Bridge the gap between your circumstances today and the life you'd like to lead. Together, we will define goals and get the results you want.
Coaching with Linda may be the secret sauce!
Feeling stuck?
Navigating a major life transition?
Ready to concentrate on actionable steps towards desired outcomes?
“Linda leads you in self-exploration with an eye towards finding pragmatic steps to life changes.”
Professional & Personal Coaching
We all want to live a life of meaning, joy, and fulfillment. But let’s be honest… it’s not easy!
Finding our passions, defining our purpose, and balancing all the many aspects of a complete and rich life… this stuff takes work!
I can help. I’ve helped literally thousands of students, clients and audience member around the world in creating a meaningful life!
Think of me as your action-oriented guide by your side, who can help you in the full spectrum of your life including goal setting, relationships, love life, career, leisure and life purpose.
Retirement Coaching
Successful retirement requires a financial readiness but also planning for the less structured lifestyle of choice and leisure that awaits. It’s common to ask how one builds identity, structure, social connections and meaning once one leaves the workplace. Linda can help you plan for what can be some of the best years of your life.
Retirement Coaching could be a fit if you are:
Financially fit but afraid to retire.
Looking for meaningful ways to use your time.
Exploring new hobbies and activities.
Overwhelmed with opportunity and time.
Ready to put yourself first for what may feel like the first time!
Coaching For Caregivers
Linda can share research and lived experience on the challenges of being a family caregiver and finding the joys and rewards amid the exhaustion and overwhelming demands. Her passion for sharing practical ways family caregivers can integrate self-care into their lives is infectious. Linda weaves personal caregiving stories and actionable systems into her interactive presentations. Her heartfelt messages reassure, educate, and inspire audiences.
“Angels in Anguish” as she likes to call caregivers, leave charged up to put their own care on their To-Do list as well as tips to lighten their caregiving load.
Coaching for caregivers could be a fit if you are:
Feeling exhausted, alone and need support and for yourself.
In need of communication tools to make your observations and perspective heard in medical appointments
Struggling with asking for help
Desiring more balance and time for you!
In need of helpful resources to give care to yourself and others.
Hearing from loved ones that they are more worried about you than the patient
Wanting to move past negative self talk to see all that you are doing right.
Grief Coaching
We’ve all experienced grief as we’ve tried to navigate this strange and broken world. How does one cope with the heartbreaks of disease, financial insecurity, losing a loved one, declining health, a breakup, a layoff, disillusionment in our leaders, loss of a dream and more.
When faced with great loss, most of us do our best to doggy paddle to survive lest we drown in our sorrow. As time passes, thrivers report enhanced appreciation of friends and family, a discovery of personal strengths, and a reprioritization of commitments.
Grief coaching could be a fit if you are:
Surviving but not thriving.
Looking for a safe place to grieve in your own way.
Old sorrows and losses are bubbling up and spilling out of your grief backpack
Looking for help communicating with family, friends, and work.
Desiring to move from a grief to growth mindset.
Would like to honor and celebrate life in a new way.
Coaching Services
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Personal & professional life coaching
Thanks for considering my coaching services. What brings you to coaching at this particular time? What are you most hoping to achieve from our working together? If you’re interested in exploring 1:1 coaching, please contact me to schedule your free 30 minute Good-Fit consultation. This is an initial assessment of our compatibility. I want to make sure that I am the best person to guide you towards your greatest success. In a future session, we will work on creating a personalized plan to fit your unique situation, needs and goals.
“Success in 10 percent inspiration and 90% perspiration.” Thomas Edison
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Retirement: The remarkable third act
Ready to jump out of an airplane? I’m not. Thankfully, this unique life chapter called Retirement will look different for everyone. If you have your health, and your financial house in order, a coach can help you design meaningful days that may not include setting an alarm clock! A new identity, self motivating without imposed structure, fears about isolation are all real and common concerns that Linda can help you through. First, can you acknowledge this opportunity with gratitude and together we’ll explore ”What’s next?!”
