The time has arrived to share that I am in the process of becoming a certified life coach! Ah! Yes! I can’t believe I am finally putting it out there!
Where do I start?
Well, if you know me in real life or have been following my journey for sometime, you would know that since I was a teenager I knew I wanted to be a school counselor which became my main mission in life and I made it happen by the time I was 26 years old.
Unfortunately, my first school counseling position was in a toxic work environment that affected my mental health. As a result, in 2020, after two years of working at this job, I decided to quit. Later on in the same year, I also decided to give up alcohol.
The combination of quitting my toxic job and giving up alcohol has created the biggest changes in my life in ways that I could have not imagined.
As I embarked on a journey of sobriety and while being unemployed, in 2021, I began to question my purpose, identity, and the school counseling career I had chosen which has led me to experience feelings of confusion, overwhelm, and doubt.
Through this process I did not realize how much I made the role of a school counselor the center of who I was which prevented me from exploring other aspects of who I am outside of the career I chose.
It took a couple of years to finally detach myself from my school counselor identity. But thankfully today, I am in a better place where I am more open to explore who I am and a different path for myself. Because of this, I am now exploring a new path for myself by trying life coaching.
The interesting thing about life coaching is that it’s something that I wanted to try back in 2021. I looked into a couple of coaching programs and even went to free webinars to learn about business and coaching. However, due to my confusion, uncertainty, doubt, and mental health, I never pursued it.
But then in February of this year, I found myself feeling more open to exploring coaching which is something I could not feel back in 2021. I loved that I had this feeling of being more open and curious about life coaching. I felt that with this approach of exploration and curiosity, I could allow myself to finally try it!
And so at the ending of May of this year, I decided to sign up for a coaching program I found online and began in early June.
The journey till this point has not been easy. I am getting emotional as I write this. When I first signed up for the coaching program I felt a sense of lightness and I loved it but since then I am still experiencing doubt and uncertainty about my decision. I still question myself. At times, I can’t differentiate between my fear and intuition. I am still unsure but one thing I know is that I want to keep exploring and allow myself to be open to what I can discover with life coaching.
Also, if I had pushed myself to do it a couple of years ago, I don’t think I could have approached life coaching the way I am today with a sense of openness. I do think I had to go through what I went through the past couple of years to be where I am today. And because of everything I experienced, I can honestly say it feels better to now be pursuing something different for myself given everything I have learned the past couple of years.
Putting all that to the side, I always wanted to help others. Yes, I wanted to help teenagers as a school counselor but I always had a vision of making an impact and helping adults. While I don’t know where I stand with school counseling, it is time to find a different way to help others and a new path for myself.
I seriously don’t know where this journey will take me and after what I’ve been through I’ve learned to not attach myself to the outcome or even expect a certain outcome because usually our plans don’t go as we planned. So here is to openness, exploration, and curiosity of a new path!
If you have gotten up to this point and are interested in working with me, book a call here to see if we are a fit for each other. I’d be so excited and happy to support you with your journey!
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