Thank God for a husband with a sense of the current and cool. I was going to do a Newsletter. A newsletter, baby? Really? How about a Blog? Right! Of course! So here we are.
As some of you know, I graduated from a Life Coaching program this past summer, and have been struggling with what direction I would take things ever since. To be honest, I have conflicting feelings about the title “Life Coach”. Despite my deeply held belief that we can all benefit from the kind of support offered by a Life Coach, there is a little voice in my head that says, “What does that even MEAN?” LIFE Coach? What, exactly, am I getting coached on here?
There are three primary ways we change and grow in life; through the journey of achievement/creation, through the changing of circumstances, and through our interactions with others. Most coaching sort of works in that order. We set goals to create something or to change something about our circumstances. And then, in the course of implementing these goals, we address the issues that come up with any human we may encounter on route. But this is problematic for me, because it is a reverse of the way in which I would prioritize these values.
In my opinion, our relationships provide us with the most powerful opportunities to discover our character strengths and our values – the things about ourselves that give us the power to move forward in life. And they give us powerful opportunities to work through things about ourselves that stand in the way of what we want and who we want to be. The feedback we can observe from our relationships is rich, immediate, and particularly worthy of our consideration because of where it comes from – another human being. A dynamic and direct reflection of ourselves.
In addition, more than our jobs, hobbies, or material possessions, it is the quality of our relationships – the knowledge that we are understood, supported and, most importantly, appreciated, and the availability of positive interaction – that most determines the quality of our lives.
And so here I am…a Relationship Coach. A coach whose passion is to assist people in transforming their relationships into healthy and inspiring opportunities for growth and joy. So my intention for this blog is to take a relationship issue each month and discuss some aspect that seems important or interesting to consider. And we can talk about any relationship – girlfriend, husband, ex, Mom, brother, teengage kid, boss, coworker, busdriver.
ForwardMotionCoaching. It was a name created based on my original intention to be a Life Coach. When I decided to focus on relationships, I considered changing the name – at first sight, it didn’t seem to apply. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that this was exactly the message I wanted to send about what I do.
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