What is coaching, really?
Definitions abound, so instead of a supplying you with a thesaural response, I’ll provide my personal account.
Coaching provided me with a mirror in which to take an honest account of how I was behaving in my life. Though painful at times, the pain of not really knowing what I wanted was much greater. My very first coach, Tripp Braden, saw something in me that I did not and allowed me to grow at a natural pace. Though months into our relationship, as it became obvious that he knew all along when I was “trying” and when I was simply “being”, he never let on. This was one of the main reasons he was so effective. He allowed me to be whatever I was being at any given moment. Without restrictions, without judgement. I realize this might sound like an esoteric postulation, and perhaps that’s the point. In fact, as we move into this Age of Aquarius we are discovering more and more of what we don’t understand and succumbing more to trust and faith and intuition. Coaching is an incredible catalyst for the kinds of philosophical presence many of us are moving towards.
If I were given the choice of never having known this growth or being where I am, which is the certainty of knowing within the uncertainty of life, there is nothing earthly that could make me choose the former.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anais Nin