Personal Growth
Personal Growth covers the physical, mental, emotional and even spiritual sides to our lives. Whatever area of life you would like to focus on enriching the quality of then I am here to help support you on that journey.
Mental Health Coaching
Eventually Life throws pretty much everything at us. Births, deaths, marriages, and everything in between. Regardless of our past or present personal circumstances, we are surrounded by and constantly subject to, negative inputs. Causing us to be distracted from what we might be doing and encouraging an experienced state of alarm. On top of this we are wired to spot negativity and danger, its a survival mechanism, and it's been an extremely valuable one.
All of this can leave us feeling overwhelmed and if we are not actively and regularly taking positive action for our mental landscape we will invariably find ourselves dragged backwards, risking persistent high levels of stress, anxiety, low mood and frustration.
These moods severely impact our quality of life and the experience of those closest to us.
Working together on your mental strength, resilience & flexibility will help you more effectively manage the challenges life throws at you. Whether you are living with anxiety, stress, overwhelming frustration or low mood bordering on depression, or simply looking to give your mental landscape better tools to tackle whatever the future might bring, investing in your mental and emotional health is something that will pay dividends over and over and over.
Life Stage Coaching
Whether your are struggling in your relationship, with your children, your career, or whether it is the prospect of you or your parents getting older, having access to simple and effective tools and processes and deepening your understanding of practical human psychology will make a meaningful difference to your experience and your ability to make discerning decisions for your future.
There is no dark art or lost secret to be revealed, it is simply a matter of applying solid and proven principles to your self and the relationships you are looking to improve.
Simple is not to confused with easy. Relationships are hard, whether its our relationship with ourselves or our experience with others. It will take courage and persistence in conjunction with the skills and tools you will learn. And that is where I am here to support you.
Mindfulness
"What is mindfulness?" Is a question I regularly here. It is a word used increasingly frequently and there is justifiably more and more interest in this skill.
But what is it?
At it's heart, mindfulness is the development of insight or wisdom. It is a skill that anyone can learn and like all skills it can feel fiddly and awkward at first but the more you practice the better you become.
Mindfulness helps improve our focus and attention and critically, helps us change the relationship with our thoughts, feelings and emotions.
It is important to realise that mindfulness is not about stopping thoughts, or stopping unpleasant emotions. Instead it helps us see the thoughts and emotions for what they are, and avoid attaching our identity to them.
It can be both simple and frustration as an intellectual concept, but you cannot simply understand it intellectually, you have to practice and embody the practice.
It truly is an exciting and wonderful skill to embark on with significant benefits for you and for those you love.
Personal Training
I whole heartedly believe that we need to nurture and treat our physical body with respect to ensure it can support us for as much of our journey as possible. I also believe that if we neglect our physical wellbeing it is unlikely we will be able to sustain a healthy mental outlook. We simply cannot separate body and mind on long term basis. There needs to be a symbiotic harmony.
I encourage people to be as strong and as flexible as reasonably possible to give them the best foundation for the journey ahead no matter where that may take them.
I specialise in helping people with challenging personal circumstances. I have worked with all sorts of interesting people ranging from paraplegic, to joint replacements, people managing Parkinson's Disease or diabetes, to back surgeries and slipped discs. I even work with healthy, traditionally able bodied people to.
Perhaps you have health concerns which limit your current ability to be active or an injury which you haven't quite been able to work around? Or perhaps you recognise that you need to make changes and simply don't know where to start?
I provide simple, safe and effective tools which can be done effectively in the home environment with minimal equipment.
Breathwork
Breathwork is a wonderfully simple tool that can completely transform your sense of wellbeing. It is always available to us and can improve our energy levels and our mood.
It may sound surprising but most people are not breathing efficiently. In fact many are breathing dysfunctional by breathing through the mouth, not using the diaphragm correctly and over breathing. This combination creates stress responses in the body and long term this can damage health and sleep cycles.
There are health benefits to effective breathing and this improves lung function and our ability to utilise our bodies innate anti viral and anti microbial structures.
