During the week after that first coaching conversation, I tried to focus on my language. In situations where I would normally panic and say “I can’t do that”, I found myself saying, either silently or out loud, “I wonder what we can achieve”. In meetings with senior leadership, who I usually found to be aggressive…
I remember how I felt at that first coaching conversation: that horrible ball of anxiety in the pit of my stomach, and the feeling of uncertainty as I started to talk about my self-doubt and how it was affecting me. The feelings in my body were very real; the mass of anxiety would take over…
Feeling broken, it was time to find help. At first I didn't even know what help looked like. Was it a psychologist? A mentor? A coach? I had no idea. Years prior, I'd had an interest in coaching. I really didn't know much about coaching; I had just thought that helping people sounded kind of…
I remember it well. The day that I finally realised that I just couldn't keep going in my new job without help. For my entire life, I had suffered from a lack of self confidence and an abundance of self-doubt. However, I had also coped. I had done reasonably well at work, had some great…
