After feeling lost and pretty much fed up with life in general for the past year or so, a friend of mine mentioned she had been taking part in some life coaching sessions and offered to put me in touch with Kate Taylor. I’m will be honest and say that I felt pretty cynical about taking part but I knew I was really unhappy and felt that I had to try something to end the cycle of my dead end thinking! When I first spoke to Kate over the phone she came across so warm, friendly and encouraging. After chatting for a while, I really felt like she understood what I was about and what I wanted to achieve. I left the first session actually noticing that a fug had been lifted and I had started to think a little more clearly. I had previously lost all ambition to do anything, whether it was to further my career or in general life. I couldn’t even answer the question “what do you really enjoy doing?” After a couple of sessions I worked with Kate on some simple goals I had to complete in the next week and to my surprise I completed them!! This really gave me a great sense of achievement. I had been suffering with really low self esteem issues but completing the smallest of goals slowly started to build my confidence again, which in turn boosted my happiness. I never felt judged or afraid to say anything in the sessions, however silly I thought they might sound. Kate also set small homework tasks, one of them was to write down a list of ten things I had achieved or enjoyed during the day, this might seem like a small thing to do but it hugely helped me and made me realise how I never reward myself and that I was achieving something every day. I’m not going to fib and say that sometimes it wasn’t hard because it was! I had to and still do battle with negative thoughts everyday but at least I can see when I am beating myself up for no reason. Knowing that I would be chatting to Kate about the difficulties I had faced that week also filled me with extra strength, as I knew we would be able to work on those problems together and turn them into a positive. After finishing six sessions of life coaching with Kate, I have noticed a huge improvement. I feel like I have got my spark back and actually look forward to events in the future, whether it’s applying for a job and seeking out new opportunities to going for an amazing bike ride, I really do look forward to the future. Overall I can safely say life coaching sessions with Kate Taylor have really changed my life, I feel so much more positive and since finishing the sessions I have noticed a big change. I have been offered job opportunities and have decided to relocate. I can safely say that these opportunities would not have come up unless I had taken part in Life coaching. I would certainly take more life coaching sessions with Kate and my advice to anyone out there who is thinking about doing it, if you don’t try it you will never know!!

Heather