Mindset and Motherhood

"You won’t get babies and you won’t get girls" proclaimed my adoption social worker with complete confidence during our initial meeting back in October 2012.

I looked at her, blinked a few times and smiled.

I smiled, because I knew that I would get babies and I would get girls.

Sure, on paper - single parent, over 40 - my odds didn't look great.

But I had every confidence that the family I dreamed of would become a reality.

Why?

Because before I even applied, I took the time to practice what I preach with my own coaching clients and my coach certification students:

1.????I identified and then eliminated all the negative beliefs I held about becoming a mother:

"I'm too old"

"I'll be over 60 when they're 20"

"I won't cope on my own"

"I can't afford it"

"I won't be able to keep traveling the world"

2.????I created a powerful vision of my family and consciously imagined what it would be like to have and to hold them each day. I looked into their eyes, heard their gurgles of laughter and breathed in their gorgeous powdery baby scent.

3.????I trusted myself and the process and showed willing by buying small things that I would need when my family arrived – books I’d loved reading as a child, baby blankets and a bottle steamer.

4.????I chose a sign – the butterfly – that would be a daily reminder of my dream, and that when the time came, would herald their arrival.

Two days after my 40 something birthday, when every card and present had a butterfly on it or was wrapped in butterfly-covered paper, my social worker visited to tell me I had been matched with two girls.

My eldest daughter (then 16 months) moved in in November 2013 and her sister moved in 3 months later at 6 weeks old.

As a coach and coach certification trainer, I know that the right mindset coupled with consistently taking inspired action, you can make anything happen.

From adopting my girls to running three businesses whilst caring for my terminally ill ex partner who died in 2018.

With the right mindset – thoughts, behaviours, habits, beliefs, values, strategies – you are capable of achieving anything you desire.

My passion is helping people to be the very best versions of themselves – to show up, bursting with self-belief to take the action that they need to take to achieve their goals with speed and with ease.

And I love the power of coaching as a way to make this happen.

Coaching truly enables people to create new beginnings.

To release the past and to move forwards to achieve their hopes and dreams.

For as long as I can remember I’ve been a self-development and professional development ‘junkie’. From my corporate days where I led culture and organisation change across the globe to the day back in 2006 when I started my own business, a blend of corporate consulting, coach training and running life changing retreats in the UK and Europe.

Fascinated by the phenomenal power of the human mind to create transformation and unleash our unique potential I gained Master Trainer’s Certification in NLP, Time Line Therapy and Hypnosis, along with EFT, Law of Attraction and energy practices.

This, coupled with my knowledge of Positive Psychology and a range of psychometric assessment tools, is the blend that forms the Mindset Coach Certification Programs I now run.

I believe that coaching is a calling.

You become a coach for a reason.

To help people to be the best they can be.

To be the very best version of themselves.

To help them achieve their dreams in life and their goals in business.

And you want to help them to make it happen faster, with results that last.

To create clients as advocates because of the way you have changed their lives.

As Abraham Maslow is attributed with saying “if the only tool you have is a hammer, it’s tempting to treat every problem as a nail”.

And at the Mindset Coach Academy, we have created a comprehensive toolkit because we want you to not only have a hammer, but a whole toolbox to hand so that once you have a deep understanding of your client, you can access the tools that you know will have the most impact for lasting transformation and results.

The Mindset Coach Certification is a dynamic program that will equip you with everything you need to succeed as a coach, including a world-class business mastermind so that you can create a thriving coaching practice doing what you love.

If you'd like to join us in our small-group training, please get in touch.

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