Yesterday, I told the truth.
It popped out of my mouth about 30 minutes into a session with my coach.
I was feeling FLAT. Unenthused about life. About business. And [gulp] about serving my clients.
I was ready to do the quitting thing, pack my backpack up, and go live in the woods alone.
Until about minute :29 when I suddenly realized I was SCARED.
So I said the thing that felt true: “Oh, dang. I’m standing at the edge of my terror barrier.”
See, I’m starting some new marketing and it feels…edgy. Vulnerable. It brings up some stories [ahem…limiting beliefs] I have about how marketing is “supposed” to be done (or NOT done).
And that bound up my breath and my body and my brain. It got me STUCK.
So, I do what I know to do: I tell my coach the TRUTH in the safety and confidentiality of our coaching session.
And, because I told the truth, coaching does what it does: it gently unlocks me.
Here’s where we ended the call:
My work with nature-based coaching is NOT mainstream. My relationship and trust in Nature is also not mainstream.
AND people are suffering. They are exhausted, overstimulated, and they’ve lost themselves in the NOISE of life. They don’t know which way to turn.
I KNOW that taking people into nature for a forest therapy + coaching session, it slows their monkey mind down. I invite them to stop the motion and movement of their brains and bodies. To focus on their breath. “What are you noticing?”
THIS is what offers a counterbalance to the hustle and grind. To the overwhelm. To the FLATNESS feeling under all that life piles on day after day, year after year.
My work isn’t mainstream. I’m here to bother people.
I’m here to bother them with my questions, with my coaching, and most importantly, with my INNER PEACE.
And when I forget it, I use my own tools to find it again.
Warmly,
Angie