A Deeper Dive

WELLNESS COACHING

If you’re unsure about what coaching is, you’re not alone. Many people have questions. I’ve got answers! Allow me to demystify coaching.

Coaching with me is a partnership. It’s a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires you to maximize your potential. The goals are whatever you want them to be, and may change as the process unfolds.

A foundational principle of coaching is that you already have within you everything you need to succeed. You are the only expert on your life. I am there to help you access your own wisdom, ingenuity, creativity, and resolve on the path to wherever you want to go and whoever you want to be.

Working with a coach is, well, work. And because you’re reading these words you’ve already done some work to make changes on your own. Change is hard; and change that sticks is even harder.

Lucky for us, we can do hard things—and when we do them together, our chances of success go way up.*

Coaching FAQs

What is a coach?

A coach is a partner who facilitates client growth by helping them uncover their own answers and shift inner blocks. Following the specific coaching methodology in which I’ve been trained and center my work,* a coach focuses on raising a client's energy level to create sustainable transformation rather than just "band-aid" fixes.

How is a coach different from other personal and professional development roles?

Coach: Helps you find your own answers to achieve goals.
Mentor: Shares their own experience and advice to guide you.
Consultant/Trainer: Provides specific expertise or skills to solve a problem.
Therapist: Focuses on healing past trauma and improving mental health.

What are the core roles and responsibilities of a coach?

Partnership: The coach is an equal partner who does not act as an expert or advise.
Empowerment: The focus is on empowering clients to be the agent of change in their own lives.
Active Listener & Sounding Board: A coach provides a safe, non-judgmental, and confidential space to discuss challenges and aspirations.
Actionable Results: They help clients set goals and create lasting change in how they think and act.
Focus on the "Root": Coaches address the underlying thoughts, emotions, and energy (limiting perspectives) causing challenges, rather than just the outward behaviors.
Accountability Partner: A coach keeps clients focused on their commitments, ensuring they stay on track.
Core Energy™: Coaches help clients move from catabolic (destructive) energy to anabolic (constructive) energy.*
Curious Inquirer: Coaches ask powerful, open-ended questions designed to stimulate reflection and new perspectives.
Unlocker of Potential: They help identify blind spots, challenge limiting beliefs, and leverage client strengths.

What does coaching involve? What do we actually do together?

Coaching with starts with the Energy Leadership Index (ELI)* and a personalized debrief of your assessment. This powerful tool gives us deep insight into where you are at this moment, illuminating your unique strengths and opportunities so that we can create the optimal internal and external conditions for you to reach your goals.

Then together we’ll craft and clarify your goals, create a plan for achieving them, tap into ways to sustain your momentum, cut out practices that no longer serve you, hold you accountable to progress, celebrate your successes, and more.

I employ a multitude of techniques designed to approach the goals or issues you identify in novel ways. The process draws out your own internal guru and bolsters confidence in your own inner guidance.

*More on Core Energy Coaching and the ELI later.

Coaching & Wellness

Who is wellness coaching for?

Wellness coaching is ideal for individuals who crave new, outside-the-box ways to tap into their own potential for wellness. They want to explore new ideas in a safe and affirming space. They’re determined to reach an elusive wellness goal—or even figure out what their wellness goals are—and want personalized, one-on-one support and accountability to make it happen.

Many people seek out a coach to help them work on difficult issues that feel overwhelming or elusive. They may have wellness goals they’ve struggled to reach on their own, or even with the help of others using more conventional approaches.

Sometimes people hire a coach because they just have a feeling that certain aspects of their wellness could be better, but they aren’t sure where to start or how to make progress, and want support to make change feel possible.

What do you mean by “wellness?”

Wellness refers broadly to the health and vitality of your multifaceted physical, emotional, social, spiritual being. It covers a wide array of diverse opportunities and challenges that look, feel, and are experienced very differently from person to person. Because our levels of wellness depend upon the unique interplay of our specific biology, genetics, personal circumstances, lived experiences, choices, behaviors, thought patterns, etc.—“wellness” means different things to different people.

People commonly seek coaching to reach wellness goals and improve overall wellness in one or multiple areas. Examples include: nutrition; sleep; self-care; exercise/physical fitness; weight management; chronic pain; healing from injury/procedure or illness; energy levels and sense of vitality; self-love; healthy relationships; fostering a sense of connection and support systems with friends, family, and community; discovering and/or deepening relationship with a higher power; finding meaning, purpose, and value in life; experiencing joy and being present in day-to-day life; and so much more.

Wellness really is open to interpretation—as it should be! And because coaching is completely personalized to your life and your goals, wellness means whatever you decide in our work together.

Important note: we will also have fun!

Because hard work is made easier, and way more effective, when you approach it with a sense of playfulness and curiosity.

We keep gratitude at the forefront by remembering that it’s both an opportunity and a privilege to invest time, resources, and effort toward improving your wellness.

We access joy by creating alignment between what we’re doing and why we’re doing it, to stay present and do the work on purpose.

Oh yeah—and because the last thing anyone needs is more UNfun-ness!

*Studies show you have a 65% chance of completing a goal if you commit to someone. And if you have a specific accountability appointment with a person/people to whom you have committed, you will increase your chance of success by up to 95%. (American Society of Training and Development [ASTD])