Leonard

Before I started coaching, I struggled with focusing at work and being mindful in general. I also had challenges with procrastination and low self-confidence.

Coaching has helped me be aware of when I'm involved in unhelpful patterns like catastrophizing or all-or-nothing thinking. I appreciate Michel taking the time to understand the way I think and process information and that has helped me learn when I'm strategizing unnecessarily or overthinking. Learning that I have some patterns of avoidance and observing my thoughts while being grounded in the present has increased my self-confidence, strengthened my ability to catch myself when I'm going through unhelpful ruminating, and helped me better trust my decision-making ability.

I had never done coaching before and wasn't sure about whether I would find it helpful. But after working with Michel, it's clear that coaching helped me become more self-aware and now I feel more confident in addressing problems myself with the tools I've learned. Michel let me know in our initial sessions that our goal would be that eventually I would be able to rely on myself and the things I have learned to move forward and that has certainly been true in my case. Michel's the best coach I could have had and I'm grateful that I got to learn so much in my coaching journey.

What people who’ve worked with Michel are doing…

Self-Discovery and Personal Growth

- “Seeing myself more and seeing how certain actions are impacting everyone around me.”

- “Speaking to myself in my mind with more self-compassion.”

- “Accepting (all) of myself more often and forgiving myself earlier and more often.”

- “Releasing my need to know everything or understand why people do the things they do before taking the next step or making a decision.”

- “Accepting, owning, and learning to love my style of communication and understanding the gift that it is to the world for me to be the real me.”

- “Clarifying things that make me feel seen and heard in relationship.”

- “Reducing procrastination and avoidance, and improving my assertive communication.”

Enhancing Communication and Relationships

- “Cultivating empathy, patience, and actual communication with my wife.”

- “Opening myself up to considering others' needs and creating more opportunity for me to get my needs met in ways beyond what I could ever have imagined.”

- “Communicating and connecting more with my children in a way that honors my needs and theirs.”

- “Learning how to communicate in terms of emotions effectively in a caring, loving way instead of going straight into problem-solving.”

- “Reconnecting with my spouse and rebuilding my marriage from a new and honest foundation.”

- “Being more vulnerable in my relationships and connections instead of being guarded out of fear of self-protection.”

- “Shifting my expectations of others into my personal needs, and learning to honor and vocalize those needs earlier and more often while in relationship.”

Personal Empowerment and Advocacy

- “Thinking for myself more and advocating for myself more and setting boundaries more, particularly with my husband.”

- “Developing and implementing more boundaries with work.”

- “Learning to prioritize myself more, especially as a Mom.”

- “Including myself and my needs when making decisions for the group.”

- “Honoring the requirements of my mind and body when it comes to learning, pacing, and rest.”

- “Giving myself more room to make mistakes and seeing mistakes as a gift to improve and become more competent.”

Emotional Wellness and Health

- “Learning to manage my emotions and regulate my nervous system.”

- “Learning and regularly applying tools to help me with my road rage.”

- “Learning to regulate and validate my emotions and my needs.”

- “Managing my emotions better, having more self-compassion, honoring my standards and values for relationship/connection.”

Lifestyle Changes and Professional Development

- “Getting back into my community and opening up to healthy love.”

- “Releasing debt shame/dishonesty and developing a healthy relationship with money.”

- “Clarifying my values and ethics and organizing my life around them.”

- “Improving my effectiveness as a manager by learning how to regulate my emotions better.”

- “Improving learning skills, including reducing procrastination and improving focus.”

- “Developing perspective-taking skills for rational and aligned decision making.”

- “Owning my desire to be a house husband and tailoring my journey accordingly.”

- “Speaking my mind more often and earlier.”