What Exactly does a Holistic Life Coach Do?

What do you do when you feel stuck in some area of your life? You may be considering a career change, wanting to improve your relationship, thinking that you are just not happy, or wanting to accomplish a particular goal that is causing you trouble. You've talked it over with friends, tried to make some changes yourself, maybe read a few self-help books, but to no avail. You still feel stuck. What else can you do?

You can hire a Holistic Life Coach!

Think about it. These days, if you are stuck in trying to lose weight or increase fitness, you can hire a personal trainer. If you need help with academics, you hire a tutor. If your financial future needs a tune-up, you find a financial planner. Well, what if you feel that your life in general just isn’t quite what you want it to be? Or, what if you’ve been trying to accomplish a specific goal and you just can’t past a certain point?

What would a Holistic Life Coach do?

A coach helps you clarify exactly what your goals are, helps you determine what steps you need to take to achieve those goals, and helps you set into action a plan for accomplishing those steps. A coach then helps you hold yourself accountable for your progress. Probably even more importantly, a coach helps you identify those stumbling blocks that interfere with your progress, and immediately works with you to remove those stumbling blocks and proceed with your stated goals.

Isn’t this the same as therapy?

In a word, no. Therapy is a very powerful set of experiences that may become necessary when we find that we encounter the same stumbling blocks over and over again. Therapy is a corrective experience, designed to help heal past wounds. People who use a life coach may come to find that they desire therapy, and certainly people in therapy may want to make use of a life coach.  Therapy and coaching are two approaches to creating healthy changes in our lives.  One complements the other.

Most people who seek life coaching consider themselves to be functioning well, without psychological issues that are interfering in their lives, such as anxiety, depression, poor self-esteem, or other symptoms. Rather, people seek coaching when life is going well, but there is a wish to expand their lives, their careers and their general well-being. People seek coaching when they feel that they could be even more successful, and wish to have someone to work with them to help them achieve what is still missing. This may be a very specific goal, such as increasing business revenue or personal relationship skills, or a more wide-ranging goal, such as determining how to turn one’s life around in order to achieve more balance between the personal, emotional, relational and spiritual.

What happens next?

At your first meeting, Marjorie will help you define your goals. Most coaching clients come in stating fairly clearly what they want to accomplish, and if necessary this is refined further. Along with that will come a definition of desired outcomes. As with any goal-defined journey, you have to know where you are going in order to get there. As your coach, Marjorie will provide specific tools that will help you, and will certainly give observations and feedback about those stumbling blocks that may appear. You may work on and accomplish one stated goal and feel finished, or you may then decide to define a new goal and work on that. It's completely up to you!

Many coaching clients like to meet weekly to work on their stated goals.  Others prefer to schedule sessions less often.  You are in charge of what the best pacing is.  If you're not sure, be sure to bring that up so that you and Marjorie can decide together what the best timing is for you.

Holistic Life Coaching is a practice with the stated aim of helping clients determine and achieve personal goals. Life coaches use multiple methods that may help clients with the process of setting and reaching goals. Holistic Life Coaching is not targeted at psychological illness. Holistic Life Coaching is a future-focused practice with the aim of helping clients determine and achieve personal goals. Life coaches use multiple methods that will help clients with the process of setting and reaching goals. Coaching is not targeted at psychological illness and coaches are neither therapists nor consultants.

Holistic Life Coaching is motivational, inspiring, positive, exciting and action driven. Life coaching helps you look at where you are now and where you’d like to be, and helps you bridge the gap. By raising awareness and encouraging you to take responsibility for your life, life coaching can help you rise to your own particular challenge and go further than you ever thought possible.

So, is this magic?

Does the Holistic Life Coach just wave a magic wand and make everything wonderful? Sadly no, and it has to be said, that coaching involves a lot of hard work and commitment. However, if you are ready for change in your life, the benefits can be enormous.

As your Holistic Life Coach I will encourage you, empower you and challenge you. I have combined the latest life coaching skills with my experience years working as Holistic Psychotherapist to provide an innovative approach to help you take charge of your life and improve your relationships.  My specialty is helping people to get focused, get organized, create priorities and most of all find balance in their lives. 

Marjorie Gross

Certified Professional Holistic Life Coach

Life Growth Facilitator

Certified Psychosynthesist

Integrating Mind – Body - Spirit

518-862-1974 ext 95

mhgross@me.com

Free half hour consultation

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