A Testimony to Life Coaching

“Taking personal accountability is a beautiful thing because it gives us complete control of our destinies.”

– Heather Schuck

Assessing progress

The certification process that our aspirant coaches follow, requires them to undertake substantial practice coaching, using our proprietary New Insights Life Coaching System. One of the ways in which we assess the trainee\’s progress is through one-page feedback forms that their volunteer clients submit after each session.

As you can imagine, volunteer clients sometimes choose to provide more extensive personal feedback directly to their coaches. And occasionally, we are delighted to have such detailed feedback shared openly with us. 

Client feedback

Hearing positive feedback from our trainee coaches is special … but hearing from their clients about the strides they make with coaching, is truly uplifting.

Today we are delighted to have been given the go ahead to share a letter recently written to trainee life coach Vanessa, from one of her practice clients, Elmarie.

We publish Elmarie\’s letter, unedited, below, as a testimony to what life coaching – even with a very inexperienced practitioner – can achieve. 

Elmarie\’s experience (unedited)

\”The difference coaching has made on my life is that it has enabled me to make tangible shifts in terms of my goals. In the past my desires and goals always seemed beyond arm’s length; coaching has facilitated implementing reasonable actions in order to achieve success.

Before coaching, I was incapable of actualising goals and turning them into achievable daily actions. Instead, my goals, and lack of putting them into action, would spiral into a web of procrastination, frustration and an overwhelming feeling of dissatisfaction.

In terms of my goals, my life has changed in the sense that I am able to take full control of my financial situation (Goal 1), maintain relationships with healthier boundaries in place (Goal 2) and I am emotionally healthier than I have ever been (Goal 3).

Life coaching has provided me with the skills to apply goal-setting techniques to other areas of my life; and to maintain the goals I originally started off with. It has empowered me to know that I am capable of putting my goals into action and how to turn them into smaller, achievable incremental portions.

The specific results I have enjoyed during the coaching programme is that for the first time in my life I have a healthy relationship with money. I have started a unit trust fund and have managed to diminish debt. I have also been able to contribute to my home and lifestyle arrangements.

In terms of my second goal, I have been able to free myself from past relationship patterns that were causing me pain. My boundaries in general have been solidified in terms of my own values.

On an emotional level, which relates to my third goal, I feel like a new person. Vanessa helped me see that the cause of most of my issues has to do with the severe anxiety I had been experiencing in the past few years. I feel as though I have gained my power back. This has brought relief in all areas of my life. For the first time in years, I am unafraid of living.

Should someone I know be thinking of hiring a coach, I would tell them it is absolutely the right thing to do. Not only has it helped me achieve my goals that I initially set but it has worked on a sub-conscious level in freeing me to grow and shift and evolve into a better version of myself.

In summary, coaching for me has been a life-changing experience.

At the start, I was literally debilitated by anxiety and fear. Somehow, through the task of setting realistic goals and then achieving them through daily work, practise and homework assignments, that fear started to subside. The sense of feeling completely overwhelmed by the pressures of life began to fade. Through this process, stress has waned, I feel lighter and I feel empowered to take on my life with a present mind and passionate soul.

Vanessa has been a wonderful coach. She is easy to talk to and more importantly to confide in. It isn’t easy for me to open up to anyone let alone feel like I can trust them, Vanessa however, always made me feel like I was really being heard and understood.

People close to me even became intolerant about my anxiety because it is really hard for someone to understand how chaotic and harsh it is to face fear when you have anxiety issues, yet Vanessa showed a deep empathy towards this condition and made me feel completely unjudged. Her unconditional support and guidance through this process has shifted my anxiety to a space where I no longer feel trapped by that debilitating fear.

Although I initially wanted to sort out my financial situation, in the end I truly gained far more than even that. Not only have I started to take responsibility for achieving my goals, but through it all, on a much deeper level, I have been able to mentally shift my way of thinking in all areas on my life.

Albeit a dynamic and ever-evolving wheel of life, I am left feeling confident and motivated that I am a strong capable being. Life coaching has most certainly been an empowering process and catalyst for positive change.

Thank you.\”

– Elmarie