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If you’re feeling like there must be more to life, at a subconscious level you might be running and living your life based on what you were brought up to believe. When a child, you internalised a set of rules, what you can, can’t and should do and it may be that these rules are behind many of the career decisions that you’re still making. If you were brought up to believe that your value lay in performing well at school, University and beyond then it’s not uncommon to...

When was the last time that you considered your coach’s listening ability? This article explores listening and considers when we listen, to what are we paying attention? Many writers talk of the different levels of listening and four key ones can be summarised as follows:1. Cosmetic listening – your mind is off elsewhere, and you are acting ‘as if’ you are listening. With an increasing use of mobile phones and other technology, we can often be distracted when we are with...

Did you love to draw as a child? At what point did you stop drawing? Or maybe you haven’t? There’s much research about how therapists are using drawing to help clients explore aspects of their lives that they want to change. Being creative in itself has been shown to lower blood pressure and heart rate, lessen pain and nausea and reduce anxiety and stress. There’s value to be had in simply drawing, painting, or doodling without ever giving it a closer examination. Being in...

Is fear holding you back from leaving your corporate role, starting a new job, taking the promotion, growing your business or going travelling and exploring the world? What causes fear? Many people would be surprised to know that their fears have been learnt throughout the course of their lifetime. Babies are born with two fears; the fear of falling and the fear of loud noises. Any other fears you experience have been learnt. They may have been acquired through your personal experiences,...

In some cases, managing these expectations can lead to stressed-out children and teens, confused family dynamics and aggravated behaviour.  But, with the help of a youth coach, young people can gain confidence, learn healthy self-expression skills and effective emotional coping mechanisms.

Youth coaching often comes across as quite an ambiguous term, due to lack of clarity of what it actually entails. Far from being limited to sports activities, youth coaching can encompass many personal...

The roots of NLP are in looking at how people do what they do and how they create excellence, breaking down the way they do things and being able to create the same result for ourselves. What is NLP? In NLP we look for and pay attention to patterns - speech patterns, but mostly non-verbal behaviour. In the discovery of another person's unique patterns, we can see how they get the results or outcome that they get and how they create an outstanding performance. We can also see patterns that...

What is the film you hate the most? You just can’t stand this movie and whenever it comes on the TV, you just have to change the channel and watch something else. Anything else! It doesn’t even have to be one film… what are the movies that you really detest? You can’t take them at all. They irritate you, annoy you or bore you to tears. Why not add in TV programmes to the mix. Which transmissions of terrestrial TV find you scrambling for the remote control quicker than...

Most of us will have re-played a conversation, argument or niggling situation over and over in our minds to try to make sense of it, to separate right from wrong or to sort out who was to blame! Or it may be a situation where you wish you had responded differently. Whichever, it's an emotional and uncomfortable cycle to be stuck in. I have good news, however – there is no need to be stuck in that cycle! Since training as a life coach, I have learned how to make peace with memories and...