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Life Coaching

What Is Co-Active Coaching?
Co-Active coaching is a style of life coaching that believes each person has the answers and knowledge within themselves to face any challenge in their lives. The coach and client work together to uncover those answers.

The job of a Co-Active Coach® is to ask questions, listen to you, and observe your physical and emotional reactions to help you develop and use your skills and creativity, rather than instructing you or advising you what to do.

Who Can Benefit From Life Coaching
How Can You Benefit from Life Coaching?
You can improve your life through coaching...

  • If you are facing the decision of whether or not to have weight loss surgery
  • If you have recently undergone weight-loss surgery and want coaching on how to make the most of the opportunities the surgery gives you.
  • If you feel challenged or even overwhelmed by the lifestyle changes you are making.
  • If you have done well after weight-loss surgery but now find yourself slipping back into your old habits.
  • If you are constantly sabotaging your efforts to make the changes necessitated by weight-loss surgery.
  • If you are struggling to get back on track, to return to doing the things that will improve your life.
  • If you are facing major changes and decisions in your life brought about by having the surgery
  • If the surgery has brought about such large changes that you are questioning who you are , what you want, and where you are going.

    How are the sessions conducted?
    Do you need to meet in person with your Coach?
    All coaching takes place over the phone, except in special circumstances. This make it much more convenient for you and allows you to connect with your coach from anywhere in the United States. You and your coach agree on a time each week for you to call. It doesn’t matter what city or state the coach is located in, During the session, you and your coach discuss what has been challenging for you, questions you have, places where you feel stuck, or what’s going well and what’s next. You may check in with your coach by email during the week to report your progress or ask questions.

    How Is Coaching Different from Psychotherapy?
    Psychotherapy focuses mainly on addressing your medical conditions, which may be both psychological and/or physical. The process may focus on resolving and healing issues rooted in the client’s past. The psychotherapist can deal with issues related to trauma response, abuse or addictions. Psychotherapy sessions are usually carried out in person.

    A coach focuses on helping you find ways to achieve your goals and dreams. A coach guides you to develop your life now and for the future. A Co-active coaches believe that people are” are naturally creative, resourceful, whole, and completely capable, with a little guidance, of finding their own answers to whatever challenges they face.

    Coach Gail
    Gail Engebretson has struggled with her weight and the issues surrounding this problem all her life. Since early childhood she suffered from prejudice against obesity. By age 50 she weighed 330 pounds and began having medical problems due to obesity. She took the big step of having gastric bypass surgery on March 21, 2004 and within18 months she lost 170 pounds.

    A bigger challenge has been keeping the weight off – a challenge for all weight-loss surgery patients. She has been succeeding through educating herself on the effects of weight-loss surgery and changing her lifestyle. She has become more confident, outgoing, and active, spending much of her free time enjoying biking, hiking, tennis, kayaking, dancing, kick boxing, and swimming.

    Gail has mentored people considering weight-loss surgery through the UW Health Bariatric Surgery Program in Madison, Wisconsin for three years. She has provided inspiration and information to individuals and groups. She has taken her individual experiences coupled with training as a life coach to guide bariatric patients through the challenges before and after the surgery.

    Gail is receiving her life coach training from The Coaches Training Institute (CTI). CTI is the largest in-person coach training school in the world. They provided the first accredited coach training program to come under the International Coach Federation. CTI has the largest number of certified coaches globally.

    Coach Gail can be reached via email at g.notesLLC@gmail.com

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