Coaching the Coach by Georgia Shaffer

Author:Georgia Shaffer [Shaffer, Georgia]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Bold Vision Books
Published: 2013-12-29T05:00:00+00:00

For instance, Adriana came to me and was upset because she wasn’t as popular as some of her friends. She had just spent more than $300 buying bathing suits to look cute on the beach and gain attention from the guys and be popular. She’d incurred major bills for highlights, make-up, lotions, clothes, and the latest shoes and bags.

As a coach and licensed counselor, when a deep-seeded issue like covetousness is revealed, I have to decide whether I can move my client forward using coaching or counseling. Sometimes coaching is all that’s needed, while other times counseling practices are necessary to help a client resolve underlying difficulties.

When I decide to continue coaching the client who is dealing with materialism, I found success in helping him or her focus on gratefulness and contentment. When clients become grateful and content with God and His provisions, they become more peaceful and less anxious. Clients who are able to replace stress with gratitude end up being less self-absorbed and prideful, and more thankful for those around them. Appreciative clients make better choices and enjoy more positive relationships.

In Adriana’s case, she began to learn to thank God for the things she had and how to recognize Him as the giver of these gifts. We worked on how to show gratefulness and how the lifestyle she was living was robbing her of the true joy of fellowship with God and the friendships that God placed in her life. We worked on developing some time for her to rest and count her blessings and reduced the time-robbers that were holding her back from true joy. We discussed what her material choices were bringing her and what she really wanted. We then set goals that would really move her in a direction that would bring her success based on solid biblical principles.

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