MY JOURNEY TO BECOMING A LIFE COACH
The social sciences have always fascinated me. I remember being a child and stressing out over our perception of color. I would say things like, "who decided that the color blue should be called blue? And how do we know we're looking at the same color? What if what I see as purple is not actually purple but instead what everyone else sees as red?"
It wasn't until I became a teenager that I realized that everything is made up . . .
And then I started becoming hyper aware of my thoughts.
I don't know how common that is but I often found it odd that the people around me didn't do the same.
Because of this I was very aware of how unhappy I was.
Besides the awareness I had of my mental state, my interest in how the mind works naturally influenced me into wanting to become a clinical psychologist.
I took AP psychology my junior of high school (11th grade) and I instantly knew this was the path for me.
Later, I got accepted to the university I wanted to go to and I studied psychology like I had planned.
Being a psychology student in and of itself was a blessing. I learned so much and in so many way it helped me better understand myself. I'm not kidding when I say I walked out of many of my psychology classes feeling like I just had therapy.
I felt like I was healing.
Then the summer before my final year of school I had my spiritual awakening.
I liked the idea of combining the metaphysical with science but that seemed to put off some of my professors. Not that I ever spoke to them about my beliefs. They just made comments every now and then during lectures about "pseudoscience" and it was made clear that they didn't believe in any of it.
Although my new perspective wasn't wildly accepted in the psychology community I felt like I could make it work. But after having an internship in a field I previously wanted to get into I started to reconsider.
When looking at the people that worked there I saw what my future would be like. And I didn't want that for myself.
Deciding that I no longer wanted to become a psychologist when I was in my last semester of school was stressful. But somehow right before I graduated I discovered life coaching and I just knew this was what I was going to do for the rest of my life.
I spent the following year researching certification programs, taking online courses on personal development and working on myself like never before.
I applied what resonated into my own life and over time I was able to notice how much my life had changed.
Once I enrolled into a life coaching certification program I studied for about a year before I got certified. I was also certified as a clinical hypnotherapist and TIME techniques practitioner. Since then I've also gotten certified as an inner voice facilitator. And I plan to continue to educate myself and incorporate what I learn into my coaching.
It wasn't until I became a teenager that I realized that everything is made up . . .
And then I started becoming hyper aware of my thoughts.
I don't know how common that is but I often found it odd that the people around me didn't do the same.
Because of this I was very aware of how unhappy I was.
Besides the awareness I had of my mental state, my interest in how the mind works naturally influenced me into wanting to become a clinical psychologist.
I took AP psychology my junior of high school (11th grade) and I instantly knew this was the path for me.
Later, I got accepted to the university I wanted to go to and I studied psychology like I had planned.
Being a psychology student in and of itself was a blessing. I learned so much and in so many way it helped me better understand myself. I'm not kidding when I say I walked out of many of my psychology classes feeling like I just had therapy.
I felt like I was healing.
Then the summer before my final year of school I had my spiritual awakening.
I liked the idea of combining the metaphysical with science but that seemed to put off some of my professors. Not that I ever spoke to them about my beliefs. They just made comments every now and then during lectures about "pseudoscience" and it was made clear that they didn't believe in any of it.
Although my new perspective wasn't wildly accepted in the psychology community I felt like I could make it work. But after having an internship in a field I previously wanted to get into I started to reconsider.
When looking at the people that worked there I saw what my future would be like. And I didn't want that for myself.
Deciding that I no longer wanted to become a psychologist when I was in my last semester of school was stressful. But somehow right before I graduated I discovered life coaching and I just knew this was what I was going to do for the rest of my life.
I spent the following year researching certification programs, taking online courses on personal development and working on myself like never before.
I applied what resonated into my own life and over time I was able to notice how much my life had changed.
Once I enrolled into a life coaching certification program I studied for about a year before I got certified. I was also certified as a clinical hypnotherapist and TIME techniques practitioner. Since then I've also gotten certified as an inner voice facilitator. And I plan to continue to educate myself and incorporate what I learn into my coaching.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelors Degree in Psychology
- Certified Life Coach
- Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist
- Certified TIME Techniques Practitioner
- Certified Inner Voice Facilitator