ExpeRience Transformation

What Is Life Coaching?

Life coaching is everywhere these days with social media posts promising to coach you through everything from weight loss to writing your first novel. It begs two big questions:

How can you discern the professional qualified coaches from those unqualified who make sensationalized claims?
And what is life coaching, anyway?

To answer these questions, it’s important to discern what life coaching is and what it isn’t.

Life coaching is a relationship-based process focused on helping you identify your goals and help move you toward them. These goals may be professional, personal or even spiritual in nature.

A life coach isn’t an expert on you. Only you are qualified to be the expert of your life.

The life coach is your guide in this goal-focused process, by providing you with three things.

Life Coach

Benefits of a coach

A life coach holds you accountable and this accountability puts your chances of fully reaching your goals at 95%.

According to the American Society of Training and Development, those odds go down by a whopping 70% when you’re on your own.

Training

Guidance

Accountability

Being honest

Life coaching is not counseling

Coaches focus on actions that could be taken in the present to impact the future. Trained professional therapists address past traumas and hurtful experiences – life experiences considered present-past oriented in nature.

Therapist: Past - Present
Life Coach: Present – Future

It is recommended that clients work through past traumas and pain with a therapist first, but it can be beneficial for clients to do both if the process is overseen by a licensed practitioner. Learn more about the legal distinctions here.

“There's no better feeling than when you're moving forward.”

The Right Life Coach for You

It’s best to find a life coach with clearly defined specializations. A life coach can’t honestly and effectively help someone in all areas of their life. The right coach for you is one who has advanced training and life experience in the areas where you need help. This is important because there are no required regulatory guidelines for life coaches. Ask important questions upfront about their experiences and credentials.

Life coaching is a relationship based on trust and mutual authentic accountability so ask about protective measures such as privacy contracts and liability protection.

Now it's time for you to take the next step!

What You Get With Me

A trained empathetic individual who partners with you so you can become more self-aware and confident to meet life head on.
A coach certified in the Integrative Enneagram which allows you to have a deeper understanding about why you think, feel, and do life the way you do.
A person who provides gentle accountability and consistent encouragement so you see your true potential from a new perspective.

Are You Stuck in a Rut?

My Enneagram-based life coaching can help you recognize the perceptions and sub-conscious strategies that are keeping you from realizing your true potential. Contact me and let's get you unstuck!

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