“Thanks to her Creating a Meaningful Life course and then some pre-retirement planning, these are truly the sweetest years of my adult life.” Sylvia
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Caregiver Support and Empowerment
A caregiver is someone who regularly provides support to a child, person with a disability, a frail or ill person. If you are a family caregiver, you play a vital role in helping loved ones stay safe, clean, fed, maintain their independence and quality of life. Becoming a caregiver is rarely planned and can be both rewarding and physically and emotionally taxiing.”
“Linda was recommended to me by a coleague when I was at the end of my rope careing for my aging Mom. Linda’s ability to empathize and empower me to set some boundaries on my time was so very helpful. As a grown adult, I don’t know why I needed someone to give me permission to take care of myself while caregiving for my mom. Linda helped me think through what I needed, how to communicate that to my mom and siblings. I am eternally grateful for the rejuvenation that came from taking breaks and doing activities that I enjoyed again.” Cora
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Grief coaching
Grief is the experience of coping with loss. It’s messy, confusing, and overwhelming to children and adults alike. Many people think of grief as that wrenching feeling that happens following the death of a love one. But grief is far more comprehensive than that! A break up, a national disaster, pregnancy loss, miscarriage of justice, being laid off from work, the death of a pet or even a dream… Grief can accompany any event that disrupts or challenges our sense of who we are and what life is about. Despite what movies, music, and social media portray, grief doesn’t always show up with tears and it certainly doesn’t end after one year.
“Linda taught me that Grief is a process and not a destination. I reached out because I was feeling guilty for not grieving like my siblings were. Where were my tears? Linda, who's been grief coach for decades, assured me that it’s perfectly normal for grief responses to vary from person to person, and between family members. What I am going through is my healing journey and comparing myself to my brothers was making me hurt more.” Michael
FAQs
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People who are generally talented men and women who are successful and pleased with many aspects of their lives. They use their creativity and intelligence to infuse meaning into their relationships and experiences.
Right now, they feel stuck.
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Coaching is a wellness model. People who are generally successful at identifying and accomplishing their goals are for one reason or another, stuck. The coach helps clients identify their barriers to success and works with them to develop strategies for overcoming these challenges to access the life outcomes they most desire. A good coach is the right balance of motivation and holding you accountable for the action steps required.
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Therapy allows you to deal with issues related to your past. If a client is not moving forward, a therapist may look with them into their life backpack to understand and heal past hurts, traumas and cognitive distortions. Coaching is a wellness model that focuses on moving into your future. As coaches, we help you discover and prioritize
New options to gain clarity and perspectives
Ways to create direction and expedite achieving your goals.
How to stay accountable to the process of steps needed for growth
Positive actionable change
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A good match is really important for a coaching relationship. Because it’s so important that we are a good fit, I’d like to invite you to a complementary ½ hour Good-fit consultation. I’ll share general information about my background and my style of coaching. You’ll share with me a bit about why you are pursuing coaching at this juncture and what you hope to accomplish. within the week, we determine if working together feels right. We set our first zoom appointment and the journey begins!
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First and foremost, once you’ve committed to me as your coach, Im forever available to you. How much time we work together varies by client and the situation. Job hunting may take months. Commitment to new leisure in retirement may take weeks. Our goal is to provide you with tools and resources and then empower you – through practice, awareness, observation, feedback and accountability – to apply those tools and resources to your life and relationships through “self-coaching.” We find that the most effective solutions require a client commitment to at least 5 visits. Some clients choose to work together for months. Many complete their goals and come back on an as-needed basis.
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In our fast-paced world, self-improvement feels less like a luxury and more like a necessary investment. Investing in yourself is vital, but coaching is not generally covered by health insurance. You’re wise to balance what you’re able to spend with the coaches credentials, testimonials, and compatibility.