Always follow your thoughts

As an executive coach you would not be surprised to read that I try and focus on my thoughts and have awareness about when they arise and how they evolve. Whilst I never know how long they have been ticking along in my subconscious mind, I always try to notice when they pop into my conscious thoughts, it’s often at really fascinating and obscure times and this blog is about my most recent experience.

Last week, I went to visit the beautiful Russian-Orthodox church in the hills of Neroberg overlooking Wiesbaden, where we now live. Looking at the beautiful funerary monument built for the Grand Duchess and her newborn daughter, brought to mind a thought that I wanted to write down and share:

I believe my clients to be whole and resourceful, it is the way I support them as a coach and how I show up for every session. It is important for our work, so clients are able to process the thoughts that come to mind and can sort through their ‘stuff’ in an intentional and authentic way. We are all fragmented mosaics from an infinite gilt scene. Beautiful and complex, light and shadow, sharp and blunt - sometimes believing we are doing the best thing through one lens whilst reinforcing the worst in another. To walk alongside another and say I’m here with you, is a journey of discovery and for that brief moment a reciprocal gift. A promise of attention, true adventure and a crucible to form something new and more resilient, founded from the dust of our experience and fired with the will to be the best version of ourselves.

A grounded step transforms, into soaring wings.