Caroline's Interview

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Caroline Oswald, One of Thousands of Life Coaches on Noomii.

What kind of coaching do you do?

• I deal mostly with helping people find a way to change. A lot has to do with making difficult decisions. The reason the decisions are so difficult is generally because the person doesn’t want to hurt someone they love who is relying on them in a way that is too demanding.

Who is your ideal client?

• A person who is stuck and feels like life cannot change for him/her.

What is the challenge your typical client is trying to overcome?

• Identifying how he/she can do something to change circumstances which have felt beyond their control and which have negatively been affecting the quality of their life for a long time.

How do you help your client overcome their challenge?

• It’s not easy. It’s actually very hard for someone to overcome a challenge when it involves someone they love. With my aid the person comes to realize that they can still help out the person they love without having to sacrifice their own happiness in the process. It’s more than just presenting options it’s about helping them find the way out which will satisfy everyone involved.

What is your background? How did you get into coaching?

• All my life I have been big into self-analysis. I’ve always wanted to improve myself. For a time I thought about becoming a motivational speaker. I have always been a studier of human behavior. What people are willing to accept always amazes me especially when they can change the rules any time they want. I myself fell victim of it. I wanted to help my mom out and I repeatedly accepted giving up living my own life to do what I thought was the right thing.

What are the benefits your clients experience?

• A total life change. In a way it feels like a miracle. Like there is no way it could have changed and then it does. There are points in the process where the client is going to have to take the heat. It takes either being completely fed up with unliveable conditions or a strong will to commit to enforcing new rules for your family members to abide by.

Do you have a success story you can share? And what were the benefits the client received?

• In addition to my own story I was able to help a woman who was so completely under the impression that she could never say no to her mother that she gave up everything she wanted in life to make her mother happy. After my coaching she was able to stand up for her needs for the first time in her life and start living her own life. Her mother came to accept the new terms of their relationship and had no choice but to relinquish her 100% domination of her daughter.

What do you love about being a coach? What do you get out of it?

• Freeing a person from a prison. That’s what it feels like I know. There’s nothing else like that feeling.