What is a Life Coach
- A Virtual Life Coach
helps the individual define their own path to recovery wellness for individuals and families to discover learning effective methods of communicating, setting limits with love, and helping your loved one find their own motivation to change - Life coaching
is designed to alleviate the stress, fear and challenges individuals and families suffer when trying to help their loved on through their addiction and recovery- Encourage, Motivate, Cheerleader
- Ally and Confidant
- Truth Teller
- Problem Solver
- Resource Broker
- Advocate
- What a virtual life coach is not
- Therapist/Psychologist- we do not treat mental illness, mood disorders, or anxiety
- Clinician
- Medical Practitioner
- Treatment Specialist
- Sponsor
- Mediator
- Difference between a therapist and a life coach
- A therapist is good for the past, and a coach is food for the future. Many times, people have both
- A therapist assesses, diagnose, and tret mental illness
- A therapist often focusses their work on identifying and reducing symptoms
- A life coach is someone who acts as a mentor to help you create lasing changes, break free, and get “unstuck” from your problems
- A life coach motivates and encourages people to achieve specific goals
- What you can expect from your life coach
- The primary goal of your life coach will be to help you look at where you are, where you want to be, and how to get from point A to point B
- Support for you and or your family to help your loved ones suffering with addiction. Whether in early recovery or in the throes of addiction
- Help you change the way you think and provide to you an outside perspective
- Make an action plan to initiate positive change
- Improve communication
- Improve self-esteem
- Reframe past experiences with a strong focus on making changes for the present and future
- Make changes for your present and future outcomes