Frequently Asked Questions.
What are the Benefits of Coaching?
Increases your well-being
Looks to your future and your options
Inspires you to discover your passion, new purpose and direction
Assists you to set goals and achieve them
Supports creation of healthy thought patterns
Motivates you to live forward
Keeps you accountable
Improves your self-awareness and understanding
Overcome your limiting beliefs
Builds your confidence and self-belief
Helps you reach your potential
Improves balance in life and productivity
Educates you to know how to use tools and exercises in the future
Connection
How does Coaching differ from Counseling?
A grief coach is a professional who can provide expert information about grief, but the focus is to support people who are grieving achieve their goals in a way that works best for them. A grief coach empowers individuals to resolve future challenges on their own and does not give advice, as advice does not create renewal. A Certified Master Grief Coach means the coach understands grief expert knowledge, is skilled in supporting clients to reach personal goals and has specialized insight from working with grieving clients.
Licensed therapists are instrumental in helping clients using proven methods based on research to improve mental illness or any aspects of a client’s life. Because grief is not a part of a standard psychology curriculum, not all therapists meet the expectations of a person grieving.
Ultimately, therapy is about processing past trauma and how it’s disrupting your present life while coaching is non-clinical, about what you desire to change and how your life can evolve.
How is Grief Defined?
Grief Recovery Institute: Grief is the normal and natural reaction to loss. Grief is the conflicting feelings caused by the end of or change in any familiar pattern of behavior.
Wikipedia: Grief is a multifaceted response to loss of someone or something that has died, to which a bond or affection was formed. Although conventionally focused on the emotional response to loss, it also has physical, cognitive, behavioral, social, cultural and philosophical dimensions. While the terms are often used interchangeably, bereavement refers to the state of loss, and grief is the reaction to that loss.
Mayoclinic: Grief is both a universal and a personal experience. Individual experiences of grief vary and are influenced by the nature of the loss. Experts advise those grieving to realize they can’t control the process and to prepare for varying stages of grief.
What is Compassionate Grief Coaching Based in Neuroscience?
Understanding how your brain works empowers you to create a renewed life after loss, instead of being in bondage to your negative and painful thoughts. You are not being punished, damaged or cursed because of the unimaginable things that have happened in your life. Loss, tragedy and grief does not happen to you to later be a lesson learned either. There is no silver lining in grief. Grief cannot be fixed, but carried and integrated into your new life.
Through learning the differences of conscious and unconscious thoughts, you will learn that thought creates and triggers emotions. If you do not consciously choose your thoughts, your subconscious mind will immediately take over and produce your undesired programmed thoughts. You can always change your unconstructive thoughts to thoughts you desire and live the life you want rather than the one you programmed. You can take your power back. You can mindfully and repetitively identify unconstructive thoughts and move your focus to a new thought followed by an action, ultimately replacing unwanted thoughts and creating the lasting change of not feeling overwhelmed by suffering. With continued practice, you will realize how natural and how much better you feel to release your current emotion instead of being in a negative thought loop about traumatic events. The more we think and/or do the same thing, by infiuence or choice, the stronger it becomes a habit and belief.
Your brain can change at any age through a process called neuroplasticity. As the brain grows and changes moment to moment, choosing supportive life goals can help you move past limiting beliefs and build resilience. By integrating neuroscience, you will benefit from brain-based grief coaching in both death losses and living losses using tools and exercises.
Compassionate Grief NeuroCoaching helps teach you, support you, inspire you and guide you to intentionally focus on desired thoughts creating new subconscious programming so you will feel joy again while uprooting yourself and rising through grief.
“Transformation isn’t sweet and bright. It’s a dark and murky, painful pushing. An unraveling of untruths you’ve carried in your body. A practice in facing your own created demons {and limited beliefs}. A complete uprooting before becoming.”