Life Coach...What is that?

What is a life coach? How can a life coach help me and my family?  

In a journal article, Champions of potential: Life coaching for older adults, it states: "Research has indicated that clients who have received coaching attribute many positive outcomes to the coaching relationship, including improved self-awareness, a more balanced life, and healthier relationships."   

    I am a family life coach.  I focus on helping families to succeed. 

Coaching techniques include 1. Encouraging self-discovery and direction, 2. questioning, and 3. goal setting. Through discovering the strengths they have, clients can visualize a clearer path to accomplish the goals they set while avoiding challenges that have held them back.

Family coaching follows the same basic concept as all other types of coaching: guiding a person from where they are, to where they want to be. Family life coaches support families in a side-by-side capacity, offering support where needed. Coaches are there to help clients set goals.  Family life coaches are like training wheels, supporting the family only when needed to make sure the family moves successfully forward on their own journey.

Connection beats Depression

There is something missing in our families. It’s connection. There is a mental health crisis going on right now. Kids and teens are growing up with problem connecting. They can be scared to talk on the phone. They can stare at the phone because they don’t know how to actively listen. I love technology and it has great uses but it is also hurting our youth. It is causing anxiety and depression.  

What to do about it?  

My favorite quote is from David Kozlowsk on the "Light the Fight" podcast.  He says "Connection beats depression."  To help beat depression and anxieties, connect with people.  You can use this in all aspects of your life.  The point is to connect with what they like.  For instance, I like crafting.  My son likes fortnight.   If I want to connect with him, I should play fortnight with him.  I should not expect him to want to go to the craft store with me.  You can use this in all different types of connections you want to make.  Do you want to connect better with a coworker?  Find out their interests and how you can use it to connect.  

This is not a very well written article, but hope I got my point across.  If you have any questions, please reach out.  Contact me if you would like to try me as a life coach!!  I love working with all different types of people and families.  

Making Better Memories - A new beginning

We haven’t posted on this site for years. My friend, my partner in this site, this idea, this mission... passed away. It has been years now but the pain doesn’t dull. I have been trying to decide what to do with this group, this site, Making Better Memories. I decided to use it for life coaching. Kim and I would talk for hours everyday... about our dreams, parenting, marriages, adoption and just life in general.

I would like to use my degree to help people and carry on our idea to help Make Better Memories. I have an associates in social work and a bachelors in marriage and family studies.

I was talking to Kim’s daughter, as we played around in the local pool (something I did with Kim every summer). I was listing jobs I could do with my degree and life coach was one of them. After that conversation, I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I think I need to turn our idea to helping families succeed instead of just sharing stories.

So? What do you think? What’s your opinion? I would love to know