Do you want to manage your stress? Relieve your anxiety? Boost your self-esteem?

Learn how coaching can help you take charge of your life.

Coaching can help you manage your stress

Mike is stressed. There are big changes in the air at the office, and he feels he has to work twice as hard to keep up. As a result, he is not taking lunch breaks, and missing out on his exercise routine.

He is angry and impatient with his team, and that makes the office a less pleasant place to be. He has a permanent knot of tension in his back. He brings his frustration home with him, and takes it out on his wife and children. He finds he is smoking more. He has images of losing control.

Through coaching, Mike learns to take more control. He addresses his irrational fears about losing his job, and makes small but positive changes in his work pattern. He learns to be more assertive about his needs, and to communicate with his team in a more effective way. He improves his relaxation and health. He finds that his family benefits as much as he does.

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Coaching can help relieve your anxiety

Louise is anxious. She thinks of herself as a born worrier. Even as a child she would worry about what her friends thought about her, and whether her homework was good enough.

As an adult, Louise is still worrying. She is preoccupied with negative thoughts. She finds it hard to enjoy being with her young children because she is so anxious that something bad will happen. She even worries about all the time she is spending worrying. Her relationship with her partner is suffering, and that is increasing her anxiety.

Through coaching Louise learns how her worrying is a self-perpetuating cycle. She sees that it is linked to a basic lack of confidence. She works hard on challenging her negative beliefs, using techniques discussed with her coach. She finds a visualisation technique especially helpful. She makes practical changes to her daily life. Within two months she feels a new person, in charge of her life instead of in fear for her life.

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Coaching can help boost your self-esteem

Raj has low self-esteem. He doesn’t recognise this until he has some coaching. What he does realise is that he is constantly procrastinating – putting off important tasks at work and at home.

He has to lie to get himself out of trouble. He feels bad about not tackling things, and loses himself in surfing the internet and drinking too much.

Through coaching Raj learns that he is a perfectionist. Putting things off because they cannot be perfect is linked, in his case, to a poor self-image. Challenging his negative self-beliefs is key: Raj learns to accept himself as a fallible human being rather than condemn himself as always falling short. He also builds up strategies for breaking down tasks into manageable steps, and addresses his ‘avoidance’ behaviours – drink and the internet.

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What next?

To make an appointment or to find out more, phone Kim Richardson on 01453 751457 or email him at kim@stroudcoaching.com

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Kim Richardson - working for your success in Stroud, Cheltenham, Gloucester and across the UK