What do all parents want for their kids? Being happy, healthy, well-adjusted, & comfortable in their own skin, that’s what!

Let me help your child ROAR!

The adolescent years are challenging and sometimes you hit the brakes wondering. At certain points, you both may be desperate to make some progress on certain aspects in life that are creating challenges. These include decision making, creating better self-esteem, friendship woes, school obstacles, or even coping with some sadness or disappointment in life such as a death or a divorce.

I will guide your child by helping him/her to:

• Break down his/her limiting thoughts and beliefs that hinder the enjoyment of life and success
  
• Expand his/her perceptions and open up creative potentials and options
  
• Strengthen relationships with family & friends
  
• Be happier in his/her own skin
  
• Connect to his/her original instincts and embrace his/her greatness
  

Going through a major life change can shake one’s sense of identity and cause a ripple effect that can echo well through all of life’s frontiers. I will work with you to turn those overwhelming feelings of chaos into an opportunity to empower yourself and gain a new sense of control over your life.

Transition Challenges:

• Dating/Marriage/Separation/Divorce
  
• Birth/Having children
  
• Facing the empty nest – what next?
  
• Going to college
  
• Illness (yours or someone else’s)/Caregiving
  
• Death (someone else’s or yours)
  
• Job transitions (finding, losing, & changing)
  
• From a job to self-employed
  
• From work to SAH (stay at home) or SAH to back to work
  
• Work to retirement
  
• Facing homelessness
  
• In or out of addiction
  
• In or out of depression
  

The pace, weight, and intensity of modern life on all frontiers cause many of us a great deal of stress. Sometimes, strong feelings of stress can consume us to the point where we feel defeated and powerless. It is also well known that stress has an immediate effect on our health.

I will work with you to learn, practice, and apply practical strategies to take control of the stress in your life and how to cope with it without compromising your quality of life and the pursuit of your personal goals.

In my opinion, believing in yourself is modern life’s currency. Lack of self-confidence and low self-esteem affect your thoughts and behavior, your social interactions, and your success in life. Constant self-doubt can seriously pull you down and keep you from achieving your goals. I will work with you to learn, practice, and use proven strategies to create a healthy self-image and help build your self-confidence.

The Headaches of Parenting

Have you ever been close to wanting to quit your parenting job and just walk away? Have you secretly wished there was a magic wand to either turn your kids into pumpkins or transport you to some kid-free island?

Your household sometimes feels like a war zone and no matter what parenting technique you use, you don’t seem to be able to get things under control. You are mentally and physically exhausted.

Maybe you’ve read all the parenting books you could find and still feel like nothing is changing. You see that what you are doing isn’t working, but you don’t know what else to do. You feel very lonely and you often feel like a failure. How hard can this job be?

Since you have had children, you’ve become this new person you didn’t even know existed, and you don’t like her very much. Your emotions toggle between stress, anger, worry, and guilt. You feel defeated, at a loss, hopeless, and very discouraged.

Parenting is the most rewarding, challenging, meaningful, and influential job in the world. And though most of us try to do our very best, powerful emotions can be triggered that affect our interactions with our kids and our partner.

I will work with you to learn, practice, and implement effective communication skills that will benefit your entire family and help create a positive and nurturing atmosphere. Not only will you be building healthy relationships with your kids, but you will also model positive behaviors that your children will internalize and use as they grow up.

These moments are clues that you might need a parenting coach!

Solution and Results

With parent coaching, you will better understand your children’s behaviors, acquire the tools to help you handle them more effectively, and learn the skills to raise good citizens of tomorrow. Through the parent coaching process, you will feel heard, understood, and supported while reaching a state of peaceful and hopeful parenting.

Your family becomes an encouraged and cooperative unit where everyone is a proud and happy member! With parent coaching, parenting can be fun again. Don’t take our word for it! Contact us and we’ll tell you how. These are some of the issues we work on in parent coaching:

Please note: This is just a sample of some of the issues we can work on, but nothing is off-limits when it comes to parent coaching!! Want to find out if we can work on your specific parenting problem? Just contact us and we can tell you.

• Discipline that works
  
• Irresponsible children
  
• Not listening
  
• The Big Battles (i.e., eating, sleeping, brushing teeth, doing homework, cleaning up, etc.)
  
• Power struggles
  
• Fighting siblings
  
• Setting limits effectively
  
• How to use consequences
  
• Whining
  
• Chore wars
  
• Anger management & tantrums
  
• Parenting children with health issues
  
• Dealing with the modern plague: screens
  
• Co-parenting
  
• Blended families
  
• Becoming a new parent
  

Please visit our sister company for any assistance for Pediatric Sleep Training and Coaching.  www.magnoliababycompany.com

Sometimes, life throws us something which we haven’t dealt with before and don’t know how to tackle. Sometimes, they are just too big to be dealt with by ourselves. Sometimes, it’s just “too-many-too-fast” and we feel overwhelmed and unable to cope anymore. Whatever the case may be, we are left feeling lost or stuck (or both!) and definitely very discouraged. We might even feel like we are drowning and ready to give up.

