What is Transformational Life Coaching?

            Transformational Life Coaching is the razor-sharp sword

needed to cut away the obstacles keeping

you from living your best !!

Coaching is definitely not just for athletes anymore.  It is now widely taken advantage of by everyone from CEOs to college students.  Coaching helps you to live up to your potential and walk into your purpose! The benefits you gain from working with a coach are numerous. Did you know individuals who engage in a coaching relationship experience fresh perspectives on personal and professional challenges and opportunities, increased decision-making skills, enhanced interpersonal effectiveness, and increased confidence in carrying out their chosen vocational and life roles? 

Coaching is not therapy or counseling.  Coaching is best described as closing the gap between where you are now and where you want to be.  While therapy & counseling primarily focus on the past and healing, coaching focuses on the future and growth.   It is a journey of discovery of self and your true dreams and desires, as well as shining light on the obstacles keeping you stuck and unable to attain your life’s goals.

We easily accept the idea of coaching for sports, personal fitness and tutoring, right?  Why not a coach to help transform your LIFE. 

According to Mental Health America, and other statistics, at least 19 million Americans suffer from depression, 12 million of which are women.  Why is it such an epidemic?  Well, when you think about living a life you don’t want to live, why wouldn’t you be depressed?

We were created by God for abundance, which simply means walking in fullness & wholeness in every area of your life; nothing missing, nothing broken, nothing fractured.  That doesn’t mean pain or challenging circumstances won’t come; it means all that lies deep within your heart is whole assisting you in overcoming when those difficult times do arise.  You and you alone have the power to tap into all that God has already put there.  All the power and choices lie within your hands!

"It's time to start living the life you've imagined."
~Henry James

Transformational coaching helps individuals make drastic life changes

Clients seeking transformational life coaching must be willing to take a holistic view of their lives and consider what brings them discontent, remaining open-minded to unexpected answers. Unlike situational coaching, where a client might see a desired career change as a goal, the transformational style doesn’t pinpoint objectives.

Instead, this approach digs deep to uproot what isn’t working in a person’s life and morph their perspective. This coaching approach is like career coaching or lifestyle coaching, except for the focus on major — instead of incremental — change.  

Transformation has become a popular term in today’s culture, in business, leadership, faith based and coaching circles. Unfortunately, when a word is used so freely, we often lose touch with its true meaning and use it to describe something it is not. This can happen when the words ‘change’ and ‘transformation’ are used interchangeably. We make changes all the time to the way we look, think, feel, and act. If we have intentionally set about on a course of action to learn or grow—to communicate better, to manage our emotions more effectively, to be a better friend or partner—we have likely grown and changed, but have we necessarily transformed? All transformation is change, but not all change is transformation.

In simple terms, transformational coaching is focused on enabling self-actualization.  It dives deep into an individual’s psyche, focusing on who that person is and desires to become. Transformational coaching focuses on ‘being’ rather than ‘doing.’

The great transformational coaching question is therefore, “Who do you choose to be?” and what makes the process transformational is learning and doing what it takes to grow into the embodiment of that choice in being.

To facilitate this process, a transformational coach supports people to dive below the surface and immerse themselves in self-exploration, to examine their beliefs, images, and interpretations about who they are and their purpose and place in this world.

It’s a Deep Exploration of Your “Personal Operating System”

A coaching client needs to have the willingness to face underlying fears and beliefs in order to become free of patterns of thought and emotion that have held them captive for a lifetime. Change then happens at the core level of mind, within the person’s internal operating system, and when the person grows significantly at this level it creates the environment for equally significant shifts in their behaviors, choices, and emotions.

Over time, real transformation occurs, and the necessary thoughts, attitudes, and actions which function to bring envisioned goals into existence will arise organically.

Transformational coaching challenges clients to realize that being is paramount to doing and doing flows from being.

The intent of transformational coaching is to get to essence, to the heart of the matter, to explore the ground of being.

Focus: Be Different

·       Being-focused

·       Dives below the surface

·       Gets to essence

·       Illuminates one’s inner operating system

Intent: To explore new ways of being and what it takes to embody them and live them out.

Belief: An expanded or shifted way of being, generates the desired results and outcomes.

What is the Benefit of Transformational Coaching

Improved self-awareness

According to BetterUp Labs, transformational coaching pushes you to discover your true desires, regardless of what external pressures, like family members or society, may want. What’s more, this style of coaching process brings you in touch with your talents, reminding you that you can embrace life-changing self-improvements that drive personal satisfaction. With this, you can identify and plan to achieve your ultimate goals. 

A greater sense of possibility

You might rule out options that seem out of reach. But this doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t achieve those goals. Your mind may just be blocking you from seeing a way forward.

Transformational coaching, and its immense power to help you recognize your strengths, can show you how to map out a realistic path toward a new reality. And it doesn’t hurt to have a coach as a motivator and reminder that you can shift your outlook. 

A “village” mentality

The famous adage “it takes a village” refers to the power of having a community that supports your journey. Transformational coaching thrives off this idea, reminding you that significant change doesn’t solely depend on you — you’re allowed to ask for help.

