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Wendy |
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PARENT
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Why a
Parent Coach? |
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This
question has a part for you and a part for me. The part for me
to answer is, why did I become interested in focusing part of my
coaching practice on coaching
parents? |
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Wendy's
children (L-R)
Liat, Ori, Talia, Ilan and Yael |
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I am the mother of five children, three girls and two boys.
In my own personal journey of raising my kids, I know there have
been many times when I could have used a coach - someone to see
the things that I couldn't see, someone to champion me, and
someone to encourage and stimulate me into coming up with my own
creative solutions to the problems I faced.
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How incredible it would have been to have someone who could see
how my Old Story was limiting me, and help me start to
envision - and live - my New Story! So in the end, it is my
own journey as a parent that has led me most of all to become a
Parent Coach, because I have seen and experienced first-hand how
coaching can inspire and support a person in becoming
self-empowered, not only as a parent, but in every aspect of their
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As parents,
especially as parents, we often feel like there is no time,
and certainly no energy, for creating a New Story for
ourselves. We get used to living our Old Story, because we are
just too overwhelmed and tired to do anything about it. So we
resign ourselves that this is just the way it is. Maybe one
day, when the kids are grown, it will be different. |
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I am here
to take a stand for you to make your life what you want it to be
right NOW. You can live a more satisfying and fulfilled life
today, if you are willing to open up to a clean page, and start
creating your New Story now. |
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How
can you benefit from working with a Parent Coach? |
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In today's
fast-paced world, the days of kids just coming home to play in the
neighborhood after school, or families sitting down together for
dinner every night, are long-gone. As parents, we are
constantly on the run – carpooling our children to endless
activities, dealing with a constant stream of issues and situations
competing for our attention, and trying to balance both our work and
home lives. It’s no wonder we are stressed out! |
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In the middle of all
this, we are trying to maintain some sense of self (and hopefully
our sense of humor as well). As much as we’d like to, we rarely seem
to find the time for the things we used to love to do pre-kids, and
we often lose touch with ourselves as individuals. We become so
immersed in the job of parenting and day-to-day living that we no
longer have a sense of who we really are.
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within ourselves the strength we need to be able not only to
survive, but to thrive? How can we empower ourselves in the
face of tremendous pressures and responsibilities, not only as
parents but in the rest of our lives as well? How can we
love and nurture our children, without neglecting ourselves, our
partners, our careers, and our heartfelt desires and dreams for
our own future? |
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My
adult son and I worked with Wendy to learn how to communicate in a
more positive, less judgmental way. Her ability to draw out the
depth of feelings in each of us, to help us both look at each
other/life in a different way was amazing. It's made a huge
difference in our relationship. We both continue to practice what
she taught us and our relationship continues to thrive. |
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Sondra, |
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Certified massage therapist |
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Coach, I will help you navigate the many trials and
tribulations involved in raising a child, or children, and
also provide support and insight to help you to be more
effective as a parent. However, most importantly, I will
encourage and empower you to learn how to make time to nurture
yourself in the process, and to rediscover who you are as a
person, beyond being a parent. I will partner with you
to create a sense of balance and inner-groundedness for
yourself, so that you will learn to go through your day with a
refined sense of what's really necessary, and what's not. You
will be supported in being the best parent you can be, while
realizing that no parent is ever perfect. Most of all,
you will see the importance of taking care of YOU -- finding
time for yourself and pursuing your own dreams, as you also
strive to raise healthy, happy, well-adjusted kids. |
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Some
of the areas I specialize in
are: |
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Helping parents to create more positive
relationships with their children, and not lose themselves in
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Supporting parents in maintaining loving
and healthy relationships with each other and not just living
through their children |
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Support for both working moms, and
stay-at-home moms (or dads) |
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Support for single parents, or parents in
the process of a separation or
divorce |
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Helping parents maintain loving and strong
relationships with their
teens |
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Helping parents avoid empty-nest syndrome
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leaves home - so that they will already have full and
rewarding lives and not have to ask themselves, "now
what?" |
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Support for new parents, step parents,
parents of large families, parents of children with special
needs, and parents in "mixed" or unique marriages (religion,
race, same sex) |
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Whatever the issue,
as your Parent Coach, I can provide support and encouragement, and
help you find new ways to look at old issues. You will learn to
approach parenting with a better sense of who YOU really are, what
your children really need (and don’t need) from you, and most of
all, what you need for yourself. |
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How
will you choose to live your
life? |
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usually excellent about nurturing their children, something that
children truly need to grow up to be healthy, happy adults.
But what about the nurturing of the parent? Who takes care of
that? My belief is that, unless you learn to nurture yourself
and your own soul (as well as that of your child)
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A vision
without action is just a dream; an action without a vision
just passes time. A vision with an action changes the
world." |
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Nelson Mandela |
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during the journey
of parenthood, that journey will most likely be a bumpy one. You
will also enter your post-raising-children life worn out, personally
unsatisfied, and spiritually unfulfilled. Your children will
hopefully be strong and living full, rewarding lives - but it will not
be something that they have learned by watching you. What would
it be like if this was something they
had learned from observing how you life your life? What if
parents could learn to nurture themselves along with nurturing their
children? |
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That's
where I come in! We will work together to make this not just a
theoretical question, but a way that you live your life, and an
integral part of your New Story. |
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Time is precious, as
we notice even more once we have children. It’s easy to get
caught up in the day-to-day business and busy-ness of our lives, and
lose sight of what we really want to do (or be) in the broader
scheme of things. As parents, we are even more challenged in
doing this, as so much of our time and energy goes into our
children. I believe that by focusing some of that time and
energy on yourself as well, you will become not only a better person
(and parent), but you will also teach your children to value and
appreciate who they are, and claim for themselves a life of joy,
grace and purpose, as they have seen you do for yourself. |
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