What is Life Coaching? Rachel Devine
Sometimes we need to evaluate where our life is going and how we can get there. Living in a day to day routine stifles growth and potential. It’s like being on a hamster wheel, day in an day out, running furiously and getting nowhere. At a certain point you might ask yourself, is this all there is to my life? Well, I can tell you life can be much more than the daily routine. And a life coach can definitely help.
Life coaches are personal growth guides who help individuals achieve their goals, overcome obstacles, and unlock their full potential. In today's fast-paced world, it's easy to feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure of your next steps. A life coach provides the support, accountability, and proven strategies to help you rediscover your passion, redefine your purpose, and transform your life in order to live your best life.
Sometimes we need to evaluate where our life is going and how we can get there. Living in a day to day routine stifles growth and potential. It’s like being on a hamster wheel, day in an day out, running furiously and getting nowhere. At a certain point you might ask yourself, is this all there is to my life? Well, I can tell you life can be much more than the daily routine. And a life coach can definitely help.
Life coaches are personal growth guides who help individuals achieve their goals, overcome obstacles, and unlock their full potential. In today's fast-paced world, it's easy to feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure of your next steps. A life coach provides the support, accountability, and proven strategies to help you rediscover your passion, redefine your purpose, and transform your life in order to live your best life.
In Leo Tolstoy’s book, The Death of Ivan Illich, Ivan lived a mediocre life in a loveless marriage. He found himself with a fatal illness in his mid-forties. As he was lying on his deathbed he said these horrifying words, “No matter how often I may be told, “You cannot understand the meaning of life so do not think about it, but live it," I can no longer do it: I have already done it too long. I cannot now help seeing day and night going round and bringing me to death. That is all I see, for that alone is true. All else is false.”
Unfortunately, Ivan died with regrets over not living his best life.
It’s crucial to live your life on purpose and with meaning.
A life coach can also help you get through challenges in life, from grief, divorce, relationship issues, family strife, etc.
Let’s explore more details about life coaching. Let’s look at what a life coach can do to transform your life with purpose.
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What is a life coach?
A life coach is a professional mentor who partners with clients to help them identify and work towards their personal and professional goals. Unlike a therapist who focuses on past traumas, a life coach takes a forward-looking approach, empowering you to create an actionable roadmap for success. Through one-on-one sessions, a life coach acts as your personal cheerleader, strategist, and accountability partner. A life coach is also a mentor when life’s problems arise, helping you to cope and get through these challenging times.
A life coach offers hope.
What are the benefits of life coaching:
Gain Clarity and Focus: Life coaches help you gain clarity on your values, priorities, and aspirations, enabling you to set meaningful goals and stay focused on what truly matters.
Overcome Obstacles and Limiting Beliefs: By identifying and challenging self-limiting beliefs and negative thought patterns, a life coach equips you with the tools to overcome obstacles and break through barriers that have been holding you back.
Develop Effective Strategies: Life coaches provide personalized strategies and action plans tailored to your unique circumstances, ensuring you have a clear roadmap to achieve your desired outcomes.
Enhance Accountability: Regular check-ins and accountability measures help you stay on track, motivated, and committed to your goals, increasing your chances of success.
Improve Work-Life Balance: With a life coach's guidance, you can learn to prioritize self-care, set healthy boundaries, and create a harmonious balance between your personal and professional lives.
Help in overcoming obstacles in life: A life coach can walk with you during difficult times and give you fresh insights into overcoming obstacles in life. The obstacles might be the grief from the loss of a loved one, divorce, loss of a job, relationship issues, etc.
Transform your life with a life coach.
How life coaching can Transform Your Life:
Life coaching is a transformative journey that empowers you to unlock your full potential and live your best life. It helps you move past challenges and obstacles to clear the path to success. By working with a skilled life coach, you'll gain valuable insights, develop effective strategies, and cultivate the mindset and habits necessary for inner healing, sustainable growth, and success.
Whether you're seeking career advancement, personal growth, improved relationships, overcoming obstacles, or a better work-life balance, a life coach can provide the personalized support and guidance you need to achieve your aspirations. Embrace the opportunity to redefine your path, overcome limitations, and create the life you truly desire with the help of a dedicated life coach. Because at the end of your life you want to leave a legacy behind, not regrets for not living your best life.
Rachel Devine is the author of a new book, Discover the Power of the Secret Within - Healing your Inner Child to Manifest your Dreams.
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What is an Emotional Trigger? And How to Deal with them - Rachel Devine
Have you ever been around someone who reacted to a minor situation in a way that was over the top? Have you ever been around a person whose anger is way out of proportion to the angry event? Or perhaps you were around an adult who has violent tendencies. These people are experiencing emotional triggers. Emotional triggers come out of left field and instill havoc in ones psyche. Inner healing is the key to getting rid of the triggers. I know, because I experienced my own share of emotional triggers and I can tell you first hand they can be overwhelming. I did a ton of research on emotional triggers that I share with you.
