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Hello :) Thank you for reading my profile whilst looking for the right professional to support you. I am a qualified and insured Transformative Life Coach who supports individuals, couples and families of all ages and backgrounds to live more consciously, confidently and happily. My experience of working and interacting with children, teenagers, adolescents and adults spans over more than 26 years. This experience together with my professional Life Coaching training and personal Life experiences, create the solid foundation of my effective and caring support. Before I write a little more about how I work and how I can help you, I want to reassure you: my Life – like yours – knows its ups and downs, its flows and struggles. Divorce, grief, loss, living away from family, toxic and manipulative relationships, parenting stresses, Covid trauma, past emotional trauma triggers, insomnia, career challenges, managing my mental health, menopause and anxiety, yoyoing energy and confidence levels - are only a few examples of experiences in my Life so far. But alongside personal challenging experiences, I also enjoy many positive, successful, joyful and encouraging experiences. So, I hope you can see that I am a professional who very much appreciates that we are all humans trying to live our very best lives with as much joy as possible. The foundation of my service is that I genuinely passionately guide and lead my clients to their successes by helping them to help themselves with improving their present and their future. I can confidently say that my support works, because my clients tell me and show me. And our co-operation will also be successful, because: if you are here sincerely wanting something to be better or different in your Life and I am here ready to support you in creating that with you, then there simply is no other outcome than success and growth. For example, you are looking to: • increase your enjoyment of your every day • find more satisfaction in your work or career • improve your professional or personal relationships • create more positive or healthy habits • enjoy more efficient communication I can guide you to achieving all the above, and more. What gives me and my clients joy is that only beneficial outcomes are gained. My clients know that the momentum of the process is progressive and although their coaching follows a simple or natural process, it is not always easy. It is not always easy, because coaching conversations require active engagement. When you and I work together you too will discover that: • our conversations need both our full commitment, attention and energy. • our conversations can be challenging, thought provoking and sometimes emotional. • during our conversations I do not instruct, teach, advise nor judge. As your coach I actively listen, attentively observe and skilfully question to help you find your options, solutions and decisions. And you will gain clarity, understanding, insights and next steps. Some examples of Life improvements my clients achieve: • positive and proactive mindsets • new and uplifting perspectives • more efficient and successful habits • increased confidence, self-worth and self-esteem • improved leadership skills at home at work • higher ambitions in all areas of Life • more effective, productive and successful communication I love being a Life Coach because I truly help people to change their lives around. Anything and everything that makes up your Life, is welcome, for example: work, family, business, mental health, relationships, wealth, well-being, intimacy, career, emotions, education, spirituality, communication and recreation. And because all the areas in our lives are interlinked, improving one area always improves another area. Each achievement creates more impact, joy and growth. So, it is only logical when I say that my clients all experience a unique and continuous success-and-growth momentum. And you can experience this too. Here are a few key CFW coaching points: 1. Your conversations can be emotional and therefore make you feel tired. 2. Sometimes your goals and decisions can change because not always will that what you think you want to focus on, stay your focus or wish. 3. Your conversations will always achieve positive outcomes, feelings, ideas, solutions and perspectives. 4. Any learning, choices, decisions and results you discover are ALWAYS and ONLY created by YOU. Not by me. 5. Committing to working with me, needs committing to yourself to be successful. Each time we meet, you can look forward to experiencing unique, enlightening and empowering moments. There really is no excuse or reason to wait or delay creating what you want, because you can choose to act now. Give yourself time to work together with me and start to feel more in control, happy, strong and free straight away. Remember to read what some of my clients have shared, because it will show that working with me is not scary, but fun, productive and successful. My clients appreciate that: • I welcome them as they are and do not tell them what to do nor how to live their lives. • I do not give homework nor tasks for them to complete. • I do not rush them nor their thinking. • they do not need to feel ready nor prepared for their conversation. • trusting the process and my guidance, always leads them to results. As your Life Coach, I will successfully support you to move forward also when you feel stuck, anxious, insecure, fearful, unproductive, alone or worried. And in case you are currently receiving support from other well-being, therapy or counselling services, please know that my service combines very well with all other self-care services. In fact, my clients who also see other professionals look forward to their time with me because: • we explore questions, worries and areas not always covered. • our positive, motivating and pro-active focus means there is no need to linger in the past. • they gain new clarities, more practical solutions and refreshing insights faster with me, than with their other support services. With me you are guaranteed to explore where you are at, where it is you want to be and how you want to get there. Speak soon, Yvo PS Until we meet, I give you 2 practices which hugely improved my daily life many years ago: 1. Replace the verb ‘should’, with ‘could’. Each time you say, hear or think 'could' instead of 'should', enjoy experiencing what you notice. 2. Realise that you can choose what you think and what you feel. When next time you feel down, alone, unhappy, unable – check what you are thinking. Then choose whether you want stay as you are or want to think and feel more positive. Celebrate what you notice happening within. And I leave you with a words for your reflection: At the basis of all our interactions, lies our connection, understanding and appreciation of ourself. To know who we are and what we are capable of doing, we need dedicated time to work on our self. Then the transformation of our Life and our living will follow naturally.