This is a question we often get, and an important topic. Anyone interested in helping people make lasting changes in their lives, will benefit from knowing how to pay attention to the body. To benefit from its wisdom, experience and power for change.

So yes, Soul-based Coaching has an embodied approach to change.

How?
Well, you may have seen that we work through our client’s embodied metaphors.They hold and give access to deep body & soul wisdom, as well as help access painful memories and experiences stored in our system.But what utterly fascinates me, even after 20 years of doing this work, is that these embodied metaphors also give clients access to their own, innate capacity for healing and change.We get to watch the self-healing and change abilities in action – in every session. And it’s quite miraculous to witness.

• Snakes being born
• Black blobs melting into the aliveness of a sparkling sun
• A hoover that tidies up the smaller and bigger beads that were left behind,
• A yoke around a neck that belonged to a grandmother,
• Gates of different sizes and shapes that want to open, or need to close – the variety is endless.

And all of these metaphors were part of clients journeys where at the end of their session, the metaphors had morphed, changed, integrated in exactly the ways that made sense for that particular client, and that particular metaphor landscape.

And it’s not just ideas and new perspectives.

These are changes that happen within and through the body. People FEEL different, in the moment, in the session. Their old patterns are not available in the same way as they were before. And that’s how the changes that happen can be sustainable, lasting over time.

It’s so interesting that when embodied metaphors change, so do our neural pathways.

And of course, our neural pathways are informed by and have a direct relationship with how and what we feel through our bodies.

If you ask me, it’s magical – and 95% of people have this ability once we know where to put our attention…

So yes, the Soul-based Coaching modality is an embodied approach to lasting change.

Want to know more? Take the on-demand introduction workshop Choose Soul. 

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