What is Life Coaching & How Can it Help You?

What is Life Coaching?

Life Coaching is an individualized and highly transformative process of positive change. It guides clients through a journey of deep self-discovery and personal and spiritual transformation.

Perhaps you’re trying to break a bad habit(s), implement a healthier lifestyle, overcome a challenging transition, build self-esteem and confidence, navigate a difficult relationship(s), think more positively to manage stress/anxiety/overwhelm, or develop a sustainable self-care practice.

Working with a Life Coach helps you take a holistic, expanded look at all areas of your life, outline the specific changes and improvements you want to achieve, identify the obstacles preventing you from moving forward, and develop the mindset and behavioral shifts necessary to create the desired change in your life.

All areas of life improve when working with a Life Coach:

Working with a life coach helps to improve your physical health, mindset, interpersonal relationships, body image, self-esteem, career, and all other areas of life! Life Coaching will challenge, inspire, and powerfully shift you. You’ll experience greater clarity and an overall sense of direction in your life. A positive mindset starts to emerge and develop, and your perspective on things and outlook on life changes. You develop more trust in yourself, better decision-making skills, and a healthier relationship with yourself.

You’ll have increased self-awareness, self-esteem, and confidence. Your lifestyle habits will improve, and stress, anxiety, and overwhelm will decrease. Your ability to handle adversity will greatly improve, and you will become a proud version of yourself.

How to Know It’s Time to Explore the Path of Working with a Life Coach:

If you feel blocked, stuck, unmotivated, or stagnant anywhere in your life, you’re ready to speak to a life coach. Or if you can see what’s not working in your life but can’t seem to change it or make any headway on improving it. Perhaps you’re uncertain how to make the “right” decisions and worry about how others perceive your choices, but you’re looking for a sense of direction. Maybe it’s hard to hear or trust your intuition, and you fear the unknown, preventing you from taking action.

If you feel overwhelmed, drained, and unfulfilled, or if you’re consumed by negative thinking, poor self-talk, worry, anxiety, stress, and rumination, it’s time to speak with a life coach.

Working with a Life Coach helps you get unstuck in every area of life.

By identifying the obstacles standing in your way and mapping out a specific action plan to move forward, you’ll gain clarity on your goals, what you want to accomplish, and how to get there. You’ll also develop the mindset and behavior shifts necessary to make the changes you desire.

Coaching empowers you with confidence, clarity, support, and accountability. You’ll make positive, sustainable changes in all areas of your life and overcome self-imposed limitations!

Coaching is Not for Everyone

Coaching will not work if you have no interest in self-awareness, personal growth and development, or taking responsibility for your life. Blaming everything wrong in your life on everything outside of you or being unwilling to expand your perspective and see things differently, coaching won’t be effective for you.
If you’re close-minded, not coachable, or receptive to seeing things differently, unwilling to make changes or want someone else to do all the work for you, coaching won’t be the right fit for you.

Here’s Who Coaching is the Perfect Fit For:

You love personal development and geek out on personal and spiritual growth. You’re comfortable with taking responsibility for all areas of your life, even the things you wish were different. You are open to new ways of thinking, being, and doing, and willing to be coached and try new perspectives. Being ready to make changes and see hard truths about yourself is one of the tell-tale signs someone is ready for coaching. Those who are self-led, growth-driven, open, and committed to their personal path of self-discovery are the perfect fit for coaching.

Here’s a little background on my company, Stephanie Marino Coaching, and how my coaching career has evolved over the years.

The full story of how I became a coach is here, and this is the short version.

I started my company (formerly known as Real Food Pure Love) in 2013 when I was just 26 years old. For the first five years, it was a one-on-one Health Coaching service where I helped people clean up their diet, make small changes to their lifestyle, and incrementally shift their mindset so they could feel healthier and happier.

It took off really fast, and I realized quickly how deeply people craved this kind of support. They wanted so badly to make changes in their lives but didn’t know how. They were starved for connection in many ways. Underneath it all, they just wanted someone to really listen, hold their hand, and guide them toward feeling and living better.

Clients soon started referring to me as their Life Coach. As my practice grew, it evolved beyond food and nutrition into deeper soul work. I was taking people through profound paradigm shifts around self-knowing, self-discovery, and spirituality work. We explored how to cultivate sustainable self-love, self-worth, and confidence, working on challenging issues within their relationships around forgiveness, communication, and authentic expression. Clients were exploring their long-held passions and bringing more of what lit them up into their lives. Their intuition was strengthening, fears dissolving, and they were creating lives for themselves that were beyond their imagination just months prior.

My coaching career expanded me in ways that were beyond what I could’ve ever imagined.

From a very young age, my passion for teaching was a part of me. My patience to actively listen and compassion to empathize came innately. Undeniably, my desire to help people heal and rise to their fullest potential is why I was put on this earth.

My initial coach training gave me the jump-off point I needed to start down this path, and the journey has just continued to evolve since. I attribute so much of what I’ve created and the work I do with clients to my lived experience and the countless hours invested in my personal development journey.

To be a coach, you don’t need to know everything about life. When I was starting out, some people doubted me because I was so young. However, I never let that stop me. I stayed focused on what felt true in my heart and how my soul guided me. The path just continued to unfold right in front of me.

Being a good coach means listening well, asking good questions, giving good advice, and teaching skills. But more importantly, you need to have a passion for serving people deeply.

A great coach has an innate ability to help people get clear on their vision for their life.

Effective coaching imparts the necessary skills to support people in their evolution. It guides people back home to their own hearts and intuitive knowing.

One of my first mentors said, “You need to be just one step ahead of your clients.”

Being one step ahead means that I’m still figuring things out. Simultaneously, I’m deeply devoted to an ongoing journey of personal and spiritual growth. We’ll never get to a point in life where we’ve figured it all out. We’re never done learning, growing, and experiencing lessons. Life doesn’t work like that.

It’s the path that teaches the way. We learn by living, and we live through learning.

As I guide my clients toward opening their hearts, deepening their self-expression, facing their fears, trusting their intuition and the Universe, and changing their relationship with themselves and their lives, I, too, am learning all the same.

My life experiences brought me to where I am today: in deep service of healing. And I wouldn’t change a thing; it’s an extraordinary blessing.

Coaching is the most rewarding and fulfilling thing I have ever done in my life. Never is the willingness and trust it took to follow this path ever taken for granted or overlooked.

Ready to explore if working with a coach is the right step for you? Schedule your free Discovery Coaching Call today.