And everyone needs support from time to time. Over 43% of Americans have sought coaching support because they wished their life looked differently and needed guidance before taking the next steps.

Transformational Life Coaching Also Provides

• Increased confidence and clarity about your God-given purpose

• Increased awareness around healthy and unhealthy personality patterns

• The support and encourage to look inward and begin healing unhealthy thought processes

• Support in recognizing, acknowledging, navigating through and healing generational patterns & propensities that have informed your choices

• Accountability during setbacks and challenges

• Help to move forward into the next steps in your life journey

• An encouraging partner as you pursue a joyous life

• Someone to help you see new perspectives and solutions

Who should seek transformational coaching?

Transformational coaching isn’t for everyone, and that’s a good thing. This specialized type of mentorship is for people at a very unique crossroads. You could be a fit for transformational coaching if you check off any of the following boxes: 

• You want to make a significant change but aren’t sure how or are afraid to make the wrong decision

• You know something is off in your life but can’t pinpoint the issue's root

• You’re adapting to shifts in your life and feel out of place or unsure how to move through them

• You want to understand your needs, desires, and goals more deeply

• You struggle with goal-setting because you’re unsure what you want

• You have a major personal or professional development goal (like starting your own business) that your current lifestyle doesn’t support, and you wish to make changes that align with your dream

• Your boss, partner, or loved one has given you feedback about potential changes you could make to improve your lifestyle, and you’re unsure whether you should or how to implement this advice

• You feel like you’re not good enough or sufficiently successful and want to shift your perspective and overcome limiting beliefs

• You’re burned out and need support brainstorming how to create a better work-life balance

• You’re sure about the shifts you wish to make but need an accountability partner to keep you on track

• You want to hone new behavioral skills like self-confidence and motivation

Since transformational coaching isn’t for everyone or every type of transition, here are some situations when you shouldn’t seek this service, instead finding a different mentorship niche: 

• You have a specific goal and only wish to work toward that objective without assessing other areas of your life

• A coach specializing in health, finance, or entrepreneurship could better support your current coaching needs

• You’re not feeling ready to safely or productively make a massive change

• You need mental health care, like therapy, instead of coaching (i.e., if you’re suffering from depression or anxiety)

Receiving coaching services can feel scary. You might be asked questions you feel hesitant to answer that push you to do hard things, like taking a leap of faith when making a career change or setting healthy boundaries when needed with people you care about. But STICK WITH IT and embrace the discomfort until leaving your comfort zone actually becomes comfortable.

Stick with our guidance to create better habits, because the outcome is worthwhile. You stand to gain a completely transformed outlook on life along with extensive growth in your personal and professional life.

How does Coaching Work?

Coaching is done via Zoom or Phone.  Each session is at least 45 minutes and designed to help you move forward with your specific transformational goals.  In between those sessions, you can email or text me and you’ll also be given assignments to complete that will help you to move forward in transformation.    

Coaching can also be conducted in group sessions where available.

What is the investment?

We offer a free 30 consultation by appointment; Coaching packages start $1200.00 for a 3-month coaching partnership agreement, which includes three 45 minute sessions (one session per week) and unlimited email support between sessions.  

We receive payment through PayPal, CashApp, Venmo or Zelle, paid in full prior to our first session, unless otherwise decided upon by us.

How can I get started?

One of the first things I will teach you as your coach is to overcome the temptation to let fear win by not making choices.  Together we dig deep to unearth your authentic self and we will soar to the life you’ve always wanted.  You will learn to see yourself as your best and highest self and visualize the life you desire to live.  You learn to see the end result and maybe for the first time, really feel alive.  Expecting greatness & making outrageous requests of life, will become the norm, rather than something you avoid.

So, whether it be discovering your purpose, changing relationships, physical healing, parenting, or financial prosperity, you can vision living life in abundance & really achieve it.

The lyrics to one of my favorite songs describes the challenge our coaching experience will present:

I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance
Never settle for the path of least resistance
Living might mean taking chances
But they're worth taking
Lovin' might be a mistake
But it's worth making
Don't let some hell bent heart
Leave you bitter
When you come close to selling out
Reconsider
Give the heavens above
More than just a passing glance

And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
I hope you dance

LET’S DANCE?

Personal Transformational Life Coaching:

• Discover how your strengths and purpose can propel your life forward.

• Do you know where you want to be in five years?

• What are the obstacles keeping you stuck? 

• Have you lost hope?

• Where is your focus? 

• What do you really believe? 

• Do you have questions for God?

• Discover life balance.

Group Coaching:

• Small groups will explore purpose

• Support each other in eliminating obstacles 

• Exploring & examining your beliefs

• Small groups can also bring clarity and focus to a particular issue, such as single motherhood or how women view themselves.

If we can live life consciously and authentically—understanding that things do not happen to us, but rather for us—we can use everything that comes into our experience to our benefit. We can locate all the barriers that keep us from beauty, love, abundance, intimacy, joy, and good health.

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, he can achieve.” - Napolean Hill

Let’s begin to do the work to achieve the life you imagine yourself living.