow connected together, and that I have a significant role to play in the world, where I would help many people and be a light for them.
I remember I actually saw this, and it was clear to me.
And these feelings became much clearer to me along the way as I grew older.
My childhood trauma:
I grew up with lovely parents in North Tel Aviv, with an interest in spirituality themselves. They gave me unconditional love from a young age that I appreciate to this day, and of course they also had various traumas that passed through them to me.
My mother mainly suffered from great anxiety, which affected me a lot as a child, and my father was also busy with his fears around livelihood and difficulties with low self-worth.
But there was one significant period in my life that changed them completely and that was when at the age of 4-5 I entered a compulsory kindergarten before elementary school and experienced sexual abuse by one of the kindergarteners there.
On the one hand, I adored him, and I even enjoyed this attention at a time when my lovely little sister Carmel was born and received the attention at home, and on the other hand, I suffered a lot from what he did to me, I felt confusion, anger, fear of him and disgust and shame of myself.
This event changed the entire course of my life, and I have never been the same child again.
My School Years and My Struggles with Depression and Suicidal Thoughts:
I was a very quiet child, so I didn’t tell anyone about what I went through, partly because that man threatened me not to.
Magically and brilliantly, I repressed the entire experience and completely forgot about it, and I remember elementary school as an overall pleasant and good time. I did have difficulties and insecurities and pains from what I went through, but I enjoyed it a lot and made good friendships.
When I got to middle school, everything felt different. I felt very insecure being with all the new kids, some of whom seemed more mature and experienced than me because I was very naïve. Because of what I went through, I also had a huge fear surrounding sexuality, which troubled me a lot at that age (even though I didn’t understand the reason for that fear back then).
That year, a girl who I thought was the most beautiful girl in my class, and who I sat next to, wrote me a note with a smile that said, “You’re ugly.”
I was so insecure, and I wanted her so much that this message shattered all my confidence completely, and probably subconsciously brought me back to the pain I experienced as a child.
With those two words, I sank into deep depression and helplessness. I hated myself, felt insecure, and suddenly became a very, very quiet teenager despite having been quite vocal until then.
Out of shame, I also didn’t tell anyone how I felt, and I hid my depressive mood from my family at home and my friends, dealing with it alone.
I thought a lot about ending my life and hated going to school.
This depression continued in ups and downs until the beginning of 11th grade, where I underwent a change.
A Change in Life Path:
When I started 11th grade, I made a decision that changed my life.
I looked at my life as I was living it and realized that I would never reach the goals I wanted or fulfill myself this way.
I really wanted a girlfriend—but I had no experience with girls and was afraid of them.
At that time, I also wanted financial success later in life—but I was a student with grades around 70 and didn’t believe much in my abilities.
When these realizations sank in, I decided to change everything.
I started learning how to talk to girls and approach them, as well as how to change my beliefs and build self-love and confidence.
I used those insights to create a new, rebellious identity and beliefs where I love myself, believe in myself, and don’t care what anyone thinks of me.
I studied very hard to succeed academically, learned to be vocal, a bit cheeky, and arrogant, and instead of thinking I was beneath others, I thought I was above everyone.
And indeed, there were results—I succeeded greatly with girls, and eventually entered into a relationship with Granit, an amazing woman who has been my partner to this day (love at first sight ❤️). In my studies, I completed my matriculation exams that year, scoring above 95 in all the tests, most of which were 100.
I felt on top of the world, high and happy, believing I was a king who was better than everyone and capable of anything, but there was a price I paid for it.
The return of depression and suicidal thoughts:
I accomplished all my goals, then I asked myself, what now?
And I couldn’t ignore the feeling of emptiness and meaninglessness that filled me.
I suddenly realized that everything I aspired to achieve was meaningless, and that the joy I was looking for through these achievements did not really make me happy.
Everything seemed pointless to me, and I regretted the person I had become, a person who had become bad to others, selfish and lacking in humanity and integrity.
I began to doubt everything and ask myself questions trying to understand what the meaning of this life is, and do I have a chance for happiness? Or am I always meant to experience suffering and I’m just genetically a pessimistic person?
And with these thoughts, I went into a deep depression.
The Birth of “Happy No Matter What”:
At that time, I decided I wanted to be happy from within, unconditional happiness, and I embarked on a journey to achieve that. From a young age, I knew that joy was the most important thing in life, that it was what we desired most, but I always sought it through achievements and in the outside world.
However, during this period, at age 17, at the beginning of 12th grade, I realized that the happiness I was looking for could only be found within, and there was no other way.
