Welcome to Your Turning Point Coach

Irle's Pearls are borrowed from Professor Irle Goldman back in February 2004.  Irle was my  professor in Psychopathology when I was getting my MA in Counseling Psycholoigy

These are always important for counselor, coach and client

I always return to these to remember how I can help others.

Tornadoes can pick us up and drop us in strange and unwanted places. Shit happens! Death, sickness, losing a job, a friend, a divorce….Anxiety, depression, substance abuse, etc., etc. etc.…

... is the story of our journeys and of our lives

Will we follow the yellow brick road? Will we go forth to bring back the witch’s broomstick?  Do we challenge, mourn, flee, go on a heroic journey, fall apart, get help, , etc., etc. etc.…

... through consultation, advice and a resonant relationship

How we help people understand their stories, their life journeys can help them change who they think they are

This changes who they are and what they can do.

Remember the wisdom the wizard shared with the lion, tinman and scarecrow in order tohelp them heal

We can’t cure or rescue anyone, even if our clients expect it.  We often don’t know how it works. We can help people to help themselves.

We can be a trusted – and sometimes wise – fellow traveler

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Be yourself…show yourself. 

 Be a real person. 

Your clients may learn more from your failures than your successes

Not the destination, but the process.  It’s how you do it, not what you accomplish.

How we deal with the “slings and arrows” of (our) outrageous fortune determines the stories of our lives, rather than where we get to in the end

But sometimes we are not ready for it. 

Sometimes, to change the outside we need to look inside, and to change the inside (like Dorothy), we need to look outside (like her friends)

Pay attention to the here and now…and the possibilities for change