“Forever grateful to my coach for bringing daily joy back to my life.”
“At the beginning of the process, I was in a bad place.
It was hard for me to organize, create priority schemes between all the aspects of my life, and I was very oblivious to my own well-being. I was literally overwhelmed and terribly stressed, and it was almost impossible for me to start solving any of the diverse aspects of my life. The state of mind that I was in was created after several years of neglecting myself and my own priorities. It led me to consider ending my life, being that the wake-up call that I needed to start looking for help. I started therapy, but it was not enough. I still had a really hard time focusing, finding a proper balance between work and personal life, and generally felt like I was just surviving. After having a talk with a friend, he suggested that I try coaching as an additional tool for the healing process.
To be honest, I had no idea what to expect before I started working with my coach. Because of the place I was at emotionally, I felt maybe I was loading him with way too much information and issues, some of them that run too deep to be solved by coaching. I’m glad we decided to work together because the coaching journey was a life-changing experience, and it provided so much more than imagined.
Rayner is a generous sensible person, and he gives himself completely during coaching. He was quite attentive to my state of mind, which was very useful during our first sessions, helping me always find a way to connect and be present. He was also sensible and adaptable and helped me find tools that improve focus and organizational capacity, even when things are hectic. Our conversations were deep and meaningful, and his energy, even when through a screen and more than 10,000 miles away, was always calm and positive.
I am absolutely in admiration of the way he works. Whenever I was expressing some particularly difficult situation, he would close his eyes and connect with his feelings and knowledge. When he opened them again, he would have the precise word or the most effective recommendation. It was a fantastic learning experience for me, and I still implement those “forced pauses” in my everyday life, combining them with the tools that were effective during our coaching.
I can tell with certainty that I am not the same person that started this journey. I’m more relaxed in my interactions, focused and secure in my work, and a lot kinder to myself. I enjoy life more, can make better decisions at work, and also learned to accept myself in ways that I never even thought to in all the years of life. I have learned to identify some important indicators that appear when I’m starting to get overwhelmed, so I can stop, re-focus, and find a healthy way to face the multiplicity of challenges we all face in our daily lives. These tools and this way of perceiving life will have long-lasting effects on my person. They feel like the emotional equivalent of a safety rope. Even when things get complicated and overwhelming, I now have this safe rope to hang on to. This rope keeps me connected to a safe mental place where I can take care of myself to be able to support others while making this world a better place.
I would, without a doubt, recommend this coaching process to anyone that is working on healing themselves, rediscovering life, and readjusting priorities. If you are working on finding ways to be more efficient and capable of handling multiple unexpected responsibilities in an orderly, healthy, and meaningful way this is also good for you. With a relatively short investment of time, you can see results quite fast, and it truly is a game-changer. As one of the most significant outcomes of this process, I’m forever grateful to my coach for bringing daily joy back to my life. Thanks from the bottom of my heart.”
Dra. Rocío Palacios
Executive Director, Andean Cat Alliance (Alianza Gato Andino)
