An Introduction

Hello, my name is Brooke and I am a life coach.  

What comes to your mind when you hear the "life coach"?  Before I starting coaching myself, I thought of a coach as someone involved in  athletics who has the job of doling out advice, strategy, praise, and motivational speeches to players.

Before I actually received coaching as part of a leadership program I went through in 2011, I had never heard of coaching and had little idea what to expect.  A coach?  For my life?  Huh? "Sounds kind of new agey", I thought.  

And then I received my first coaching session and before I knew it I was head over heels in love.  I loved it so much in fact, that almost exactly two years after my first session I decided to get trained as a coach myself.  It took some time for me to own up to actually wanting to be a coach professionally.  I was simply going through the training program to gain skills that I would apply to in my current career.  That's what I told myself and others.  But eventually I couldn't deny that this was what I wanted to do.  

In this blog, I'll be talking a lot about coaching because that's what I'm really passionate about.  However, I don't want to be professorial about it or portray myself as some kind of coaching guru of wisdom (not that I could if I tried). 

Instead I want to talk about what I am learning about coaching and how I am applying the tools, principles, and processes of coaching in my own life.  This is important to me because I sometimes get the impression that some people perceive coaches as a kind of more advanced human - those who "have it all figured out".   

No. Just no. Not true.  And I don't want to feel the pressure of trying to live up to that kind of image.  

What I do want to be is intentional about how I choose to live my life so that I can connect, create, and contribute in the fullest way possible.  I'll be using what I am learning as a coach to help me do this.  It's a journey and if you choose to follow along maybe you'll find something worthwhile you can apply to your own life. 

I hope so.  

Thanks for reading =)