How Coaching Helped
Before I started coaching I had a difficult time prioritising and often got bogged down because I felt overwhelmed. It made me depressed and drained my confidence. After 3 months of coaching I feel like I have learned to break down tasks that previously felt overwhelming, and develop strategies to accomplish my goals. Simply put, I feel much more in control and capable... My confidence is BACK! I no longer shrink from tasks. I can confront them head on because I now understand how to approach them better... Coaching has taught me to manage my stress better, mainly by helping me set and reach my goals, which has in turn reduced my stress... My life satisfaction has greatly improved. I have learned to identify things which make me happy and peaceful and incorporate them into my daily life... Before I was a bit sceptical of wellness coaching. Now, I am a huge fan. It was exactly what I needed. PW Coaching has helped me to break down my weight loss journey into steps. In the beginning I raced to just start losing weight and I kept falling off the path I had set for myself. Joanne taught me to see small successes in the form of my weekly goals as wins to help me stay motivated. I also learnt some very useful tricks to help me – preparing and shopping for menus in advance, filling lonely times to prevent me eating, eating more regularly to stop me feeling hungry and focussing my mind on my wellness vision and what I’m trying to achieve. I might not have lost the weight I’d hoped to but I do feel better prepared to succeed now that before I started coaching. |
The wellness coaching process has helped me develop very effective tools to handle destructive behaviours and practices: “before” I would tend to get stuck in a certain state of mind related to some unhealthy behavioural patterns (working, smoking, eating etc.) - “now” I am able to prevent myself from reaching/dwelling in these situations; “before” work was my primary/only priority in my daily life – “now” I have a good variety of weekly priorities not related to work (yoga, pilates, language class, squash, mental health etc). In addition, my eating habits significantly improved and I am maintaining a proper work-life balance and upholding good practices to deal with ‘restlessness’: the coaching has supported my stress management through a more sensible work-life balance. The coaching has contributed greatly to my confidence in my ability to change my own behaviour in a positive way if I set my mind on it. Knowing that it is “relatively” easy to change unhealthy and destructive behaviours, I feel motivated to deal with future challenges or barriers for ultimate wellness. Though I did not have very big or specific expectations I was positively surprised by the systematic approach and focus on concrete measurable results.” NL Through coaching I was able to see where I struggled with a lot of food anxiety and foreboding feelings as it related to food, exercise and health. Joanne helped me break them down into manageable, bite-sized pieces. Being a person who always had to read everything now, conquer it all today and be perfect at everything in the moment, I now feel more equipped to take on things systematically and realistically given my time. Having struggled with weight and eating issues for so many years, I have now come to realise that those issues are symptomatic of other areas unfulfilled and unrealised. The objectives set within coaching supported a healthy lifestyle and life changes versus what I felt before, which was just to be motivated and loose some weight. I have learned in 13 weeks to take a more holistic look at my life. I want to achieve overall balance and a HEALTHY LIFE. Most importantly, I have learned to be A LOT more self-compassionate. DT |
Personal Coaching Stories
This is the story of my wellness journey...It all began in 2011 with a call from a friend suggesting I put myself forward to be a practice client for Joanne, a trainee wellness coach, for three months. |
Joanne is very knowledgeable on the coaching process but also on the substance of the issues I wanted to work on such as weight. I had complete confidence in her advice and was very grateful for the way in which she imparted information – i.e. that she introduced concepts gently and was very aware of what I was ready to hear. I also felt assured that she had good resources around her and if she didn’t know something she knew where to go for information. |
Expatriate Coaching Stories
Earlier this year I met Joanne. She asked me if I was interested in wellness coaching. I was in a rut and could find no way out so I decided to give it a try. |
I had been trying to get some purpose in my life after several years of maternity leave and short-term jobs. My confidence had taken a big hit and I was unclear what I wanted to do with my life. As an expat wife, I felt tied by my circumstances and also keenly aware that my time at my posting was limited and that I needed to come to some decisions and get moving as quickly as possible. |