Let’s explore emotional triggers in detail and see how to deal with them.
Have you ever been around someone who reacted to a minor situation in a way that was over the top? Have you ever been around a person whose anger is way out of proportion to the angry event? Or perhaps you were around an adult who has violent tendencies. These people are experiencing emotional triggers. Emotional triggers come out of left field and instill havoc in ones psyche. Inner healing is the key to getting rid of the triggers. I know, because I experienced my own share of emotional triggers and I can tell you first hand they can be overwhelming. I did a ton of research on emotional triggers that I share with you.
Let’s explore emotional triggers in detail and see how to deal with them.
What are emotional triggers?
Emotional triggers are sudden fear, anger, panic, or sadness, grief, feelings of being overwhelmed, out of control, abandoned, or helpless. They come out of left field as flashbacks, which could involve reliving a memory, emotions, physical sensations or physical symptoms such as a racing heart, rapid breathing, or shaking.
Triggers can stem from many disorders, from obsessive-compulsive disorder to substance abuse to PTSD, depression, and anxiety to name a few. Part of root the cause can be traced back to childhood trauma and experiences.
A person’s strong reaction to being triggered may come as a surprise to others because the response seems out of proportion to the stimulus. But this is because the triggered individual is mentally reliving the original trauma.
For example, an adult who experienced fear of abandonment as a child might feel triggered by an unanswered text. The uncertainty of why they didn’t receive a response may cause them to relive feelings of abandonment, that come unexpectedly.
What causes emotional triggers?:
Anniversaries of traumatic events (car accident, death in the family, divorce or other trauma)
Certain locations, buildings, or environments are associated with trauma
Specific sounds (sirens, screams, gunshots, etc.)
Particular smells (smoke, alcohol, perfume, etc.)
Seeing certain people or types of people
Relationship conflicts or dynamics reminiscent of past abuse
Media depictions of violence, war, abuse, etc.
Physical or medical situations that feel threatening
Being fired from a job
Relationship breakup
Sudden death of a loved one or pet
Any trauma, minor or major, from childhood
Intense arguments
What are emotional responses to triggers?:
Anxiety/panic attacks
Feelings of terror, dread, or impending disaster
Anger/rage that is out of control or violent
Sadness/depressive episodes
Shame/feeling worthless
Detachment/dissociation
Flashbacks/intrusive memories
Physical reactions (shaking, sweating, nausea, etc.)
Avoidance of triggers or numbing emotions
Hypervigilance or being on high alert
Difficulties with emotional regulation
Self-destructive behaviors
Relationship conflicts
The emotional responses can be highly intense and feel disconnected from the present circumstances. Managing triggers often requires recognizing when one is triggered, using grounding techniques, and allowing the wave of emotion to peak and eventually subside. When the actual trigger is happening, it’s hard to grab a tool to cope with it. Having a good therapist around can help tremendously. Especially a therapist who specializes in this type of trauma response.
How to cope with emotional triggers:
While emotional triggers can be disturbing, there are strategies that can help minimize their impact:
Identify your triggers: Reflect on the situations, cues, or thoughts that seem to spark excessive emotional responses. Understanding your personal triggers is the first step.
Breathe: When triggered, practice deep breathing exercises to calm your body's stress response. Slowing your breathing can short-circuit a panic episode. Inhale for 4 seconds. Hold 4. Exhale 4. Repeat. Or breathe into a paper bag. Concentrate on the breaths as a distraction.
Use grounding techniques: engage your senses by touching a textured object, smelling something pleasant, or listening to soothing music. This shifts your focus to the present moment.
Reframe your thoughts: Remind yourself that you are not actually in danger in this moment. The trigger has activated an inappropriate fear response based on past events and in the present moment cannot harm you.
Reach out for support: Discuss triggers with a therapist, a friend or life coach, so you can process the emotions when they arise in a safe environment. A therapist is crucial to have.
Get help: Consider professional treatment. For PTSD sufferers, trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy, or EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing), can effectively treat triggers.
Techniques: Another great technique therapists use is brainspotting. Look for a therapist who specializes in this technique.
Talk it out: Life coach can guide you and help talk things out.
In closing, from my own experience, processing any emotional triggers is the way to eliminate them from coming back. The more you can work on each emotional trigger the better you will be. Left unchecked, these triggers can cause havoc in your life. With patience and professional guidance, emotional triggers can be defused before they spiral into more severe anxiety or traumatic responses. The key is developing healthy coping strategies to manage and ultimately desensitize these exaggerated fear reactions rooted in past hurt. And it’s imperative to heal the inner child, which is the root of most triggers. I can’t stress enough the importance of getting a good therapist or life coach to help cope with triggers.
Rachel Devine is the author of, Discover the Power of the Secret Within - Healing your Inner Child to Manifest your Dreams.