Life Coaching

LIFE COACHING – Coaching is having someone there in a nuts and bolts way to help you figure out the workings of your life, and even your dreams. Coaching is not meant to be targeted at psychological illness or a history of addictive behaviors, although almost any subject is welcomed in your coaching sessions. Through these, you pinpoint what’s most important to you. Thoughts, words, and deeds become the future you so even though it’s been tough in the past – we have the one to one “sounding board” to now adjust as you go. No judgment, just help. You may go in one direction and then want to go another way – it’s all about the search for you.

Individual Life Skills
•Goal setting
•Life Goals Review
•Staying on task and motivated with addiction treatment and life ambitions
•Assistance in achieving goals

Time Management
•Managing time to relieve stress with a busy schedule
•Balancing time/work/school/recreation/home/family

Overcoming procrastination
•Maintaining motivation in Life / Sobriety
•Changing the procrastinating mind set
•Dangers of procrastination

Acting as a role model
•Definition of a leader
•Thinking beyond yourself
•Having a positive mentor

Attitude awareness
•Psychological dynamics of attitude
•The value of positive thinking
•The process of change in attitude
•(Thoughts + Feelings = Actions and behaviors)

Budgeting
•Budgeting and terms.
•Defining necessities, flexible luxury, varying expenses, debt to income ratio
•Banking, savings and bill paying
•Reality check: What it means and what it takes to be independent. (Semi-independent living/independent)
•Achieving independence

Personal Hygiene/Healthy lifestyles
•Making hygiene a priority in your life
•Activities of daily healthy living

Confidence 101
•Being in the moment, creating confidence
•Confidence building
•Mapping the brain to resist low self esteem
•Make up of confidence

Healthy communication styles
•Awareness of personal communication
•Different communication styles and techniques
•How to improve communication skills

Positive coping skills
•Understanding disappointment, stress, and unhappiness
•New ways to deal with life on life’s terms

JOB SKILLS

Developing a resume that works
•Proper formatting
•Making your resume stand out
•Job searching

Business ethics
•Excelling within your company
•Creating value
•Basic performance in the work force

Tech 1
•Effectively using computers and the internet
•Basic skills of a general lifestyle.

PSYCH/ HUMAN RELATIONS

Neurophysiology of the brain/understanding addiction
•How the brain works
•Your brain on drugs opposing a fully functional brain

The process of withdrawal
•Physiological, Mental, and emotional withdrawal
•First week of detox or drug and alcohol rehab

Effects of alcohol on the mind and body
•Detoxing and the mind
•Addiction treatment/recovery process

Effects of psychotropic medications on the brain
•Physiological, Mental, and emotional withdrawal

Overcoming anxiety
•Redirecting anxiety and your thought processes through cognitive thinking

Human sexuality and interactions
•Questions, roles and what it means
•Exploring physiological, sociological and psychological
•Real factors relating to human sexual behavior

“Jumping the Fence”
•How the addictive personality finds new focus.

Creative Arts
•Focus on creative expression, interaction and speaking publicly