I was in depression, feeling desperate to find that joy by any means possible. I knew it was possible because I remembered moments from my past when I experienced it, and I started searching in every direction for how to find it again.
That was when I embarked on an amazing journey that has continued with me to this day—the journey to be happy no matter what.
I tried everything I could. I started therapy with a wonderful psychologist named Yoel, learned meditation and yoga, and read many books on spirituality, psychology, philosophy, and personal development.
Oh, and there was one book and one person that I felt influenced me more than anything else: that person is “Don Miguel Ruiz,” and his book “The Four Agreements.”
This book influenced me so much that I learned everything I could about Don Miguel Ruiz and his teachings of the Toltec tradition.
During the gap period between high school and my military service, and throughout my entire military service, I read all his books, all the books written by his children and students, and watched every available video on YouTube and anything I could find about him.
His books helped me find a new perspective on life—loving, joyful, and happy—and they painted the map for me on how I could find the joy and inner freedom that I so desired and sought. I couldn’t ask for more.
Thanks to his books, meditation, and the therapy I underwent, after a year, I had already emerged from the depths of depression. I still didn’t feel happy, and I experienced a range of challenges within myself, but my situation was much better.
There was one central thing I felt I was missing:
While the books and theories I learned helped, I didn’t understand how to truly apply them. I felt I needed a clearer “step-by-step” map of how I could actually create the changes I wanted. I wanted someone experienced, who had found joy and inner freedom, to explain to me what to do and perhaps guide me individually regarding the various challenges in my life that I needed help with.
While my therapist helped me a lot and was excellent, I didn’t feel at that stage that he could assist me with the next step in my development regarding the challenges I was facing, so I searched for a new mentor to guide me.
That’s when I found my mentor and spiritual teacher, Gary.
The Teacher Who Changed My Life:
On the first day of the army, I felt miserable and anxious.
I lay in bed with the 12 new recruits who were with me, and when they turned off the lights to sleep, I desperately sought help.
So I googled and wanted to find someone who could teach me one-on-one how to apply Miguel’s teachings, and there I found the website of my spiritual teacher, Gary, who became the person who influenced my life more than anyone else.
Gary had been a student of Miguel for 10 years and studied with him in depth. He had a course and a book that taught how to make the changes I was seeking in a way that was more practical and applicable for me.
During various guard duties in basic training, I secretly looked at my phone and read the articles on his website, which helped me find new perspectives on my challenges and even laugh at them lovingly and sometimes find inner acceptance with them (by the way, it’s important to say that I was a support soldier and didn’t suffer from such tough military life 😆).
Throughout my service, I carried Gary’s book around, and everyone recognized me through it and joked about me as “the guy with the white book,” as one does in the army, of course 🙂.
I read it endlessly and applied the exercises in it, taking this practice very seriously as a tool to help me find the joy and inner freedom I was looking for, and his book helped me immensely!
There were even one or two instances where I wrote him a question in Facebook chat, and he replied, which for me was very exciting at that time.
After a year in the army, I was discharged due to a mental crisis I went through, and I took a short trip that significantly impacted me for two weeks in the U.S. with my aunt and grandparents.
It was a really fun and wonderful trip.
However, I experienced a lot of anxiety and inner difficulties during it that reminded me that just because I was discharged from the army didn’t mean my problems were over, and that I had a lot more work to do on myself.
This trip encouraged me to persist more in my spiritual practice, and from there I registered for Gary’s digital course called “Be Your Own Master,” and not long after, I started doing one-on-one sessions with him.
Spiritual Depth and a Life of Peace and Inner Freedom:
The sessions with Gary and his course changed my life. Session after session, we began to peel away layers of limiting beliefs, fears, and traumas that had held me back in life. Between 2019 and 2022, three years of sessions with him transformed me, healed a lot, and I became a completely different person.
The theory I read about in Don Miguel Ruiz’s books began to become a reality for me, and my perception of myself and the world looked completely different.
Along the way, I also delved into Zen studies with an American Zen teacher named “Alex Mill,” who had spent 14 years in a monastery, and working with him between 2020 and 2023, I learned a lot about the Zen way of making inner changes, living in the moment, and freeing myself from the limitations that the conditioning we developed throughout our lives places on us.
In 2021, I went to my first shamanic retreat with Gary in Toltitlan, Mexico (the meaning of the place in Hebrew translation: “the place where humans remember their divinity”), and I experienced magical and spiritual experiences that once again completely changed my perception of the world.
