You may or may not have heard about a rather new practice called life coaching. Life coaching is a little bit like therapy in the sense that you take time out of your day to speak with a trained professional about issues in your life where you need a little extra help. The life coach does not prescribe drugs or give direct advice. He or she will listen to you and ask you questions that really help open your mind to new ways you can deal with your situation. During the sessions the life coach may even help you see inside yourself to a past situation that has in some way effected you enough to make your current life decisions a struggle. Kind of like a flower, if you peel back all the layers you finally get to the bud or core. When I had the pleasure of experiencing a 30 minute session with Tracy Liebmann of Transforming Family through Family Review Network I really ended up benefiting!
Tracy called and gave me a rundown on what it is she sets out to achieve in each 45 minute session. I jumped at the chance to talk to her about a current struggle my family is dealing with which was that my one year old son has some sleep problems. We are moving into a new home and I fear that any progress we have made with him to this point will unravel and we will be back to square one, a baby who screams all night and leaves an entire family tired and cranky.
She began asking me a few really important questions that made me look deep inside myself to find the answers. Right away Tracy started “coaching” me to stop worrying about what if situations. This task alone could probably be 3 months worth of once weekly 45 minute sessions, her normal time period for working through an issue. Quickly I began to realize that my son not sleeping was not my biggest fear, my biggest fear was that he would scream and scream like my first born and I would become numb to him. I suffered from a pretty serious case of post partum depression bordering on psychosis with Jason and I feel it affected our bond, deep down I fear this will also happen with Spencer, even a year later. Tracy worked with me until I realized that maybe I have only tried everything I want to try, and since it isn’t working I may need to break out of my parenting personality to try something different.
By working with me on a personal level in just 30 minutes I felt a big improvement in my worries about Spencer’s sleeping issues. I don’t doubt that with more sessions I would soon have a sleeping baby. It isn’t magic, it’s just a really helpful way of finding the answer that is already inside of you that you just didn’t know how to find. That is what Tracy with Transforming Family can do for you.
To schedule a free 30 minute intro session or to learn more about Tracy and life coaching please visit www.transformingfamily.com
