Since fully launching my online coaching business, I’ve gotten a lot of questions regarding what I do. What exactly is confidence coaching? How do you coach someone in wellness? How is this different than therapy? There’s a lot that goes into what I do. The simple answer; I work with young females to find their confidence through wellness strategies to help them start owning their truth and living the life they deserve. This usually gives enough information for someone to better understand my work but this response merely scratches the surface. So, what exactly is confidence and wellness coaching and how does it work?

The Difference Between Therapy and Coaching

The most common question I get: how is coaching different from therapy?

To begin, the training and education between coaches and therapists vary greatly. There are more intense and regulated education requirements of physiologists, therapists, and psychiatrists. These professionals generally work with mental health and the science of the brain and body. The goal of therapy is to alleviate the pain or symptoms of a specific issue or concern. The goal of coaching is more to achieve goals and create lifelong habits and skills to improve quality of life.

Therapy tends to be more about healing whereas coaching tends to be more about accomplishing. Though there are a lot of therapists that touch on the future, they usually stick to unraveling the past. Coaching may touch on the past (just as I do with healing and shadow work) but has a larger focus on the future.

There are a lot of differences between the two and I personally don’t believe that one is better than the next. It’s important to evaluate your needs and wants before committing to either of them. Coaching is more about empowering, inspiring, and leading clients to their higher purpose. They usually guide the conversation and work towards their goals. Therapy is more about understanding, problem-solving, and giving tangible advice on what they should do to feel better.

How Do Wellness & Confidence Relate?

Firstly, it’s important to understand how wellness and confidence relate to each other. Could I just be a health and wellness coach? Sure! Could I just focus on confidence? Absolutely. But in my life, I have seen and felt the direct correlation between applying wellness strategies into my life and my confidence levels increasing. They work together to create this sense of feeling whole and united in the mind and body. Being a wellness and confidence coach doesn’t mean that I have two separate entities to what I do, it means that I work with clients on improving their confidence through wellness strategies.

You may be wondering, why is it so important to work on wellness to uncover my confidence? Well, let’s dig into it…

I primarily work with the 8 dimensions of wellness (physical, intellectual, emotional, spiritual, environmental, financial, occupational, social). This may seem like a lot but it really helps you dig into where the confidence is lacking and why. When you look at each dimension, or area, of your life, you begin to dissect what needs to be improved. As you begin implementing wellness strategies into your life, you start discovering what areas are truly holding you back. Naturally, when you eliminate the toxic qualities and replace them with new, refreshing ways of life, you start working harder. Your mind starts recognizing all of the things that you are capable of because you are creating space in your life for positivity. This is just a surface-level response, to read more about how wellness improves quality of life, check out this blog post.

What I Coach

While working with the 8 dimensions of wellness, I obviously cover a wide range of topics, but they aren’t random. I coach my clients on very real strategies to helping uncover their truth. We do shadow and healing work, mindset practices, goal setting, wellness strategy, and behavior change techniques. It’s a lot so let’s break it down…

Shadow and healing work are crucial to any transformation. It helps you discover the shadows of who you use to be and the subconscious feelings that you carry with you every day so you can push past them and start working on your present self. You must heal from your past before working on your future.

Mind over matter, right? SO much of confidence comes from within. Actually, almost all of it does. Coaching my clients on mindset and meditation practices is the key feature that takes my clients from liking to LOVING themselves.

Goal setting is a huge component of confidence and wellness. You must be able to set and plan goals for your dreams to become a reality. My coaching is deeply rooted in helping my clients accomplish their goals, even if they aren’t sure what they are prior to working with me.

With my clients, I create a wellness action plan based on THEIR needs. We discover this by analyzing their overall health and wellness and an extensive quiz/questionnaire that analyzes each dimension of wellness and how each one plays a role in their life. We then unpack tangible ways to implement wellness strategies into their lives based on the lifestyle that they live.

Behavior change sounds scary but it’s actually pretty simple. I coach my clients on identifying why their goals aren’t being met and altering their actions and reactions to be able to accomplish them without the frustration and backing down.

How I Coach

Now you have an understanding of what I coach and the topics covered, but how does this exactly work?

With my 1:1 coaching, I meet with my clients via an online platform for 45-minute sessions. I meet with them about once a week (sometimes more depending on their wants/needs) and the duration depends on the program type they choose. As a business owner I, of course, have a structure to all of my coaching calls however I feel passionate about letting the conversation flow naturally. I believe that each of you needs a different kind of energy and attention that is unique to you. I don’t focus too much on the structure of the call but more so the results of the call.

With my coaching comes personal ongoing support during the desired program. I can’t stand when you hire a coach and can’t get a hold of them except during your scheduled calls. Confidence, wellness, and transformation take time and it’s a process. What help would I be if I gave you all this incredible advice and got you to a place of feeling great and alive in your body and then left you to implement and figure it out on your own? That doesn’t sound like a coach I would want to hire. So, I offer all of my client’s constant support through texting, emailing, and voice chat.

Accountability

The key component to wellness and confidence coaching is accountability.It’s not that difficult to do a Google search of “wellness strategies” or “how to practice self-care” but this isn’t your issue…

We live in a “how-to” society. Everything is about “how-to” accomplish something, “10-steps” to being better, etc. But, if “how-to” worked, everyone would have their goals met and would be exactly how they want to be. The greater issue is accountability and recognizing that everyone’s “how-to” will look different because everyone’s lifestyles and interests are different. If we all followed every “how-to” article and became the exact same as one another, life would be so boring.

This is where coaching comes into play. My job as your coach is to hold you accountable for feeling your absolute best. It’s my job to help you not just set your goals, but ensure that you meet them. I don’t coach people on how to change who they are, I coach them on how to own who they are. My goal as a coach is to help you learn how to mold your life around who YOU want to be, not what others think you need to be. I hold people like you accountable so that you can live the life you want and deserve and truly own your truth.