Life coaching is a powerful tool for self development and moving your life forward in a positive empowering direction.  However, some people think it is just like therapy, or anyone can do it, so here are a few myths dispelled about this fantastic process:
1. Myth: Life Coaching is therapy in disguise and people can turn to it to avoid the stigma associated with psychotherapy and counselling.

Reality: Coaching is not therapy. Therapy often addresses dysfunction, whereas coaching enables a functional person to move forward and achieve greater success. However, there are similarities between coaching and therapy. Firstly, both disciplines help us to recognise the limiting nature of some of our internal beliefs and feelings. Secondly, both enable us to understand that by altering our self-limiting beliefs we can achieve the outcomes we really want.

Here, it is the responsibility of a coach to help a client identify the extent to which their self-limiting belief is a barrier to their success and enable them to forge an empowering path to overcome the obstacles in the way of their success. 

“Whatever you can conceive, and believe, you can achieve” 
I believe that inside every one of us there is an amazing potential to be the person we want to be – to not only dream our dreams, but to realise them fully. 

Life coaching is a fantastic tool to enable you to clarify and prioritise your dreams and turn them into achievable goals. If you are committed to your personal development and creating the life you really want, our 3 session coaching programme will create the clarity motivation and vision you need to achieve your goals for this year and beyond.
Although this statement was made over 50 years ago, it still holds true today.

Whatever you dream is already a possibility in your life – otherwise you would not have had the ability to create it in your mind. All creation starts with just one thought!
New life coaching course to get your life back on track starts on 7th May - just 3 Wednesday evenings could change your life!
More inforamtion here:
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/be-your-best-self-and-make-2014-your-best-year-tickets-9338167711

This evening programme over 3 sessions with a highly skilled life coach will kickstart your direction and motivation to succeed this year. 
Wednesdays from 22nd January. Click link below to book tickets:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/be-your-best-self-and-make-2014-your-best-year-tickets-9338167711?ref=estw

These 2 hour events will  set you on the track to success in any area of your life that you desire!

Having your own highly skilled life coach to work with for a series of one to one sessions is usually expensive , however, Monica Porter is offering you the chance to experience coaching in a small group for 3 weekly evening sessions!  These 6 hours of coaching would normally cost you over £300 in private sessions, but you pay only £15 a session and receive the benefit of Monica's 13 years of coaching experience, a vast toolkit of coaching methods and other dynamic transformational tools.  You can also book further one to one sessions if you wish at a special rate.

With all this on offer over a 3 week period you cant fail to get 2014 off to a great start!

See Monica's profile here:

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When you look back over your last year you can probably remember things you would have done differently if you could, or events that you would have avoided if you had planned better.

Why not start this year differently?

• Be more prepared, with a goal or dream to work towards.
• Gain in confidence and self belief 
• Bring out your best qualities and surprise yourself as you strive towards your goals
• Feel supported by someone who believes in you - as well as you!
• Create the motivation and determination to succeed in your life, without stress and anxiety
• Be your BEST SELF! 

We all have hopes and dreams in life, don’t we?
Some of us have a vision for the world and others want to enjoy life to the full.
Whatever our motivation in life we need to be healthy to achieve it.
Health is a many layered thing, rather like a trifle. When you mix the layers together you get a really good feeling – the same with health. If my body is beautifully honed and healthy, but my mind is stressed and anxious and I’m living on my nerves, I won’t be happy and eventually this will have a noticeable effect my body.  I emphasise noticeable because stress is already having an effect on my body and my ability to fight disease, even though I may not be aware of it. It is therefore not enough to focus just on my body to achieve optimum health.
Holistic health means achieving wholeness by ensuring all our fascinating layers work effectively together – Body, Mind and Spirit (or Soul).
I have found that meditation is one of the most effective ways of energising all levels of my being. It is significant that we are called Human Beings – both the Human (body) and the Being (Mind and Spirit) work together synergistically and symbiotically to create a fully rounded, healthy and whole individual.
One part of us cannot be healthy without the health of the other parts; just as we need vitamins and minerals to ensure the full function of our endocrine glands, which in turn ensure the full function of our organs; when Body, Mind and Soul are nurtured the result is radiant health and happiness. Happiness is one of the core qualities of the soul, as are peace, power, wisdom and love, so when the soul, or spirit, is regularly nurtured through meditation, our core qualities shine through, increasing our subtle attraction and our ability to excel in whatever we choose to do.

At Diamond Life Holistic Centre we offer FREE meditation sessions as a community Service on a Thursday evening at 7pm. Call 01493 719424 to book. See you there – Monica.

(Monica Porter has been teaching Raja Yoga Meditation for 23 years)

Our holistic centre has been open from the 3rd July with a Marie Curie fundraising Tea Party!  We raided £90! 
Supporters came from as far away as Cambridge and Sleaford to support us and local people dropped in all day to see the centre and what we have on offer and enjoy tea, coffee and cakes -  so many cup cakes!. We offer room hire to therapists who would like to become part of our team and you are also welcome to come and look round our facilities and have a chat over a cuppa. We have 2 therapy rooms and a training room and reception/ office. We can support whole day and weekend events too.