Life Coaching
Life coaching for the part of your life that feels stuck
Relationships, boundaries, career, goals and new habits, worked through one-on-one on Zoom with a coach who also listens like a chaplain.
Chapter 01
What brings people to a life coach
Some people arrive with a tangible goal: a career change, a plan for the year, a habit that never sticks. Others arrive with a knot they cannot name, a relationship that keeps going the same way or a boundary they cannot seem to hold. Barb's coaching covers both. Her own list is relationships, boundaries and communication; career coaching and brainstorming; setting positive goals and new habits; and spiritual direction and purpose.
Life after divorce is a place many people land. Barb writes that it is normal to feel relief, sadness, loss, grief and anger all at once, and that it is natural to grieve the loss of the marriage you hoped for, however hard it was at the end. It does not matter whether your divorce happened ten days ago or ten years ago. In her words, it is never too soon or too late to process loss with a life coach.
Family and friends mean well, and sometimes they are too close to the story. A coach gives you a place to say all of it without judgment or criticism and then start choosing what comes next.
An old book lying open on a wooden chair beside a folded wool blanket in soft window light
Coach, mentor, chaplain: why Barb combines them
Barb draws a plain line between the two roles. A life coach is someone who helps you achieve the tangible goals you have decided upon. A mentor is someone in your corner, a cheerleader who is more focused on the personal, the professional and often the spiritual.
She brings the combination of life coach, mentor and chaplain to the table. It comes alongside the whole person: how you feel about yourself, where you are in life, where you want to be, and believing in you at the times when you do not believe in yourself. She says it sums up the unique mentors in her own life who cared unconditionally, encouraged her and believed in her, and that without them she honestly does not know where she would be. That is why she knows the combination works.
Sessions are one-on-one and online, wherever there is an internet connection. Barb became a Certified Life Coach through the Life Coach Training Institute in 2019, on top of the grief recovery and chaplaincy training behind every conversation.
Chapter 03
What changes, and what stays the same
Coaching with Barb is built on the same line she uses everywhere: tackle your past, move forward, dream again, thrive and blossom. The aim is for the decisions to be yours: a goal written in your own words, a conversation you know how to start, a habit small enough to begin this week.
What stays the same is the room: confidential, one-on-one, without judgment. If an old loss turns up in the middle of a career conversation, Barb knows what to do with it, because grief recovery is the discipline she has practised since 2004.
Not sure whether you need a coach, a mentor, or grief classes? The free 45 minute consult on Zoom is where you find out. If another kind of help would fit you better, Barb will try to help you find it.
Certified Life Coach through the Life Coach Training Institute (2019), and a Certified Advanced Grief Recovery Method Specialist™ since 2018.
If the knot has a name, start there
When a loss sits under the goals, the one-on-one Grief Recovery classes give you specific tools to complete what was left unfinished. Many people do both, and the member plans are written with that in mind.
Questions of faith and purpose?
Barb also offers Christian faith mentoring, non-denominational, with the Bible as the main source.