Helping Divergent Thinkers Shine

One of many things that I am grateful to Amy for is her integrity. Over almost two years of coaching, she comes to every meeting we schedule and reliably gives her attention to me. Her showing up for me has taught me how to show up for myself.

Amy’s been very helpful for my daughter with her math work, but when I started a new job at the same time my high school aged son began to get behind on his assignments, that’s when Amy really helped! She’s working with the 3 of us now — helping me manage our family’s transition from having a stay-at-home mom to having a working mom, helping my son organize and track his school work and get his thoughts together for his writing assignments, and helping my daughter with her math. I couldn’t be juggling all of this without her!

I highly recommend Amy as a coach. As a writer diagnosed with ADD, Amy’s been a perfect fit for me. She is not only an ADHD coach, but also works with other writers. She gets what I’m struggling with. We work on both ADD and writing issues as well as external issues that I allow to intrude into my writing space.  

Coaching with Amy has had a positive influence on my writing in multiple ways. Amy pushes me to dig deep looking for underlying root causes to issues I’ve identified (or she’s asked me about). She holds me accountable for the actions I say I’m going to do and don’t. She’s gentle and there’s understanding about the speed humps I encounter. There’s a positive discussion about what worked, and what didn’t and why.  

Throughout my life I was always physically exhausted and had no idea why. The exhaustion made it, a) incredibly hard to find my life purpose and b) incapable of living it once I found it. I am not sure how Amy did it, but she got me to dig deep and look at why that was. For me, this was the most important aspect of my coaching time together with Amy. It was her ability to get me to see that I was always running at top speed until I collapsed and ended up putting myself in ICU (metaphorically speaking). What made this worse was that I never healed myself prior to getting back out in the race and ended up putting myself back into ICU again. 

Through our discussions, Amy’s thought provoking questions helped me to understand this. For that I am very grateful and wish her the best in her coaching career. Through our co-creation, she definitely helped me and I expect her to be a pioneer in shaping the next evolution of coaching.