Coaching with Compassion and Kindness
Modern living can be relentless and unforgiving; increased pressures, too many demands and putting everyone else’s needs first takes its toll, it can leave you stressed, overwhelmed and heading for burnout.
There is no question that coaching is a a powerful tool that can really make a positive difference in your life, it effects real and sustainable change leading to a greater sense of purpose, fulfilment and happiness.
Now imagine coaching rooted in compassion, trust and kindness, providing you with a safe space and permission to show yourself the same love and forgiveness, the same support and compassion that you show others…
Now imagine investing this time in yourself, think what you could really achieve, once you remember how to believe...
What is Coaching?
Coaching, counselling and mentoring are often put together but they are three very different modalities and have very different approaches, purpose and outcomes.
Coaching starts with the belief that, at a conscious and subconscious level, you know what you need. You know what your barriers are, you know what will work for you. You have all the resources and solutions you need, and have the ability to create them.
Unlike counselling, coaching does not delve into the content of your past, it can be completely content free. Unlike mentoring, I won’t be offering advice or telling you what to do, unless you really want me to and we can decide that as we go along.
Instead, my skill as a coach is to navigate you through your thoughts, feelings and behaviours at the deeper, subconscious level and bring them to the surface for you to create very powerful and long lasting change.
As your coach, I will guide you through a process using skilled questioning to
identify your goals, root causes of limitations, blocks or barriers.
I will use a combination of techniques to unpick and uninstall harmful beliefs and behaviours and replace them with strategies that are helpful and healing and will ultimately take you towards and beyond your goals, the life you want to have and who you want to be.
Why work with me?
It’s so important to find the right coach for you, so why choose me?
As well as being a qualified teacher, certified Coach and NLP practitioner. I am also a mother first, a widow and a highly experienced professional who has been exactly where you are.
As someone with self-imposed high expectations, constantly striving to balance career/ responsibilities, finances, home and family relationships, putting everyone else’s needs first, making sure everyone is okay and ‘fixing’ everything, feeling responsible for everyone else’s feelings, struggling to ask for what you need, or accept it when it’s given.
Constantly overthinking, feeling overwhelmed, operating in a state of heightened stress, leaving you exhausted and fatigued, you’ve lost your spark. You know you want things to change but you just don’t know where to start or what to do.
I’ve been there, believe me, and coaching was the difference that made the difference. It gave me my life back, my future and myself. I believe in the power of coaching and also the importance of compassion.
Do not underestimate the power of treating yourself and your situation with compassion and kindness, with love, warmth, trust and forgiveness. I will hold a safe space for you and I will treat you with the compassion, dignity and kindness you really do deserve to heal, and to move forward.
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About Me
Hi, I'm Andrea, compassionate coach and founder of The Phoenix Within. I began my coaching career over a decade ago through my work in education and through supporting some of our most vulnerable families to make the changes they needed to turn their lives around following domestic abuse, trauma, substance misuse and neglect.
I believe in the importance of valuing people of celebrating all that is human, our strengths and our flaws…that’s why all my coaching is rooted in compassion and kindness and a belief in you as my client.
That doesn’t mean that coaching is easy or soft, it takes real work and conscious commitment. One of the most amazing things about coaching is the power of the shifts it can make. It’s like being in a Pilates class, how one little movement can cause so much pain is beyond me, it’s the same with coaching, using the right techniques and knowing ‘where to tap’ can create significant change, and because it is rooted in your unconscious, like a good Pilates session, the effects continue to make positive change long after the session.
The science of coaching
Following the loss of my husband, I was stuck in a cycle of grief and whereas counselling helped for a time, it felt like I was re-living the trauma over and over again. I wanted to live, not re-live and this is when I discovered the power of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) alongside traditional coaching techniques.
NLP is rooted in science and linguistics and is based on modelling excellence.
NLP combines theories, models and techniques from a range of scientific and esoteric fields, to create accessible, understandable ‘tools’ which can be used by individuals, teams and organisations and applied in a variety of contexts to improve outcomes, support wellbeing and create change” ANLP (Association for NLP)
What I really like about NLP is that it works, you will experience real shifts in every single coaching session you have. It's incredibly effective, and has lasting impact. You will gain so much insight into how you experience and interpret the world and how this impacts your decision making and interactions. You will learn tools and techniques for life that will help you navigate whatever challenges you face.
Not only will you reap the benefits, the positive changes will ripple out into the lives of all the people you touch and that is a real gift.
I am really looking forward to working with you, every person is different, every journey is different and the outcome is always beyond expectation.
What packages do you offer?
Please click the icons below for the different coaching packages available or use the contact link at the top of the page to ask any further questions.
Andrea
