Simone Seol is a marketing coach for life coaches and the host of the Joyful Marketing podcast. She and I share very similar approaches to coaching and our way of life, and we’ve both had a lot of work to do in our personal lives around our disregard for the conventional rules of what productivity looks like.
If you’re tempted to skip over this episode, thinking you know all there is to know about perfectionist fantasies and tomorrow thinking, think again. A continual and renewed study of this topic is going to help you resonate with them with an up-leveled brain every time.
Corinne is a weight loss coach with what she calls a no-BS approach, helping her clients lose their mental weight so they can feel better about their bodies before they even start to lose weight, if that’s what they want to do. Corinne and I are extremely different people, but our differing approaches share so many commonalities, and what we have been able to teach each other throughout our careers has been a real eye-opener.
This week, we’re talking about the five biggest misconceptions I see about thought work and mindset coaching. As a coach who’s been in this game for 10 years and professionally for five, I still have so much work to do to keep the faith in the process to see the revelations and growth in myself. And if you’re holding onto any of these misconceptions, you’re likely using thought work in a way that is not serving you.
There are a lot of myths and misunderstandings about life coaching out there. Some people are just plain confused about what life coaching is and what it does. Some people mistakenly think that it’s gaslighting and “spiritual bypassing.” And even some of my most devoted students secretly think that coaching
Evolutionarily speaking, our brains are always scanning for what seems normal in our environment because it signals safety to us. So, obsessing over how many friends you have, or the kind of romantic relationship you want, or your size and weight in comparison to those around you is what our brains have been trained to focus on. But what if conformity and being “normal” doesn’t actually mean safety?