Meet Your Coach

Learning has been my passion for longer than I can remember. When I started my coach training program, I thought I knew myself pretty well already. That my way of filtering the world was rational, sensible and obviously right - it worked for me, why wouldn't it work for everyone else? (I'm only half-kidding.) Yet, I knew that wasn't quite right.

As I worked through the nine-months long training program, there was a line of poetry from the 17th century English poet John Donne that started running through my head on a regular basis: "I am a little world made cunningly..."

There is so much to explore within ourselves, so many hidden and slowly revealed places as well as the places we think are obvious and in plain sight. I know this is true because I have discovered, and continue to discover with my daily practices, things about myself that I never knew before:

~ Where fear shows up, often unexpectedly, in my life, but really in plain sight if I just pay attention, in mundane, daily behaviors that I haven't before thought to question;

~ The hidden, unexplored, unchallenged areas, because they were already so obviously the way things "should" be, like expectations and assumptions, and how to be vulnerable;

~ The places that are slowly being revealed, that I've recognized before as roadblocks to being who I really want to be in the world, like perfectionism, impatience, overthinking and living in my head.

And now, thanks to the tools and exercises I use daily, I finally have a handle on how to re-frame fears when I recognize them, approach and work with them to turn them into road pavers instead of road blocks.