Ep. 168 - Confidently Navigating The Line Between Therapy + Coaching

What can you do when you find yourself in a position where a client presents something they’re struggling with that you haven’t come close to resolving within yourself?

At some point we all arrive in this uncomfortable place with a client. At first, we may straight up avoid poking that bear because we feel too unqualified to support our clients through something we clearly haven’t found the answers to. But do you need to resolve everything in your life before helping a client with that same thing?

On the other side of the same coin, what can you do when your client feels so opposite to who you see yourself to be? Can you still powerfully coach someone into a deep transformation when you don’t have the ability to relate to where they are + where they’re trying to go?

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Something that feels really alive within me right now and I've witnessed being mirrored back to me from many of you is this longing for space....

...this craving for presence within that space, and the permission to take up space without feeling guilty for what we're not doing with that time.

There are many layers to this that I have personally been moving through recently that I want to share with you from personal experience in hopes that it will allow you to explore this for yourself.

I think for many of us, the idea of having space in our schedule feels like this far off fantasy. It feels like this dream scape, this poetic reality that 'one day if I work hard enough' space will be my reward. But, I know from personal experience, that is just simply not the case.  From my heart to yours, let this episode land as you need it to.

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We’ve all experienced those periods of painful disinterest, lack of desire to work towards what we say we want and overall discomfort with our present situation without the “energy” we think is required to escape it.

Especially as business owners, it’s easy to fall victim to the pressure to push forward and do something (literally anything) to numb the discomfort of staying where we are… which sometimes just means “doing” unhelpful things like scrolling, unnecessarily working and keeping our minds busy in any way we can.

In this session, we discuss what we call “burnout” and what it really is (and isn’t), why our typical approach to moving through it is temporary at best, ineffective or even harmful at worst and offer some ways you can be with yourself and explore these periods differently.

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The moment you decide as a coach that you are no longer okay skirting along the surface, offering your clients the expected external result that they've come to crave, and you actually want to take them beneath the surface to better understand the inner workings of their mind, the inner workings of their emotions and how they're orienting to the world...curiosity needs to come into play. 

In this episode, we're going to explore curiosity and awareness through the lens of coaching. 

Take this approach on your next coaching interaction and see how it lands...and if you need further support, grab the links below.

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This is a clip from our new workshop inside The Secret Garden. This month we explored strengthening our business through building community. 

In this episode, Laura takes us on a journey through a visualization practice that she guided us through in the workshop. 

This visualization is designed to tap into your value system, what you envision yourself holding experientially for your people, and creating an opportunity to experience what it might look like and feel like from the position of your client.

We recommend setting yourself up in a cozy space for this experience and allowing yourself time to process what comes up for you.

🧑🏻‍🤝‍🧑🏼Watch the full workshop replay, get personalized support, and experience The Secret Garden for yourself for 14 days free.

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In today's episode, Laura takes us through a journey of common, relatable experiences we have when we're seeking alignment in our coaching business, both internally & externally. 

If you've gone back and forth between striving for growth in your business and wanting to find more internal peace and space within yourself, listen to and save this episode for the future. 

You will go through many phases on your journey, and as Laura gently reminds us in this episode, it's all about how we are with ourselves in these moments of awareness.

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This is a clip from one of our weekly live coaching calls from inside The Secret Garden. Inspired by questions + themes from inside our community, these rooms are designed to guide your exploration of new ways of being, thinking & leading.

This week, we explore what happens within us as we start going deeper and more niched in our work. It can feel like we’re speaking to such a smaller group of people who are willing to raise their hand and admit they “have this problem” (more so than when we just ask them to raise their hand if they want to “lose 5lbs in 5 days”...)

So, how can you speak to the people who have so much shame around having the “problem” that we are proposing we have the solution to? Especially when people are so conditioned to not acknowledge the “negative” for the sake of staying positive? Tune in to this episode to find out.

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When it comes to hiring a business mentor, so many of us are used to searching for someone who we think can give us the outcomes we think we need to be successful.

Maybe that's a promise to grow our business, make a certain amount of money, or automate things so that we don't need to be 'in the weeds' and can work on other things or have more free space. We've all experienced these promises in different ways - sometimes they're helpful, and other times we learn that it's not for us.

In this episode, Laura discusses the deeper layer of hiring a business mentor and what to look out for to ensure stability within that coaching container. 

Traditional marketing tactics often make us feel small and deny us the ability to connect with the energy of the person leading the space, but it is crucial that we ask ourselves if we feel safe and seen before saying yes.

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This is a clip from one of our weekly live coaching calls from inside The Secret Garden. Inspired by questions + themes from inside our community, these rooms are designed to guide your exploration of new ways of being, thinking & leading.

This week, we jam on our experiences + learned techniques for supporting clients who put up a stone wall anytime you try to go deep with them. 

There are plenty of clients who are going to struggle opening up because their default is to protect themselves from the perceived threat of vulnerability. Even if they’ve expressed a desire to explore their mindset and emotions more deeply with you, that conscious desire is often overrun by their unconscious desire to feel safe.

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Today on EXPAND, we're joined by a special guest, Jonah Richman, who is best known for his expertise in compassionate marketing for coaches & wellness practitioners.

Laura & Jonah discuss the ins-and-outs of business trauma and what trends they're seeing in the coaching space when it comes to marketing our services. Jonah shares his insights and how he found his way back to his purpose after feeling jaded by deceptive practices.

You will also learn how to transition from a program or strategy that doesn't feel quite right to something that feels more aligned with your heart.

This conversation not only highlights the intricacies of business-trauma, but also, the uplifting truth that once we notice what doesn't feel good for us, we can create meaningful shifts that change the way we move in our businesses.

To connect with Jonah on Instagram: @jonah.richman 

www.jonahrichman.com

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