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.
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. 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, however it can be done. 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.
As a Recovery Coach, I partner clients questioning the role of alcohol in their lives. Whether it is causing more harm than ‘good’, and the starting to notice the headspace this relationship with booze takes up. Uneasy, yet scared to try to stop. Perhaps this is alongside a difficult relationship with food too, or maybe other daily ‘props’ – caffeine, screens, online shopping, dieting / rigid exercise plans, etc. Basically I help people try to live their life in the present, without getting through the day feeling like they ‘need’ their fix or fixes.
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.
