Quite simply, emotional skills are genuinely life changing...

I haven’t always been an emotional skills "𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭". In fact, I spent lots and lots of my previous years being an emotional "𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐬" 😶‍🌫️

Not on the outside...on the outside I seemed positive, professional, resilient. If anyone asked how I was, I was always busy moving forward, everything was ‘okay’. 𝐀𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 to move the attention away from me! 🏃‍♀️

In fact, my teaching colleagues used to understandably tease me, saying that anything that came my way at work, no matter how unhelpful or challenging was, according to me, “𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫, 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭!” 🌟

INSIDE...hmmmm...quite a different story! I wasn’t just performing to the outside world, I was showing up like this to try and convince 𝐌𝐘𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐅 that I was ‘doing well at life’ day to day.

Then, 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐌! A career break with two little ones while my husband travelled internationally with work. Suddenly...my unhelpful emotional experience was with me 24/7! 🧠

Looking back, I am SO glad this happened to me. My overly analytical brain and love of learning was about to really help me out! It led me to 𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬...

Back to my graduate skills, I was researching psychology and neuroscience to apply to my everyday:
📚 How can I 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 my emotional life for the better?

📚 What does emotional skill 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 like?

📚 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 for me that I haven’t yet learned?

As I applied this learning to my own experience it blew me away! Absolutely my biggest lightbulb moment about life (hence Coaching Illumination Ltd). 𝑵𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 has impacted my life more than emotional self-support skills. 💡

Turns out that ME on the inside (my emotional experience and how I experience the world around me), could be 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒆𝒅 in ways I previously never knew possible.

𝐈𝐟 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡, 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨𝐨. It will be my privilege to show up here with support for you from now on.