So many new coaches come to me saying that they don’t feel ‘expert’ enough to start coaching....
They think that they need to do another training to feel 'good enough' to coach...
Well, I thought this story from when I first started out might help everyone to see that NO-ONE feels confident when first starting out!
One of my first clients was a young woman named Rebecca. When Rebecca came to work with me I had only worked with a handful of clients on the basic program I had learnt at IIN.
Rebecca was bedridden with chronic fatigue and had been told not to expect a recovery.
As a new health coach, I wondered if I knew enough to help her. I wondered if my limited health knowledge would be strong enough to support her in improving her health.
I started working with Rebecca on both nutrition basics and also ‘primary foods’ and mindset which were the parts I really loved myself.
Only a few sessions into our coaching she emailed to say her family couldn’t believe it but she was able to get out of bed long enough to go to her sister’s graduation. She emailed me photos of her with her new dress and makeup.
And yet it wasn’t till our final session on Skype that I truly saw the total transformation in her.
She was out of bed and looking fabulous.
And her doctors had even changed her medicine in their amazement at her unexpected and rapid improvements.
Sometimes, it really is the basics, with someone by your side to believe in you, to hold your hand to a new way of living, to reflect back an outside view and to cheerlead you on all the way to a new level of health.
Rebecca was so overjoyed at her transformation that she too went on to train as a health coach and so did her Mum!! How cool is that?!
Talk about creating the ripple effect in the world’s health.
And Rebecca was not the only client I had in the early days who had such great results – even BEFORE I felt uber-confident and ‘expert’ as a health coach.
To be a good Health Coach you do not need to KNOW everything – but you do need to get out of your own way and be willing to start helping others.
Trust me, if I could get such great results with my clients EVEN though I never felt I knew ‘enough’ then so can you!
And the best news is, that ‘not enough’ feeling goes away quick smart after you’ve seen this happen with just a few clients and you’ll be able to look back as I do and wonder why you didn’t get in the game sooner.
Love,
Amanda xx
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