Why use a Life Coach?
It was the summer of 2021, my baby boy was due in August. It was complicated pregnancy and as I turned 46, (it was my actual birthday) I was admitted to Chelsea and Westminster hospital and told I would need to stay until the baby came. I was sad to leave my 4 year old at home, but wanted to do the right thing. People came and went all the time, and I watched happy and sad moments in equal measure. My own journey to having a family had been a very difficult one, so I could easily empathise with the women’s whose journeys had sad endings and was able to provide a little comfort. I liked being able to use the dark parts of my own life for the good of someone else’s. Its not that I talked about my experiences, but I just allowed them to talk about theirs whilst I listened.
On the anti natal ward there was another woman who was in for the long haul, in fact she had been in a whole month longer than me, and we bonded over our shared confinement, even ordering deliveroo togther and eating it on each others hospital beds. Covid restrictions meant very littLe vistors or physical contact, so we made the most of seeing each other. During one of those takeaway sessions, she talked about her job and what she did, I was immediately fascinated, I was, I have to admit, feeling lost and unwanted within my current role but had no idea where to go. I had thought about pyschotherapy (and that is still my long term intention) but I wanted to do something thatI could achieve in a shorter period of time. Life Coaching…the penny dropped.
When we say the term life coaching, let’s face it, there is a little nose wriggle and a raise of the eye brow, and to be honest, fair enough, before doing my course, or meeting my lovely friend I would have probably done the same. There is definitely a traditional perseption that life coaching was for wealthy execs, not for the every day person, but I think the covid pandemic has changed all that. Covid made us all look at our lives, examine where we are at, what we are doing, whether we liked it or not, it forced those moments, but in a strange way its also made it ok to have that time of self reflection. I think we’ve all understand from that time that we all need someone to listen to us, to understand us, to help us make sense of all the noise, and essentially that really is what a life coach does, they listen, they help you find your own solutions. They help you work out what it is you need? how you can achieve that and that is where I come in:) I am here to listen, to hear you, to help you find what it is you need. So whether you have big of small decisions to make, whether are trying to work out where to go with your career or how to achieve the weight loss goals you set yourself, life coaching will give you that clarity, I promise.
