During the pandemic, I started my life coaching practice for professionals and executive-level leaders. Building my coaching business has been a journey of patience, learning, and trial and error.
I recently gave a presentation to other coaches about helping their clients heal from emotional traumas and mental roadblocks. This has proven to be the most valuable and life-changing work I do while I’m coaching. I’m learning about somatics, stress being held in the body, and trauma of all sorts.
If you find yourself needing some foundational steps around helping those close to you heal from mental/emotional burdens, I would suggest these things:
- Write your feelings down. Write to yourself. Write to the person, place, or experience you need to heal from. Forgive yourself in that writing.
- If someone else is involved, express how you feel without blaming them.
- Share ways you could have approached things differently.
- Ask how you want things to be in the future.
- Have no expectation of the other person, the healing is for you. Maybe you keep the letter, maybe you hand it over. Maybe you have a phone conversation, either way, all of it removed the million-pound burden on your back.
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