Cosmic experiences that didn’t align with my scientific and logical background and how I perceived the way the world worked until then (you can hear about these experiences more in my podcast “Happy No Matter What”).
During this time, starting in 2020, I also began to practice therapy, learned to guide meditation, and started conducting sessions for people using the approaches I learned from Gary and Alex.
Spiritual Magic, Shamanism, and Trauma Healing:
In 2022, there was another moment that reshuffled the cards in my life.
When I returned from my first retreat in Toltitlan, Mexico, at the end of 2021, my mind was completely quiet from thoughts, and I felt that I had completely shattered the belief system that had held me back.
But there was still anxiety in the background that didn’t cease—a strong, irrational anxiety with no story or thoughts.
When I brought this to Gary during a deep session we had, suddenly I remembered the sexual abuse I had experienced as a child at age 4, which I had repressed until then, and that changed my life entirely.
I embarked on a journey of deep healing.
I worked intensively to heal that trauma, and 2022 was a pretty dark year in my life, filled with a lot of challenging and difficult healing.
During that time, from the journey I went through with myself, I enrolled in trauma therapy studies in the “Compassionate Inquiry” approach of Dr. Gabor Maté, which greatly influenced and contributed to my healing journey.
At the end of that year, I returned again to Toltitlan, Mexico, for a retreat with Gary, which was a turning point for me in that dark year.
For an entire week, I experienced deep, healing, and sometimes very mystical experiences that helped me heal much of the trauma I carried. I cried and released a lot, and at the end of the retreat, I felt reborn as a new person, filled with love, light, and joy to give.
I still think of that moment as the point where I learned to be happy no matter what.
Because since then, I have been much happier than I have suffered in my daily life.
I also want to give a word of thanks to Riki Kalash, who practices “Energetic Cleansing” (the approach of Dr. Nader Butto), who also helped me a lot with healing my trauma through sessions with her that were very significant for me.
Reincarnation and Remembering My Soul Journey in This World:
Later that year, 2022, I also had some very significant recollections in my life.
Because that year, I was exposed for the first time through direct experience to a past life of mine as a soul, and I saw how this past life connected directly to the life I am living today (the topic of reincarnation was something I had been very skeptical about until that time).
Suddenly, I understood why I had gone through the trauma I experienced, and I remembered that my soul chose this as part of my broader journey to develop and grow.
The amazing thing is, despite my skepticism, I saw how these memories changed me as a person, changed my feelings in daily life, my emotions and thoughts, and deepened my sense of meaning in life.
This recollection continues to this day, as since then I have been exposed to many more of my past lives.
I understood that I came to this world out of a conscious choice to experience deep darkness and pain, and to emerge from it towards the light, so that, from that deep knowledge of darkness, I would better know how to help others.
That’s why my soul chose to go through all this, and that’s why in my work today I sometimes deal with very difficult cases of trauma and depression, knowing how to help people with them because I have gone through those same things and emerged from them myself.
Suddenly, I remembered my childhood feeling that told me I have significance and an important role to play in the world, and that I was not just born to the experiences I had and to my family. Suddenly, pieces of the puzzle of my life connected in a new way that I hadn’t seen clearly until then, and I closed a circle with them.
This led me to a deep understanding of why I am here in the world: to bring more healing, love, and a sense of meaning to people, to help them emerge from their darkness and difficulties just as I emerged from mine, and to find love and light.
This understanding also gave me meaning regarding all the darkness I have experienced (and still experience at times) and helped me see it as a great gift.
Contribution, Giving, Freedom, and Unconditional Love:
Today, my journey is to help others. I am, of course, still on my personal healing journey, but much of my energy goes into contributing to the people in my life, and that is a great gift.
I find great joy, healing, and satisfaction in helping others find more joy and freedom, and I have seen people make amazing changes in the processes they have gone through with me.
I have seen them heal traumas, emerge from depression and chronic anxiety into calmness and happiness.
They make changes that help them live the lives of their dreams, change careers, relocate, and choose to live from love, peace, light, and truth.
It is so fulfilling and fun.
My passion today is to contribute and give, as much as possible, over and over again.
My love for life deepens day by day, along with my sense of peace, freedom, joy, and inner sovereignty.
I have proven to myself that I can find joy from within and navigate the challenges of trauma and depression, and each year I feel happier, more peaceful, and more whole within myself than the previous year, regardless of what is happening in the world outside.
