I have taken a break, you might have noticed.  As there are just so many hours in a day, I have been taking to write my first book.  Something just tells me though that keeping the blog alive and well is a worthwhile pursuit.  People have told me as much!

I sat down with a colleague of mine last week to brainstorm some ideas about running courses and workshops.  I asked Liz what the most common trends were in client sessions.  Remarkably (or perhaps not) her answer reflected my own experience of meeting client's needs.  "They want to move on with their lives and be free from their past".  That statement in isolation is not really remarkable.  Many people can identify with that.  I often remind my clients of this;. 'the best thing about the past is that it is over, good or bad'.  Of course we are really concentrating on the stuff that is no longer useful.  If you have experienced anything that is painful, limiting, frightening or disturbing - why would you ever want to repeat it?  You would have to be a crazy person - right?  Right!  So why is it then, that so many people use their past as a reference point for creating a future that looks scarily similar or even the same?

Everything that has happened to each of us up until now has brought us to where we are.  For whatever reason, there are experiences that mould, shape and form the people we are today.  Please remember though that you get to decide which of those things are useful and which ones are better left where they belong........  As a coach I do a lot of work on peoples' belief systems.  We look at negative beliefs, where they have come from and what they have cost you.  Usually when people get the true cost of dragging round negative beliefs they get really mad with themselves and stop doing it.  My colleague uses a rapid technique of releasing beliefs through forgiveness.  We thought it would be a great idea to combine that methodology of rapid release with my coaching expertise to build some more compelling beliefs. 

Watch this space.  If you are interested in being free from your past and want an effective and sustainable way to do it, this one might just be for you.