Because wellness encompasses so many areas of life, coaching can focus on many things. Below are just a few areas where I have coached, plus some topics where I offer tools, techniques, and information to help you with your transformation.
Stress Management
Learn how to manage your stress effectively and discover how to live your life with more peace and ease. Using various techniques and tools, you will learn how to handle emotions causing stress, such as anger and negativity, changing your interactions with others for the better. And the best part is, you will be a healthier and happier you!
Increase Self-Compassion
Using evidence-based tools and your willingness to do this important work, I can help you to learn to accept yourself exactly as you are, right now, in this moment. Research shows that cultivating self-compassion has many health benefits. In addition, self-compassion makes you more resilient. What does this mean? It means you are able to reach your goals more easily because you learn to accept and believe in yourself, trust and love yourself, and know that you are worth it! Building your self-compassion builds your self-confidence.
Improve Self-Confidence
Lack of confidence can undermine just about any change you are seeking in life. I can listen to what is behind your lack of confidence and give you tools to empower you. You can see the world in a whole new light with a renewed, positive vision of yourself.
Time Management
Most people will benefit greatly with coaching on time management. Get to the bottom of what's happening to keep you from getting done what you'd like to accomplish. You may find it difficult to stay organized and on task with so many distractions in today's world. Explore and discover what resistance you may be experiencing, and discover the peace of mind that comes with managing your time more effectively.
Life Transitions
Are you at a crossroads in life? A fork in the road? A potential career change, handling new parenthood, facing retirement? By listening to your concerns, fears, desires, and needs, I can help cultivate awareness within you that will not only help you decide, but will ensure you make the decision that is right for you.
Improve Relationships
Coaching can be very beneficial to improving relationships, no matter what the type – family, romantic, professional – any type of relationship that is causing difficulty in your life. I can help you to explore these areas and determine an approach to improve them.
“I have worked with Sherry Leikin for about one year. In that time she has been indispensable, not only as a coach, but as a reliable and trustworthy ally. Sherry has walked with me through some major life events including a career change, a return to school, and more importantly, a transformation in my thoughts of life and my awareness. There is a very comforting and encouraging way about Sherry. She quickly gained my respect and my trust in her role as a coach. Her coaching has enabled me to reconsider and reconfigure what was a very negative and cynical world view. In her inimitable style, she has worked with me to cultivate healthy habits including mindfulness and meditation exercises. Certain exercises which Sherry makes use of, while seemingly straightforward and simple, have been completely revolutionary in my day to day awareness. My life has changed so much for the better thanks to Sherry. I feel confident in highly recommending Sherry to friends and family members and would be glad to discuss her talent and abilities with anyone who was considering her as a coach – her results will impress even the most cynical.”
“I was so blessed to be able to work with Sherry! She was so easy to talk to and relate to what I was going through. Every time we had a session I would go into it with something I didn’t know what was the best way to go forward, or I was stressed about a certain issue. Every time after it was amazing – I would feel confident about how to go forward and my stress would be gone!!””
Mindfulness/Meditation
Probably one of the most amazing things you can do for yourself is to practice mindfulness. It's easy, essentially costless, and will benefit your life in every aspect. I will teach you mindfulness practices, such as meditation, and suggest valuable resources for learning and practicing meditation. I will share the brain science that supporting the tremendous benefits of mindfulness. I absolutely love to share this enlightening information with my clients!
Nutrition/Weight Loss
With all the conflicting information on nutrition, I wanted to learn all I could about what to feed myself and my family. I have undergone my own personal transformation with food and nourishment, and have learned not only a simple way to approach eating but some great cooking techniques as well. A certain four-letter word (diet) can be erased from your life forever if you approach food with some knowledge and mindfulness and, of course, with coaching around your personal eating behaviors.
“Before working with Sherry I had never been coached, and I was a bit apprehensive and unsure about how it would go. I ended up having such a great experience. Overall, Sherry was able to help me learn to be more mindful and compassionate towards myself, two things that have come to serve me in all aspects of my life – my relationships, my professional aspirations, and just my day to day happiness. I liked how flexible Sherry was as a coach, and how each session was left open to whatever I wanted to discuss or try to tackle that day. Throughout our conversations, she gave me a lot of space to explore my own thoughts, emotions, and goals. I recommend Sherry to help empower you to make lifestyle changes in your life.”
Privacy/Confidentiality
Your personal information, and whatever we discuss in coaching, is strictly confidential and will not be shared with anyone. Your personal information does not fall under the guidelines of "Privileged" for legal purposes and as such can never be legally requested, as is the case with therapists, clergy, and attorneys.