What is Life Coaching?

Explaining the Who, What, Why & How Much

What is Life Coaching?

More than a buzz word, life coaching is a powerful alliance designed by you and for you to help you live powerfully, successfully, joyfully, and authentically.

Life coaching assumes the individual is healthy, resourceful and has their own answers. The life coach asks the questions that send the clients looking for the best path for themselves. A coach helps individuals find the life and work they want, give their unique gifts, move towards balance and fulfillment.

Life coaching is not advice-giving, therapy, whip wielding or cheerleading. The purpose of coaching is not to get you to run even faster on the hamster wheel, but to aid you in getting out of the wheel and onto the path of your life's purpose.

Tell me, what it is you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
-From The Summer Day by poet Mary Oliver

I work with women and men who are on a quest:

To find fulfillment and life purpose
To know how to give their unique gifts
To learn how to live from the heart and soul as well as the head
To reconnect with the sacred in their daily lives
To find balance and their own true north in an often chaotic world
To understand how to make choices based on joy rather than obligation alone
To figure out practical ways to make their work and their lives satisfying and successful

Who Hires a Personal Life Coach?

Leaders, visionaries, CEOs, corporations committed to employee satisfaction and excellence, artists/creatives, managers, professionals, consultants, women and men in transition, people seeking career or life changes, the full spectrum of individuals looking for change to bring out the best in them and their lives. Some people come to coaching for more - more satisfaction, more money, more clarity, more heart and soul, or more organization, for example, and some come to coaching for less - less stress, less overwhelm, less procrastination, less drifting.

From all walks of life people come to life coaching to realize their full potential, to make their dreams come true. Often people come to coaching who are in the midst of a transition or a crisis. Each of us find ourselves at some point in our lives forced by circumstance to re-examine our choices, our actions, our possibilities. Coaching offers clarity, honesty, compassion, non-judgement and far vision. Sometimes people hire a life coach to aid them in a particular process. I often work with those who yearn for more spirituality in their lives. This doesn't mean I teach or lead people to a particular set of spiritual beliefs or practices. Rather I help seekers get more sure about their own spiritual path.

Empowering women

One of my specialties is working with women who are re-membering their truth, their voices, and their lives; women who struggle with the enourmous demands of life, childrearing and work; women in the metamorphosis of menopause who yearn for meaning and soul in a culture that denies both; women who manage to provide care for all those around them at the expense of themselves; women who are squeezed into situations that de-power them; women who are ready and willing to step into their own full power. I coach women individually in the Wise Woman Tradition, and also work with women in groups as we walk the path of a Daughter of the Earth.

The only constant in life is change. If you are ready for it, go ahead, create the world you yearn for!

My self-confidence depends on the fact that I have
discovered my dimensions. It does not become me
to make myself less than I am.
- Edith Sodergran, Scandinavian Poet, 1892 - 1923

What Happens in Life Coaching?

Most coaching happens over the phone, although the coach and the coachee can meet in person if they live in the same area.

The first few sessions of coaching are spent in discovery - exploring your core values, your life purpose, your personal code of conduct, the way you move through the world. During this discovery we map out what you want from coaching, identifying concrete measures of success. We also design the coaching alliance that would best meet your needs. After the initial discovery sessions, we meet regularly, usually 3 times each month, continuing to deepen your learning while moving you into action that gets you to your goals and beyond.

How long do people work with a personal life coach?

I ask people to make an initial commitment to coaching for 3 months. After that clients continue on a month to month basis for as long as they are getting the results they want. The practical, results oriented approach of coaching motivates you to make the changes you want in your life in a relatively short time.

What does it cost?

Monthly coaching packages start from $120 (US dollars) depending on the amount of time you choose to spend in coaching. We begin with a two-hour discovery session ($200). Most clients choose to meet 3 times a month for 45 minutes each time ($270) but we will customize the schedule to meet your needs. Flexible payment options are available.

What does it cost you to stay stuck where you are? What would it be worth to you to live what you can only imagine now? What's it worth to you to make the changes you yearn for?

There is unimaginable greatness in each one of us.
Our limitations are only illusions.

How life coaching works