You were wild once. Don’t let them tame you.

You were wild once. Don’t let them tame you.
Isadora Duncan

Are you tired, from the effort of NOT being yourself?

“We are too often tired, not from ‘the loss of muscular power’ but from the effort not to be ourselves.
We are actors trying to impress other people or ourselves and it’s hard work.
By contrast, the authentic person does not dissipate energy in contradictions.
Her self-honesty reduces internal conflicts, and she feels alive, exhilarated. Her energy is turned on by doing what matters to her.
She does not dissipate energy on conflicts or deceits… It is the greatest power in the world, the power to be ourselves.”
Readers Digest US edition, Jan 1983, p 79. (I changed “he” to “she” given I coach women.

As children we learned how to be and – importantly – how NOT to be.

All too often it involved a stifling of our very essence – our energy, our enthusiasm, what made us different…

It is common for a woman investing in coaching to start out confused or lost in terms of her identity.

In coaching we explore what being ‘her’ looks like, in a safe, non-judgmental environment. So that she will then go forward and do what’s important for her.