If you’re reading this blog, you may not need to ask that question. But, maybe you do!
Until I reached my 40s, and started thinking about what I REALLY wanted to be when I grew up, I might have had the same reaction if someone suggested hiring a life coach. My mother, my husband, my best friend–these people were my resource for solving life’s thorny issues.
Firmly on a path that was chosen in college, augmented and adjusted slightly, I was busy raising my children and figuring out how to balance the hours in the day between my corporate job, which required travel and intense hours, and my family. It never crossed my mind, as a woman in that nurturing stage of my life, that the course that I was following might be something I could change dramatically.
Yet as the girls grew, and I became adept at certain entrepreneurial nuances of my mid-management level position, I embraced my career maturity, and began to get an itch–to go out on my own! However, having no idea how to scratch it, and with the inertia of everyday life to fight against, it remained a dream, untouched. Until I met a life coach (who happens to be Lisa Discullio, one of the WCC coaches–and through her encouragement, and her detached view of my new vision of myself, I came to realize this dream was reachable.
Does this ring true for you? If you’re a woman whose children are beginning to strike out on their own, and turn “indie” on you, and your dreams are tickling you like a feather, or one of those middle-of-the-night throat tickles that WON’T go away, I encourage you to begin to play with the idea of having a life coach.
The coach isn’t your therapist; they won’t figure out for you what childhood issue may be coloring your view of the world today. What they WILL do is help you figure out how you can succeed at whatever itch you need to scratch, whether its career, business, a family adventure–whatever.
I highly recommend a unique opportunity to try it out: at one of our groups Retreats, which we now hold twice each year. We’re just opening registration for the Spring Retreat, which even gives you an opportunity for an overnight getaway to spend with LIKE MINDED WOMEN–what a treat–at Capital Retreat Center, a unique retreat center in Pennsylvania.
The coaches do free sample “coaching” sessions that you can sign up for at the retreat, so its a wonderful way to check out the concept!
Don’t let that tickle get away from you, or quelch it with a cough drop. Listen to it–for the rest of your life, you’ll be glad you did!