Wholistic Woman Retreats (WWR) is a community of women who are interested in personal and professional growth. WWR is run and led by a team of mid-atlantic area professional coaches who provide skillful leadership aimed at teaching and guiding women to greater fulfillment through retreats, workshops, and speaking engagements. WWR has recently added an affiliate coach program to what they have to offer. This program is designed to support professional coaches who want to be part of a supportive, nurturing team. It is also designed to be a place where the woman looking to work with a professional coach can go to find the one that will best fit her needs.
Today we want to introduce you to Liz King, one of our new affiliate coaches. What follows is a question and answer dialog with Liz to help you get to know her.
Tell us a little bit about yourself.
I am married to a wonderful, loving, and extremely supportive husband. He and my two beautiful and energetic step daughters add so much joy to my life. We have recently settled in Frederick after moving around the majority of our lives and both feel like we are home here. Besides my family and faith, the three things that get me most excited in life are traveling, running, and helping women get healthy. I have managed to combine these passions over the last 15 years through my work coaching and teaching women and youth both internationally and locally.
I have been formally coaching for five years although I’ve spent most of my professional life in this capacity without realizing that it was an actual profession. Before I began coaching, I spent six years working internationally for humanitarian aid and missions organizations. I taught English and Biblical studies in many African and Asian countries, and provided awareness training and after care for women and children enslaved in human trafficking. I still have a part of my heart in Africa and hope to be able to travel there once again in the near future.
Why did you decide to become an affiliate coach with Wholistic Woman Retreats?
From the very first time I took part in a WWR event, I felt I belonged in this community. I loved the encouraging, motivating, and honest atmosphere I experienced at the Be Courageous Retreat I attended. Since then I have been able to get to know the coaches personally and discovered that the mission of WWR is upheld by each one of them personally and professionally, and their heart’s desire is to see women become whole. This is very close to my heart and in line with my professional mission. It just felt like a natural fit. I believe collaboration is essential to growth and couldn’t imagine missing an opportunity to work alongside all of the inspiring women of the Wholistic Woman Community.
Have you found your One Word for 2015? If so, what is it and what does it mean to you?
My One Word for 2015 is FAITH. Each day we encounter opportunities to take a leap of faith; to take risks and challenge ourselves to step out of our comfort zone into the unknown. Sometimes these are very large leaps and sometimes they are small steps. However, both take an element of courage and for me that courage comes from my personal faith that God has my back. My word is challenging me to look for opportunities each day to be a little uncomfortable, to do something I know I should do, even if it is not easy. I am confident that in doing this, it will bring growth in my life as well as hold the potential to help others. I make the choice to put my faith in God on a daily basis and to walk out the things I believe He is calling me to do, even when they are scary. I like the quote, “Do It Afraid” because it reminds me that courage is not the absence of fear, but it is triumphing over it by doing it afraid. I am growing my faith muscle by facing my fears and by taking on challenges.
Our group is for “women on the grow”. Where are you growing? How has your involvement with Wholistic Woman Retreats impacted this?
I am growing in my practice of rejecting perfectionism. This, I’m finding, has been a life long journey. One I have done really well at in some seasons and very poorly other times. However, I have recently discovered the freedom in rejecting the voices that try to enforce perfectionism in my daily life. This is a daily battle and one that I find the more I rely on God’s strength and grace in my life becomes a little more doable. It requires replacing destructive thoughts with positive and encouraging self-talk…I am working on this daily.
What is a really good piece of advice you’ve received that you continue to use today?
To acknowledge my blessings out loud every morning before I get out of bed.
To live each day as if it was your last.
To ask myself, “If I knew I couldn’t fail, what would I do with my life?”
Tell us about your coaching practice…What’s your niche? Who is your ideal client? How can people find you if they’d like to work with you?
I work with women of all ages to help her create healthy lives through mental, physical, and spiritual wholeness. This looks differently for every client and I enjoy coming alongside each woman at the point in her journey where she has decided it is time to get healthy and to reach her personal or professional goals. I love helping women discover her potential, whether through personal training where she learns that working out is actually fun, or coaching her through a life transition where she learns she is stronger and more capable than she thought.
Women can visit my website: www.coaching4her.com to find out more information. They can also email me at [email protected] or call (240) 397-6437 with any specific questions or for more information.