Solution

In coaching, we work together to tackle your challenges, get you unstuck, and start moving you again in the direction of a better life toward your goals or even your dreams! Together, we find your values and your strengths and we tap into them to develop your courage. We transform your life challenges into personal growth and success whatever that might mean to you.

Results

When we are done working together, you will have a newfound sense of belonging, satisfaction, and fulfillment. You will feel courageous and well-equipped to handle whatever life will throw at you. Your life has meaning and direction and as a result, you feel happier. These are some of the issues we work on in life coaching:

Please note: These lists are not exhaustive. If you don’t find your personal life challenge in the lists, it’s not that we can’t work on it. It’s just that if we were to list every single life challenge there is, we’d have to write a book instead of a bulleted list. Want to know if we can work on your issue? Just contact us and ask!

Life Challenges:

• Life 101
  
• Defining new life goals
  
• Total life makeover
  
• Being at a crossroads & having to make major life decisions
  
• Confidence & self-esteem
  
• Self-knowledge & self-awareness
  
• Dissatisfaction with the way things are
  
• Unhappiness
  
• Discouragement
  
• Illness
  
• Death
  
• Anger management
  

Relationship Challenges: 

• Finding a relationship
  
• Navigating a relationship
  
• Improving a relationship
  
• Keeping a relationship
  
• Getting the love you want
  
• Leaving a relationship (i.e., separation)
  
• Divorce
  
• Rebuilding after separation or divorce
  
• Communication skills
  
• Developing self-confidence within a relationship
  

The coaching process is designed to support you while you find clarity and achieve your goals. This journey requires a strong commitment to your part. The stronger the commitment, the greater the rewards.

This is how the coaching process typically works. Please note that this is just a generalization. Each coaching client designs their very own coaching process tailored to them:

• You meet with your coach an average of three or four times per month, usually for a duration of 45–60 minutes. (Some clients may need one session to get them motivated.)
  
• These meetings can take place over the phone, in person, or via Skype.
  
• You leave these meetings with greater clarity about who you are, where you are going, and how to get there.
  
• You may also leave the conversation with “coaching homework,” which has been mutually agreed upon. This is where the power and the efficiency of coaching come into play. By having specific tasks or practices to accomplish between sessions for which there is some real accountability, you make significant and tangible progress toward your goals.
  

Something is not working in your life. You might be hurting and overwhelmed. You might be stuck and confused. Maybe you are asking yourself questions like: “What has become of me? Where am I going? Why can’t things be easy the way they used to? I feel so stuck; there has to be a better way."

You’re right! There is a better way. Things should definitely be less painful and things should certainly be easier than they are. This is not the way life is meant to be! Life is too short for “this” to continue.

Unfortunately, many essential life skills such as self-care, stress management, communication, managing relationships, or parenting are not taught in school. Yet, these skills are fundamental to leading a healthy balanced life and being emotionally resilient.

So, without having learned those skills, why would you know how to get through a difficult life transition? How would you know how to communicate with your spouse, children, or co-workers in a productive manner? How can you better understand yourself, feel courageous, and lead a productive life?

If you answer YES to any of these questions:

• Are you having trouble making a huge life-changing decision?
  
• Did life just throw you a curve ball, or did you just go through a major life transition, and are you left gasping for air and wondering how you are going to pick up the pieces?
  
• Do you sometimes feel overly critical of yourself or others?
  
• Would you like to go through life with more self-knowledge, self-confidence, and courage?
  
• Would you like to simply be happier and live a more fulfilling and whole life?
  

Or NO to any of these:

• Do you like your life?
  
• Do you like yourself? Do you even really know yourself?
  
• Are you in harmony?
  
• Are you at peace?
  
• Do you feel satisfied with most aspects of your life (i.e., relationships, parenting, work/career, finances, environment, etc.)?
  

...you have answered the question “why work with a coach?”! So, how do you get from where you are right now to where you want to be? With coaching, you will:

• Become fully aware and clear about who you really are, leading to a sense of wholeness
  
  
• Be more fully self-accepting, giving you a sense of inner peace and well-being, which allows you to focus on contributing to the world around you
  
  
• Be living the life you really want and love, making you feel like you are in flow: vibrant and alive
  
  
• Be a courageous human being, realizing that you have choices and having confidence in your abilities. From this place of courage, you will be able to tackle challenges head-on and grow from them versus letting them define and rule you
  
  
• Be in harmony and in flow with yourself, your life, and others
  
  
• Have a strong sense that you “fit in” and belong, allowing you to live life fully and passionately
  

These transformations happen as your coach fulfills different roles: sometimes a sports coach who pushes you beyond your own limits; sometimes your personal cheerleader who encourages you like you have never been encouraged before; sometimes even a midwife who helps give birth to a new you; and always a catalyst with whom you co-create the changes you are yearning for.

People choose to work with a life coach for a variety of reasons. Here are some of the reasons you might be ready for a coach:

• Mindset and negative thought patterns
  
• Leadership & business skills
  
• Character development
  
• Overcoming obstacles
  
• Setting healthy boundaries
  
• Confidence & self-worth
  
• Purpose, passion, and priorities
  
• Building your faith/spirituality