It was February, 19 months after I started to receive coaching and 4 months after deciding that I was respect worthy, when I (once again) said to my husband: "Do you think I will ever be able to enrol in the 18-month Ontological Coaching Program?" As he had every other time I had raised this,…

A few months after commencing my new job, I started to feel quite anxious. There had been niggling anxiety and self-doubt lurking there for a while, and I had chosen to ignore them. At the time, I think I saw anxiety and self-doubt as something that I should have conquered, as though it was wrong…

Peace. Freedom. Achievement. Pride. I was feeling all of this the day I handed in my resignation. I had survived my career year from hell and I had implemented my exit plan. It was almost over. No more being judged, regardless of my efforts. No more being sworn at. No more being abused. I wanted…

Following my very first coaching conversation, I had gone home and googled Ontological Coaching. In doing so, I came across an Ontological Coaching and Leadership course, which sounded amazing. My excitement was short-lived when I realised that the contact person for this course was my coach. That just felt weird; stalkerish, almost. So I closed…

Historically, I have a tendency to arrive at a point in a job where I assess that it is all too difficult, and I decide that it is time to leave. This usually happens at around 12-18 months into a role. The reasons for it all feeling too difficult can be varied. It might be…

It was towards the end of that first year that my coach offered me the possibility of attending a meditation class. I was pleased that he made this offer via email. I would have felt as though I had to say yes if he had asked me in person, and there was no way that…