DEVELOPED FOR SURVIVORS, BY A SURVIVOR.
****
At its core, Coaching is a relationship that provides a safe, and encouraging space for clients to define how they would like to improve their life, creating goals that are positive, forward thinking, and inspiring; enabling them to live the best life possible.
As your coach, I will help you break down those life affirming goals into manageable steps to transition from where you are now to where you want to be.
I will honor the present position you are in, but also look to the future, supporting you as you explore your desires, feelings, and what you want your quality of life to feel and be like in a lasting way.
I will listen deeply to you and ask challenging, thought-provoking questions so you can gain a deeper understanding of yourself and your life.
I will provide accountability and lovingly challenge you to step outside your comfort zone or shift your perspective.
Coaching is a process that puts you in the driver’s seat of your own life, changing relationships or causing new, healthy relationships to form. Coaching can result in improving your health. It can lead to new behaviors, better decisions, healthier choices, and/or career advancement. Life coaching can give you a whole new lease on life, guiding you in ways that will serve you well, authentically grounding you, connecting you to who you truly are.
Having a coach can help you solve problems and correct destructive behaviors you never knew existed in ways that will leave you enlightened and confident; thus removing any doubts about yourself, how you want to walk in the world, and the legacy you want to leave behind.
Coaching is NOT counseling or therapy. I will NOT be telling you what to do.
Coaching is NOT consulting. I will NOT be giving you advice or telling you how to live your life.
I will be empowering you to create your own pathways and meanings.
I will come alongside you to facilitate the process, guide you in your endeavors, and celebrate all of your achievements.
A Coach does is NOT evaluate, assess or critique their clients or their life in any way.
As your Coach I will provide you a safe space for non-judgmental exchanges.
I see you. I hear you. I care. Greater than that, you deeply matter to me. However, I do NOT support you in the same way that a friend does.
As a trained Professional Life and Trauma Recovery Coach, I have the ability to remain impartial to you and your circumstances; all the while wanting the very best for you, supporting you in your desired growth. This allows me to hold you lovingly accountable in the times you may need it the most.
Coaches do NOT tell you what is right or wrong for you.
My aim is to help you uncover these answers for yourself. Your happiness is important. You are important.
****
Whatever we pay attention to grows. One of our most fundamental psychological needs is to be seen. Not looked at, but seen. Really seen, by someone who has walked in our shoes and understands our struggles and recognizes all the good, beautiful, and worthy parts of us and what we can become, we get stronger, gain self-worth, have more self-confidence, greater joy; a deeper sense of belonging, and an epiphany of our own power.
• • • • • •
You’ll meet only a few people in your whole life who are truly abandoned houses-rundown, worn out, collapsing at the seams. I’m not asking you to take a hammer and nails and pin up their rafters, fix their leaky faucets or put new panes of glass in their broken windows; I am asking you simply open their door, and spend a little time memorizing their floor plan .Get to know them. And when the time comes, I want you to draw back their curtains and, once and for all, let the light in.
***
Listening is a gift. It’s the most important thing we can do for a person. The right person, one that see your heart, and cares about your pain, they will hear you differently. They will encourage you to express yourself and they will take the time to understand.
Telling our stories, sharing our suffering with others turns the painful pieces that we disclose into profound healing and learning, thus giving us the opportunity to write our own courageously brave new ending. An ending we can view proudly and use as light to guide others.
• • • • • •
I hear you; even when you have nothing to say.
***
As a survivor myself, I can relate to you. Many years ago, when I first spoke out, it was a glorious feeling to know I was not alone. There are others who totally get it and can relate. I am not crazy, insecure, neurotic or overly emotional. I am not any of these, and neither are you. Trauma changes the brain. It affects the core of who we are. It pushes the activation of the nervous system beyond its ability. We are a product of what we suffered, but we don’t have to remain that way.
I base my practice on helping trauma survivors get a clear understanding of this. I care about you on a fundamental level. There is life outside of what we’ve suffered. It’s out there for all of us. You can build a life you love.
• • • • • •
My refusal to sugarcoat dark truths and my dedication to speaking up about what’s been going on doesn’t make me “bitter” – it makes me HONEST.
I won’t let pain turn my heart into something ugly. I will show you that surviving can be beautiful.
***
When I think of those that have made the biggest impact in my healing, it was not their expertise or accomplishments that gave me the direction, guidance, and the reassurance I needed, it was their sincere belief in me. They let me know through their words and actions that they sincerely believed in me. They believed in my strength, in my ability, and in my courage to shine.
Valuing yourself, learning self-compassion and care, dealing with issues as they happen with your head held high…. All of this matters, because YOU matter. You have a light to shine on this world and there are others desperate to see it.
It is time to unlearn the things you were taught by wounded people. Unlearn the childhood patterns that led you to silence your own voice and abandon your own needs.
• • • • • •
We all eat lies when our hearts are hungry. Getting to know yourself and experience life on an authentic level is so much more gratifying than the bed of lies you were taught to rest your head on at night. You’ve mastered survival mode. Now it’s time to live. I sincerely believe in you.
****
****
“Kerri was a huge help getting me thinking and moving forward!”
Amy Lloyd, Montana | CEO
“Coach Kerri is a good listener and inspires one to be their best self.”
Barbara Cocks, St. Maarten |Teacher
“I could not be happier with my experience with Kerri. She is so professional and truly listens. I would highly recommend her services. If you are looking to improve your life and better yourself then she is going to get you there. She has been through so much in her life and has learned how to deal with trauma. She is very knowledgeable. With her personal experience and training, it makes her uniquely qualified to provide personalized services. She is genuine in all her work as helping people is her desire.”
Beth Ristovska, Alabama | Engineer
“Flexible. Intuitive. Responsive. Caring. From our first coaching session together, Kerri helped me clarify my thoughts on what I’ve suffered and identify what I needed to do to move forward. She helped me see the ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ by breaking down the steps I needed to take into bite-sized actions. I would highly recommend Kerri as a personal coach. Her follow-through is remarkable, as is her steadfast positive attitude. I would definitely work with her again!”
Tim C., Tennessee | Project Management
Ready to rediscover you?
Schedule a consultation today. Let’s talk.
I 'd love to learn about you, and what your life would look like if you designed it from this day forward.