healing ways
Unleash Your True Potential
Working with a Life Coach Can Help by Sandra Yeyati
H
iring a life coach can be an empowering decision for people that want to understand
themselves better and lead fulfilled lives. Coaches may specialize in distinct topics like business, parenting or weight loss, but, “It’s all life coaching,” says Patrick Williams, a master certified coach by the International Coach Federation, licensed psychologist and founder of the Institute for Life Coach Training. “If I hire a specialist like a wellness coach, I assume they’re going to know something about wellness, but I’m not hiring a consultant to tell me what I should do in diet and exercise. I want to be coached in living a more well life.” According to master certified coach Fran
Fisher, with 30 years of experience, “Life coaching is a safe environment or sacred space of unconditional love and acceptance where learning, growth and transformation naturally occur. It’s a partnership of two experts. Te client is the expert of the content: who they are, what’s important to them and what they believe, think and feel. Te coach is the expert of the process. Tey’ve been specially trained to help the client access their deeper wisdom and make better choices that align with who they are.”
Going for Gold Martha Beck, Ph.D., a Harvard-trained sociologist, renowned coach and bestselling author of Te Way of Integrity, says, “Most problems can be resolved by simply talking to someone who is willing to listen compassionately and deeply to whatever is going on in their lives and to give them good feedback. A coach will get you to high levels of happiness, self-fulfillment and self-expression. Unlike therapists, coaches don’t deal with the mentally ill. Tey deal with the mentally well who want to maximize their performance.” “A coach helps you think and say and
dream of things you hadn’t thought before,” says Williams. “I can advise myself all day long, but as soon as I have a conversation with a trained coach, I hear myself differently. I get new ideas, and that motivates me to make change. Te value may come monetarily. It may improve
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