What are some resources and tools for life coaching and mental health?

Life coaching provides a safe space for the coachee (coaching client) to arrive at their own conclusions based on their answers to questions that their coach asks them. The questions are asked in a non-judgemental, open way to help draw out the coachee's answers and solutions to their challenges and help them achieve their goals. Life coaching has a present (mindset) and future (goal achievement) focus. Unlike therapy, where past issues can be the focus, in coaching mindset and goal achievement are the focus. The past is only discussed in its relation to addressing and removing goal obstacles.

Life coaching allows you to help someone have a different perspective of who they are and rediscover their potential towards achieving growth in various aspects of their life. Career, marriage, health, finances, among others.

Life coaching is the ability to ignite one's fire to look deep inside of them and find that greatest version of themselves. This helps them overcome the overwhelming emotions of self pity, self doubt and fear which greatly affects self esteem and the ability to build courage to embrace change as well as the adversities life throws at us.

Mental health is the state in which an individual is in control of their physical, emotional, social and spiritual well being. The ability to identify when help or support is needed to be able to navigate through life and all it's challenging as well as exciting moments.

I am both a therapist and life coach. I do agree that life coaching can benefit people's mental health, however as a life coach it is important to avoid working with clients whose issues and degree of mental health challenges are beyond your competency and scope of practice. Which is unethical and can be harmful. Helping someone coping with stress is not the same as helping someone who has been diagnosed with a mental health issue. Also, people may come to you for coaching and actually have an undiagnosed mental health issue. I think it is important to be honest with yourself and your clients about what you can or cannot do.

Interesting perspective. I specifically love that there are resources that can ease the coaching skills and services. Being a lived Experience coach am looking forward to getting certified by using resources such as ICF International Coaching Federation.

I invented the ?? red, yellow and green emojis and the 3 levels of stress so everyone can have mental health x-Ray vision. ?? Seeing is relieving. ??

Discovering and ranking core values is useful for a starting point for coachees wanting guidance on their next steps. A coachee who finds themselves at life's crossroads might find this particularly useful. Personal SWOT analysis and 360 Feedback tools are great too, not only for next steps, but also for understanding where the coachee is from various perspectives not just their own.