Mapping Your Journey: From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
My approach to coaching begins with understanding where you are now and envisioning where you want to go. Together, we’ll map out the different areas of your life, exploring where you feel stuck and where you want to grow.
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What are your challenging experiences you’d like to change?
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​What are your joyful moments you hope to expand?
​Embracing the Present: Cultivating Mindfulness and Compassion
I resonate deeply with Carl Jung’s insight, “What you resist, persists.” For me, mindfulness is key to engaging with the present moment and lessening the power of resistance. Often, our resistance to certain feelings or situations can intensify them. Expanding your capacity to stay present—even when it’s uncomfortable—can soften and shift difficult experiences.
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Our sessions will focus on cultivating compassion and acceptance for where you are right now. Through embodied practices, including meditation, movement, and breathwork, we’ll create a space where you can feel more grounded.
Regulating Your Nervous System
One reasons change can feel so challenging is that it’s hard to make shifts from a dysregulated state. When you’re trying to envision your future or make different choices, you might find yourself shifting into survival mode. This can bring up overwhelming feelings—fear, anger, or even a sense of collapse—that make change feel impossible. While this can feel frustrating, it’s important to recognize that your nervous system is trying to protect you. The uncertainty in new choices signals a potential threat, and your mind and body haven’t yet learned that safety and connection are possible in the face of change.
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Together, we’ll notice these moments of dysregulation and build a toolkit to help connect with your nervous system. This process fosters a relationship of trust with yourself and nurtures a grounded sense of self.
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It feels important to say that regulation is not about being calm. Big feelings are welcome and celebrated! I think of regulation about feeling safe and grounded enough so that when a big feeling comes your way you can experience it and still make useful choices about how to respond without getting totally overwhelmed.
Clarifying your vision for your future
We’ll explore what genuinely energises you and what drains you, using these insights to guide where to focus your energy. As this groundwork strengthens, we’ll work together to clarify your vision for the future.
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What are the dreams you want to pursue?
How do you want to feel in your life, and what experiences do you want to create?
Booking a discovery call
I offer a free 30 minute call to talk through working together and any questions you might have. To set this up email me at sarahwalshhaine@gmail.com.
The relationship with who you're going to be working with is important. I would really recommend booking in a few discovery calls with different people to see who you connect with.
This article has helpful questions you might want to talk yourself and a therapist/coach you choose to work with.​
“Just remember, you will be less afraid and less confused if you understand that this painful time of transition is the way true self-development happens. We have to take ourselves apart before we can put ourselves together in a new form. Because of our human heritage, we may battle some guilt for going after what we want. We may even feel a little disloyal, perhaps. When we step out into the gap, we may feel lost and unsure. The pay-off is your freedom, your true self, and a life that fills you up rather than draining you dry. Don’t be afraid to keep moving across that gap.”
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Lindsay C. Gibson, Who You Were Meant To Be.