Life Coaching Blog

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How should a life coach interpret vocal cues and body language?
As a life coach, you are responsible for providing advice, mentorship and counselling to your clients. Your ability to provide helpful, useful advice all depends on whether or not you are able to properly assess your client’s needs. While your client may express their specific needs verbally, you will need…
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Why does a life coach need assessment skills?
Assessment is an important tool in ensuring that something is working. When you meet your life coach for the first time, they will be assessing you based on what you are looking to achieve. Once this has been done, they will implement a strategy that will allow you to achieve…
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What is holistic wellness?
The principle of holistic wellness maintains that an individual consists of three aspects: body, mind as well as spirit. These components need to be integrated as one in order for the person to be well. Thus, the ‘whole’ person must be evaluated and treated when there is a health concern.…
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A life coach’s thoughts on learning by doing
Successful life coaching most certainly comprises learning by doing. You can have all of the correct knowledge but if there is no action involved the process is null and void. While there are a number of unique ways that can be used to teach people, arguably learning by doing is…
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A life coach’s explanation of actor-observer bias
According to expert life coaches, often it is inferred that other individuals perform a particular task something because of their personalities. However, when considering our own actions we think that we do things because of the situation that we find ourselves in. This is called the actor-observer bias. In addition,…
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What a life coach will teach you about intra-personal dynamics
The term ‘intrapersonal’, and by extension intra-personal dynamics – is to do with self. The dictionary gives the meaning of this term as ‘existing or occurring within the individual self or mind’. Another term, one that is becoming popular these days, is ‘emotional intelligence’ which is the ability to understand…
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How To Help Clients Deal With Stress
Stress is a feeling which is created when we react to specific events. It’s the body’s way of meeting a challenge in addition to preparing to meet a tough situation with focus, strength, stamina as well as heightened alertness. It is often the life coach’s job to help their clients…
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Why listening is the number one life coaching skill
When hiring a life coach, clients express the vulnerabilities and struggles in their lives. A life coach needs to help their clients process these issues in order that they can move forward. If they aren’t able to listen to their clients’ feelings and expectations, they won’t be able to provide…
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