To be a trusted coach is quite something. I offer clients a confidential, non-judgemental and supportive space in which they can really, really, talk. Perhaps for the first time in their lives – they know they will really be heard.
Whilst coaching can involve some learning in specific areas, more generally I am here to help my clients make changes. Simple, easy, positive changes. I match my client’s pace, every client is unique and has different needs.
My approach to coaching clients with disordered eating is to gently help them build confidence through tools and knowledge. To learn to listen to, and trust the body and soul. Sometimes this means bucking the trend of our crazy messed up food world, sometimes it means having the courage to be different, perhaps saying ‘no’ to unhelpful people or practices. And sometimes movement coaching comes into the coaching conversation.
It is unusual for a coach to work with both disordered/ emotional eating, and non-diet weight loss. This is delicate. And of course the impact of the Weight-Loss drugs (GLP-1 drugs such as Mounjaro) is increasingly significant. I support my clients whether they are taking them, have taken them, or don’t want to take them. I offer a calm and steady approach to building a sustainable way of gradually introducing changes to their lifestyle that can be there for life – to help lose and then (the harder part) maintain the fat loss.
I do believe that wanting to be in a smaller body, even with a past history of Disordered Eating, is something that a person has a right to want – as long as the intentions are sound and valid.
Whilst I coach men, couples and groups, most of my clients are women. And so the role is hormones is HUGE. Rarely can hormones be left outside of the coaching room. Together we can do our best to acknowledge, support, respect the power of those hormones.
