What is Coaching?
At Revitalized Living, we break down the meaning of a Life Coach in 3 parts. A Life Coach is someone who:
1. Challenges you to question how you approach every aspect of your life.
2. Unlocks potential so you are empowered to create anything you desire.
3. Inspires you to change the way you live day-to-day to be more aligned with who you want to be.
A Life Coach is:
a trained professional who works with clients across 3 domains of well-being, helping them see (and step into) the boldest, most empowered and alive version of themselves.
The 3 domains Life Coaches
address include:
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Physical well-being
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Emotional well-being
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Cognitive well-being
A Life Coach is:
a guide, cheerleader, accountability partner, confidante, and truth-teller who helps clients hone in on what they want and then works with them to set achievable goals to get there.
A Life Coach is NOT:
a therapist or medical professional.
Life Coaches do not analyze, diagnose, prescribe treatment, or work with clients to resolve past issues or traumas.
Life Coaches are focused on current obstacles and taking results-oriented actions to move from stuck to liberated.
What is Life Coaching?
Life Coaching is a profession wherein a client works closely with a coach over a period of time to achieve a desired outcome (or multiple outcomes). The Life Coaching field has been around for awhile now, but it’s grown in popularity in recent years, among individuals and businesses alike, as an effective tool for helping people make desired change, achieve more balance, find fulfillment, increase satisfaction in their lives, and set and meet desired goals.
By engaging in coaching, clients learn how to:
Life Coaching is a collaborative partnership between coach and client, where the coaching relationship continually gives all the power back to the client.
As Life Coaches, we hold the premise that the client knows the answers to every question or challenge they may be facing in their life—even if those answers appear to be obscured, muddled, or hidden inside.
A Life Coach’s skill lies in knowing the most empowering questions to ask to bring those answers forward, thereby expanding the menu of choices the client has to create what they want in every aspect of their lives. This is the first of our 10 paradigms for Life Coaching. To unlock the rest, download our free 10 Paradigms for Life Coaching.
**(Page information obtained from Health Coach Institute.)