Anxious feelings coaching focuses on helping individuals change their relationship with their thoughts and feelings so these experiences have less control over their lives. Unlike approaches that aim to eliminate anxiety, coaching helps people to live a full and meaningful life despite feeling anxious. Coaching acknowledges that anxiety is a natural human emotion and seeks to empower people to take effective action in their lives regardless of these feelings.
Coaching helps people understand that their thoughts and feelings are not facts and need not control their actions. This involves learning to:
By changing how they relate to their thoughts and feelings, individuals can reduce the intensity and impact of their anxiety. This change helps people to see their thoughts and feelings as part of their experience, not the whole of their experience, allowing them to make choices that are not dictated by their anxiety.
Coaching, along with approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), offers ways for people to regain control in their lives without trying to get rid of anxiety. These approaches focus on:
Anxious feelings coaching helps people to change their relationship with their thoughts and feelings so that these experiences have less power over their actions. Coaching emphasizes acceptance and encourages people to take actions that are guided by their values, rather than driven by their anxiety. By focusing on action, and empowering clients to make their own choices, coaching, ACT and SFBT enable people to reclaim control and live a full and meaningful life, even when feeling anxious.
If anxious feelings have been controlling your life for some time now, you’ve tried various approaches but seem to make little progress perhaps it’s time to think about working with a coach. If you’d like to explore how this could work for you please get in contact.
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