For most other things, my truth and your truth may be very different and yet they may both be very valid. So what does truth mean in coaching? When your truth might not be that relevant for your clients and you don’t want to squash your client’s more relevant truth with your own just because that’s what you are used to?

Luckily, there is a personal truth, that is very clearly guiding each and every one of us throughout our life. That guides your clients. Let’s look at that and how it can provide the guiding light for your client sessions. Change becomes a lot less hard work when clients can swim downstream, following their inner current of deep (soul) truth.

 

This is the truth in convictions we hold. Constructs that we have picked up somewhere along the line, that may support us, or may hold us back.

As a Soul-based Coach, we are interested in these mind-based truths, we notice them, but they don’t set the direction for the work. (Sure, we can do mindset work, but any work is going to be much more effective when we work from the deepest truth of our client.)

 

Clear information about our boundaries. About what we desire. But also learned truth through trauma, big and small. There are parts of our body that are left in old stories that feel like truth.

As a coach, we honour this body truth and notice what we need to come back to while the change process is underway. In this way, a new change can be 100% aligned and not held back by old parts that are now becoming outdated. And the medicine, the wisdom in those older parts can be integrated and released rather than trying to erase of overwrite them.

 

That truth often has a timelessness to it. It has a ‘rightness’, a very clear knowing to it. It is a truth that is felt deeply. A knowing that transcends the mind’s knowing. When you experience it, you immediately know the difference. It doesn’t come with a lot of words. The words that come have deep roots, no matter what emotions may be involved. It feels coherent in the body. As a coach, you can even see the difference when your client taps into this level of knowing.

That truth is what we teach you to help your clients find within themselves. That is what sets our session’s direction.

And it is where magic can start to happen: change starting from within, carried by the clients own inner resources, their innate capacity for healing and change. And those are the most powerful resources available to us.