Do Mums Need Coaching?
As a mum with kids, juggling those plates can be daunting and sometimes confusing. Occasionally, we realise that our lives are not as balanced or as happy as we would prefer them to be. We might recognise that we need to change the balance in our lives yet not know where to start, what section of our lives to focus on as a priority for change to achieve a work and home life balance.
We might be a mum at home, looking after the home and family, or a work at home mum, fitting our work into the child free time, or we might be working outside the home for ourselves or someone else. Whichever option we choose, we still have to juggle those plates in our lives, which are all relative to our own circumstances.
Unfortunately, it can be the case that as women, particularly with kids, our juggling efforts are not recognised as ‘worthy efforts’. Often, it is ourselves that think this. So why is that? What makes us think that our efforts are not worthy? Is it the repetitive domestic slog? Is it the struggle to be the perfect wife, the perfect mother, the perfect worker, the perfect business entrepreneur?
If we look inside ourselves for long enough, we know our individual answer to those questions. Do you know the answer that applies to your self?
If we then recognise we need help, do we know what help we actually need and where to get it? Usually, no, we generally don’t know where to turn. We talk to family and perhaps friends whom we think will be able to help us. Yes they try, they listen, they love us, they offer suggestions, and they make caring comments and offer emotional support. But is that what we really need?
Many women experiencing this conundrum say: “it was lovely, wonderful to have that support and caring, but it really didn’t help me identify the actual things that needed to change and it didn’t identify the actions needed to be taken to actually make those necessary changes. I feel and know I need to take positive actions but don’t know where to begin.”
Finding a Coach
When we are ready to make changes in our lives, we can seek out the help we need, and look for a coach that we can develop a trusting relationship with. We can search on the internet, read through their websites, look through telephone directories, newspapers, magazines or come across word of mouth referrals.
Benefits of Coaching
This is the scary part. We have to identify our own goals and then aim steadily to achieve them. The role of a coach is to help us discover our personal goals in the area of our lives that we are striving to balance. A coach will assist us to work through what is blocking us from our goals, guide us carefully through a process to help us discover for ourselves, the actions we should take to reach them. The less scary, but amazing thing is that we can and do get through this process and it is – well, simply inspiring.
Have you been ‘inspired’ through life balance coaching?
Do you have an experience of coaching which you would like to make comment on to help inspire other women?
Discover some insights from other Inspirational Mums here.
A Mum with Kids
