I listened to a call by one of my mentor coaches this week, Martha Beck, in which she talked about the rapidly accelerating pace of change that is taking place in the world, and in all of our lives, like never before. There is a quickening going on and we are finding situations in our lives collapsing in a way that we are being called to reinvent ourselves, over and over, often in profound and dramatic ways.
Relationships are falling apart, careers dissolving, finances changing and health being challenged. We are being stressed and stretched to our limits in many ways. This is an unprecedented time in history that most of us don’t really have the perspective to fully see or understand. Martha has a PhD in sociology from Harvard so she is able to see these social trends and trace these patterns with the unique viewpoint of someone who has studied this.
Are you feeling or experiencing this in your life? Do you feel the pressure to change and the desire to birth something new but you have no idea what is happening? Is your life as you know it dissolving before your eyes? Do you feel lost and confused in unexpected ways while also feeling a deep urge to make a difference in the world and do something more meaningful? If so, you are not alone.
I recently attended a conference with my mentor coach and 150 women who are currently taking her year-long coach training program. My mentor is a highly successful, well-known, accomplished, transformational coach who teaches the business, mindset, and coaching skills to create a thriving business in this field. She has developed a multi-million dollar coaching company, which is rare in this field, knows what it takes to do so, and teaches by example as any true mentor does.
Over the years of working with clients as a psychotherapist and life coach, I have witnessed many people go through periods of time in which they felt everything was falling apart. Life is full of unexpected losses, changes, and transitions such as an illness, a job loss, a divorce, a cross-country move, a major financial setback, etc. However, there are those times in life in which multiple uncontrollable events may be happening all at once that push you to the edge of your ability to cope and keep you from wanting to get out of bed in the morning.
I have been a participant this year in a program called Your Year of Miracles led by NY Times best-selling author Marci Shimoff and success expert Debra Poneman. The program has had some of the most notable inspirational teachers, thought leaders and authors as weekly guest speakers and we have been taught some of the best tools available for making life changes.