I’m sure many of us have gone through times in our life when things don’t seem to be making sense and all of our focus goes on trying to figure out why you are so unlucky and why things aren’t going your way – wanting to find someone or something to blame.
I’ve not been great in the past with sharing my feelings with anyone and generally keeping things inside. I don’t like to worry others and would prefer to share in their happy times and help them through their tough times than talk about myself. I’ve even thought in the past that people probably wouldn’t want me to burden them with my worries or problems, with no real evidence that this was the case at all!
It got to a point where I wanted to try to understand why I thought so badly of myself when there were people in the world who made time for me, tried to help when I was down, offered me advice and clearly saw something in me that I didn’t.
I still wasn’t ready to talk to someone about it or burden a friend or family member, so decided instead to try to find ways of learning about myself and my feelings and understanding why I might be feeling that way.
As I’ve said before, I love to learn, so I started researching courses on psychology and mental health etc. but all were expensive or not really what I was looking for. I wasn’t looking for a course that looked into my past and tried to find a reason why I felt a certain way, I wanted to feel better!
It was about this time that I saw an advert for the New Skills Academy, Life Coaching course and a discount off the courses price. It was definitely a sign! I paid up and started the course on-line.
It took me about 4 weeks of on and off studying (mainly in Starbucks!) and finally I was ready to take the final test….
Rather pleased with myself!
Life Coaching Diploma Certificate
I really have learnt a lot from this course and hope it can help me help others in the future. I haven’t stopped there, I now actively read about, listen to podcasts and go along to events that will help me understand myself and the people around me better. I don’t think I will ever stop learning, but it feels good that I can now understand why someone might act a certain way or why I might feel a certain way.
The way we think, act, feel and treat ourselves and others can always be changed for the better, we just need to be open to differing opinions, challenge and change and not being afraid of living our lives differently to others.
I write more about this in a previous blog post that you can read here.
One (wo)man and her (cara)van 