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What is Life Coaching?

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What is Life Coaching?

“People do not have to become something they are not. They need to learn only who and what they really are.”
                                     Eknath Easwaran

“Go to the people, live with them, love them, learn from them, work with them, start from what they have, build on what they know, and in the end, when the work is done, the people will rejoice and say: We have done it ourselves.”
                                                         Lao Tzu

Life Coaching is a relatively new hybrid helping profession that focuses on client-centered personal empowerment. The Life Coach is not a consultant nor therapist, friend nor clergy, parent nor police. Life Coaching assists clients in recognizing their dreams and putting into action the steps that will take them on their journey of success.
The exquisite Life Coach will remember the Truth of who you are, even when you forget and happily will remind you of your brilliance as many times as you need to be reminded.

“There is pain in change and there is pain in staying the same.
Pick the one that moves you forward."

Motto of The Nob Hill Wellness Center

“Kris has been an inspiration to me in that her approach to life has always been to not take things too seriously. She has the most honest and sincere eyes that I have ever looked into and felt comforted by. She has the ability to make light of things when they seem heavy and overwhelming. She is great at being persistent about self-work and she’s willing to take the extra step to assist people in their journey.”
                                                                                              Edith

My commitment to you...

As your Life Coach, I am committed to you – your dreams, your healing, your path that is calling you to become on the outside the greatness that is already you on the inside.

As your Life Coach, I begin our relationship with the assumption that you are a good person, with a good heart, and with right intention. You are someone who only wants to love and be loved. Most importantly, I want you to know that I believe that there is nothing wrong with you and that you are fine just the way you are.

As your Life Coach, I will listen to you. I will listen – slowly and carefully to you. I will listen for your magnificence. And I will believe you. My intention is to coach to the soul, not to the symptoms and certainly not to the “diagnosis.”

As your Life Coach, I don’t want you to reflect on our session later and say, “Wow, my Life Coach is brilliant!” I want you to reflect on our session later and say, “Wow, I am brilliant!”

As your Life Coach, I will spend time every day thinking about you. I will hold you in my consciousness with loving intention, inviting insight as to how my gifts may be used for your highest good.

As your Life Coach, my goal for you is threefold: to be awake, to be free, and to be alive.

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Kris’ Philosophy of Life Coaching

As I reflect on what I believe today about why we are the way we are, I am reminded of a paper that I wrote in graduate school. All graduate students in Counseling Psychology take a class called Theories of Counseling. It covers all the major recognized theoretical orientations toward psychotherapy. The standard assignment that is due at the end of this course is to write one’s own theory of counseling. Twenty-five years later, I don’t think my paper would be much different; it would just be longer. I’ve learned that we are much more than our childhood traumas, unconscious conflicts, dysfunctional parenting influences, genetic make-up, behavioral reinforcement, or cognitive distortions.

Today, I have respect for all of these influences, and I choose to approach my work with clients from a more positive framework, and less from what is called the Medical Model. Therapists refer to the patient’s “presenting problem” which leads to a “diagnosis” and then the “treatment plan” is formulated. All of this is fine and good for the “patient” who truly needs psychotherapy. I did it for years and will always be grateful for the honor and privilege it was to be someone’s therapist – to help people with deep family-of-origin issues in order to arrive at a more functional level of living.

Now, in my own evolving, I find that what seems to be “right” for me, is to work with people who are already at this functional level and who want to move even further along their path to joy, freedom, abundance and love. I can recognize people who need psychotherapy and will gladly refer them to colleagues for this essential foundational work. And, I will welcome them back with open arms if they choose to work with me at the next level.

I also recognized that I was spending a lot of time in therapy sessions essentially explaining and teaching clients about family systems theory, defense mechanisms, learned patterns, the importance of spirituality, the role and power of the unconscious, codependency, etc… These monologues often came to a close with a resounding motivational pep talk of sorts. I remember one time finishing a session with a client at the door with the joyous exhortation, “Now, go out there and make me proud!” We laughed ourselves silly. So, I took this as a message from my Higher Self and decided to bring my professional identity and focus in alignment with what my behavior and passionate feelings were telling me.

So now I am a Life Coach. I love doing workshop presentations, motivational speaking, teaching Psychology at the community college, and working one-on-one with clients, incorporating the mysteries of Energy Psychology. As an Energy Practitioner, I have to confess, the rapid results of this approach still astound me. When I was first learning EFT, I practiced on whoever was willing to give it a try. I’m not kidding (see, I’m still amazed!), we got practically instant relief for knee pain, sinus headache, hives, test anxiety, back pain, stomach upset, phobias, and even traumatic war memories. And remember, I’m an academic type with a Ph.D. background, which means I was taught to worship at the altar of the scientific method and judge as folly any “unproven” methodology. Well, I am wise enough now to know “results is results.” Thank goodness the first Stone Age person who discovered fire didn’t abandon the practice just because the exact cause, theory, mechanism, and outcome couldn’t be controlled nor quantified.

“I’d like to share an experience I had with Kris and the EFT technique she used with me. I had very painful stomach cramps that could not be attributed to anything at the time. Kris offered to try EFT with me, and I gladly accepted. She demonstrated the meridian points to work on, and had me repeat the affirmations that went along with them. We worked together for about ten minutes, after which I amazingly felt my stomach pain disappear. I really feel that the EFT worked to ease my stomach pain like nothing else could and I was very grateful to Kris for offering to try this with me.”
                                                                                             Holly

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What clients are saying about Energy Psychology techniques:*

“I can’t imagine where I would be without energy therapy. When I was in the blackest moment of my life, these energy therapies opened whole new doorways to freedom that I could never have had otherwise. They literally saved my life.”
L.B., Oregon

“Thank you, thank you, thank you! I can’t tell you what a difference the “tapping” has made!”

R.R., Michigan

*Testimonials taken from ACEP information pamphlet.

If you think we might be a good match to work together, please let me know by clicking here. I have been praying for exactly your arrival and will be happy to chat on the phone for a free 15 minute “getting to know you” connection. At that time we can discuss which option below might be best for you and make an appointment at that time.

Fee Schedule:

30 minute phone or office session: $60. Make a payment below

50 minute phone or office session: $90. Make a payment below

DayQuest Half-Day Intensive: $520. Make a payment below

DayQuest© is a custom-designed, pre-planned one-on-one session that provides the time and space for a very comprehensive process to evolve without the usual constraints of “scheduled readiness.” It is a significant investment of time and energy for both of us, and can lead to tremendous breakthroughs in areas that have been stuck for just too long.

Kristin L. Roush, Ph.D.
The Nob Hill Wellness Center
122 Bryn Mawr, SE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
E-Mail: NobHillWellnessCenter@gmail.com
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Important note: "While EFT and other Energy Psychology techniques that Dr. Roush uses have produced remarkable clinical results, they must still be considered to be in the experimental stage and thus practitioners and the public must take complete responsibility for their use of them. Further, Dr. Roush is not a licensed health practitioner and offers EFT and other Energy Psychology methodologies as a Life Coach."

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