It is true that my joy is inherently internal, but I do find that the happier I am inside, the more good things I attract outside as well, and that is such fun!
This doesn’t mean that I don’t have challenges or that I don’t have more inner work to do and things to heal; of course, I do!
It simply means that over time, I feel more and more joy just from within myself and satisfied with life as it is.
Recently, I’ve discovered that part of this joy is also embracing the challenges and the healing work I still have to do and enjoying them as part of the journey and the way ❤️.
These days, I work with people in my clinic and accompany them in internal processes of growth and healing, I run the digital school “Happy No Matter What,” which includes a supportive and loving community and courses covering all the tools I have ever learned in my journey. I lead retreats with Gary in Mexico and transformative courses in intimate groups on topics such as emotional healing of trauma, spirituality, creating the lives we want, relationships, and learning to be the masters of ourselves.
My Qualifications:
Over 5 years of intensive and deep study of the Self Mastery approach (“being the masters of ourselves”) from my mentor Gary, which includes over 500 hours of courses, more than 5 in-depth week-long retreats, and over 500 hours of deep 1:1 sessions with him.
Training in mindfulness meditation and Dharma instruction at Wingate College under Alon Par.
Studied Zen and personal coaching in the Zen way with American Zen teacher Alex Mill for two years, which includes 50 hours of training through courses and an additional 60 hours of 1:1 learning with him in personal meetings. There are many parallels between Alex’s approach and the “Trilotherapy” treatment approach of Nissim Amon.
Research-based personal coaching training for adults and adolescents at the American school “Youth Coaching Academy,” recognized by the International Coaching Organization.
Training in trauma treatment through the “Compassionate Inquiry” approach from international trauma expert Dr. Gabor Maté.
Training in the “Soul Healing” method by Dor Shamai.
Rebirthing – a circular breathwork therapy approach I have experienced deeply and which is part of what I learned to guide during Dor Shamai’s “Soul Healing” training.
Other Approaches I Use Deeply but Have Not Officially Studied:
The Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy approach: This is one of my favorite therapeutic approaches that helps us find acceptance and harmony among all the parts within us. It’s an approach I use extensively in my clinic, have researched deeply, and experienced as a patient for hundreds of hours, and it’s very similar to the therapeutic approach I learned from my mentor Gary.
The Somatic Experiencing therapy approach, an amazing research-based method for emotional healing and trauma recovery.
Studies on non-duality from spiritual teachers Mooji, Eckhart Tolle, and Rupert Spira.
Byron Katie’s “The Work” method.
Motivational Interviewing therapy approach I learned during an independent course training from Psychwire.
More than any of my training, the coaching process I do with people is dynamic, intuitive, and present in the moment. Therefore, I often integrate tools I invent on the spot that are suitable for the person I’m working with, tailored to their unique needs, and I know how to blend all the tools I’ve learned into a coherent process that addresses all of your needs on many different levels.
The most significant thing I’ve learned in my years as both a patient and a therapist is that the best therapists are those who can be present in the moment, intuitive, and attentive to the person in front of them, and who also do deep personal development work themselves.
That’s why I continue to evolve and learn new healing and therapeutic approaches all the time, integrating them into the processes I conduct, and connecting more and more with the presence and intuition within me to guide all the people going through processes with me in the most present, loving, ethical, professional, and transformative way I can. 🙏
A bit of personal information and cool facts about me:
I am still engaging in various processes and learning all the time. I also continue to learn with Gary, and my process with him keeps deepening and amazing me with new insights and depths we reach together.
I’ve been in a relationship since 2017 with my amazing partner Granit, the incredible woman I met in 2017 when I was a 17-year-old boy, and I’m still with her today ❤️. She is on her own wonderful journey of personal and spiritual development and is also treating people herself now.
I have a PlayStation 5, and I really love playing it. It brings me back to the joys of my childhood and adventures in magical and imagined worlds.
My favorite and most exciting movie is “The Shawshank Redemption,” and I’m also a huge fan of superhero movies. My favorite heroes are Batman (which connects to my dark side) and Spider-Man (a connection to the light within me).
I have a lovely dog named Raven, and I had a wonderful childhood dog named Nana who passed away, whom I love so much ❤️.
I have a dream of living half the year in the country and half the year traveling the world, and I’m going to start fulfilling it next year with a half-year trip to Mexico.
I am an endlessly curious person and love learning about various topics. Of course, mostly about spirituality, but I am also very interested in dance, vocal development and music, economics, investments and crypto, geopolitics, mathematics, and quantum physics.
