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Sarah Lewis
Building a coaching system that supports you There's something freeing about having a system that works for you: not rigid or restrictive, but something that gives you clarity and consistency. Intuition and presence matter in coaching, but so does structure. When you know how your sessions flow and what you're...
Sarah Lewis
One of the deepest and most lasting changes a coach can help create is a shift in a client's self image, the internal picture she carries of who she is, what she's capable of, and what she deserves. Most of what we call personal transformation, once you strip away the...
Sarah Lewis
Stress and anxiety are among the most common challenges that clients bring to coaching. They affect every dimension of life: work performance, relationships, health, sleep, and the capacity to think clearly and make good decisions. For women, who are often managing multiple high-demand roles at once, stress and anxiety can...
Sarah Lewis
Some of the most important conversations of our lives happen in coaching sessions: raw, honest exchanges that feel hugely significant in the moment. Then the session ends, the week goes on, life intervenes, and six months later your client can't really remember what she decided or what she committed to...
Sarah Lewis
Difficult conversations are unavoidable, at work and in life. The client you need to manage, the colleague who has overstepped, the family member whose behaviour you've been tolerating for too long, the friend who has hurt you: at some point you'll need to have a conversation you'd rather avoid. And...
Sarah Lewis
Listening as the foundation of coaching Listening is the foundation of all coaching. It may sound obvious, but the kind of listening that creates real change is very different from everyday listening. It takes discipline, intention, and a genuine commitment to focusing fully on the other person. Most people listen...
Sarah Lewis
The Illusion of Progress Progress is one of the most appealing yet misleading concepts in personal development. It suggests growth, movement, and improvement. But not everything that feels like progress leads to real change. What looks like forward movement can actually be a way of staying comfortable while avoiding the...
Sarah Lewis
This is one of the more common and frustrating patterns coaches run into. A client who is insightful, articulate, and deeply self-aware, who can analyse her own problems with real clarity, and who still, despite all of that, isn't moving. She thinks brilliantly and acts rarely. She has all the...
Sarah Lewis
Stuckness as a survival mechanism Staying stuck isn't a failure of intelligence or willpower. More often, it's a sophisticated survival mechanism. People are remarkably adaptive, and sometimes the familiar, painful pattern we want to escape is still, paradoxically, the safest place we know. The devil we know, as they say....
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