As the seasons change, so do we. This time of year offers a chance to check in on our own rhythms and set intentions. It can be an opportunity to reset your health, organize your home, prioritize relationships, and more. The support of a coach can make all the difference in creating a life filled with true purpose and joy. A coach can help you dig deeper within yourself to discover your desires and identify the steps to making them a reality.
Coaches can help you get out of your comfort zone and grow in a way that impacts every aspect of your life. During the initial session, big questions can lead to deep answers, creating a safe space for people to explore what they truly want. Sometimes, a coach can be the only one who does not have an attachment to someone’s life path. Coaches are there to listen, cocreate a plan, and hold you accountable for the time it takes it to manifest.
Benefits of Hiring a Life Coach
- Navigate and resolve conflict. Conflict resolution is a skill we may not learn in school or from our family. When people have the tools needed to navigate conflict, they can feel a greater sense of inner peace and connection. Learning when and how to repair after someone has been hurt can change workplace environments and entire families in positive ways.
- Learn how to have conversations that deepen intimacy with others. Knowing when and how to ask someone you care about to talk about things that may be hard is crucial for intimacy, yet many of us still avoid difficult conversations.
- Stretch yourself and your actions beyond your comfort zone. Nothing we really want is in our comfort zone. As humans, we must stretch to truly reach the things we desire. A coach can help make it less scary to step into growth.
- Frame powerful questions that evoke leadership. Leading others is a skill set that can always be polished. Whether you are leading a work team, a family, or an organization. Learning how to lead with your heart can bring out the best in your team.
- Create accountability. Knowing what you want is one thing; having the accountability to follow through is another. Hiring a coach who is invested in what you are creating can make all the difference. Coaches can hold onto your vision and gently guide you back to what you truly want.
As life has become faster-paced and more complex, people have become action-oriented. We are results-driven, valuing doing over being. Learning how to slow down and get back to being is vital. Being with ourselves, our thoughts, in nature, and in sync with our own internal rhythms.
Combining plant allies via aromatherapy with coaching can be an amazing catalyst for change; it can help people shift into a new paradigm even more quickly. Blue chamomile can serve to help open the throat to express what they have been holding back. Roots such as ginger and vetiver help to stay grounded even though life may be challenging. People who are starting over or trying something new may benefit from seeds, such as carrot seeds or cardamom pods.
Aromatherapy can also help people connect to an energy they want more of in their lives. Meditating with a scent can help people to connect to that part of themselves. The rind of citrus can be used to feel safe and protected.
As our society deals with new levels of stress in the home, workplace, and world, it is more important than ever to develop the skills to resolve conflicts and create intimacy. Aromatherapy and coaching offer tools to add to our repertoire as we navigate this new world. When used in combination, we can unlock pieces of ourselves that need healing and accelerate our growth.
Susan Cote, owner of Everyday Harvest LLC, is an aromatherapist and certified life coach, attending the Co-Active Training Institute for a two-year intensive program. She offers both one-on-one and group coaching and, using Wisdom of the Earth medicinal-grade essential oils, also leads aromatherapy certification workshops in CT. [email protected]
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