About Work-Life Balance Coaching Feeling a sense of being overwhelmed? There are ways to increase habits of resilience (having the ability to bounce back quickly) that can help shape your life choices, prioritize, and stop the cycle of doing too much and "burning the candle at both ends." Work-Life Balance coaching involves taking a look at every aspect of your life. Together, we take notice of who is in your world and what a rich life you have. What if you didn't have these people in your world? (children, spouse, etc.) Then we look at what is in your world. What are your circumstances, requests, expectations, and needs? How is your world? In other words, what does stress feel like in your world right now? How are you doing physically, intellectually, spiritually, and emotionally? When you can name your world, such as your emotional state of mind, then you can develop skills to deal with it. There's a constant dynamic in the world called demand vs. capacity. The elements of capacity are physical energy, emotional wellness, intellectual capability, and general competence. The world wants us to do and have all these things. When the demands exceed our capacity, we create stress within ourselves. We stretch to try to meet demands of others and the first thing we do is not meet our own needs - not the way to go! When we get "stressed" we try to get out of the present when the present is right where we need to be. When it comes to accepting demands, get the "shoulds" out of your vocabulary. Make the shift from "should" to "want." Check your capacity. "Checking to see if I can and want to fulfill a promise before I make it is good for me and good for others." Anne Wilson Schaef, Meditations for Women Who Do Too Much. When you say "no" to one thing you are making room to say "yes" to something else. So, we look at the specific demands and unique circumstances in your life and brainstorm ways to restore and maintain your capacity. Some of this information comes from Katie Cooney, M.A., C.M.F. [ Back to Services page. ]