Life Coaching and Beyond
Rather than talk about my life coaching skills, I would like to share my personal experiences with you. Some of you will probably relate to this more than my professional qualifications and career history.
There is nothing like a divorce to rock your world and there is nothing like the resulting emotional wreckage and financial decimation to force a re-examination of one’s career and personal life.
Adversity spawned my creation of Life Skill Coach.
Like taking a crash course in facing your insecurities, divorce made me deal with FEAR on a primitive level. Basic survival issues like money, food and shelter, became paramount, with the accompanying activation of the primitive part of my brain–the amygdala–the center of the fight-flight-freeze response. It probably is this trigger which explains, at least in part, the acrimonious nature of the divorce process.
But… my mid life crisis allowed me the opportunity to reinvent myself with new energy, new goals and a new passion for life!
Once I saw the simple black and white choice between leading a life imprisoned by dread and despair, or one freed up by hope and new beginnings - how to live my life became a no-brainer.
The role of coach, or the idea of being the Life Skill Coach dawned on me as I gradually learned to put my life back together.
Being a mother, with two teenagers still at home, and also being a musician, I needed to follow a more integrated path, which being the Life Skill Coach offered, one which added these features to my clinical skills and goal to help others experience positive change.
Life Skill coach allows me to do this. It is health oriented, humanistic, portable and practical. I can use my personal life experiences along with my professional skills to help people forge new and positive paths in the global community we all share. I’m not sure what the future will bring. However, I know that it will now be positive, so here’s to life coaching and beyond.