HOW COACHING CHANGED MY LIFE

Lucy Hayward, a massage therapist and business founder, started sessions with Barefoot-trained coach Lucy Tulloch when she felt she was at a crossroads in her career as a sales manager. ‘I felt confused, unhappy, stressed and stuck in a rut,’ says Lucy. ‘I didn’t know which direction to take my career.’

1

I always had an unrealistic to-do list and dwelled on what I hadn’t achieved. While working with Lucy, I realised that I couldn’t remember the last time I felt content. Coaching helped me understand my unhelpful feelings of not being good enough and comparing myself with others.

2

During coaching, I learned to appreciate my strengths. Lucy helped me understand the negative labels I gave myself that were holding me back. It was a powerful and emotional process. I now feel in a much stronger place mentally – calm, content and relaxed.

3

Lucy introduced me to the ‘career timeline’ – a supportive and reflective journey through my career. It gave me clarity about what I like, don’t like, what was important to me and gave me satisfaction. It highlighted what was missing and was the start of me becoming unstuck. I began believing that anything was possible and became positive and hopeful. I wrote in my journal after that session: ‘This was a game changer’. As a result of coaching, I changed my 20-year career to retrain as a massage therapist and now run a successful practice.