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Online Life
Coach
Help
Through Tough Times
An online life coach is just a
click away.
Perhaps your
relationship with your partner is not that
great at the moment.
You feel you need some help, but you don’t want to
go to marriage guidance counseling or relationship therapy.
Even
if you
did, you just don’t have the time. Maybe you can’t afford a
baby-sitter.
Whatever your situation, maybe someone suggested to you
that an
online life coach might be the answer.
Your first
thought is that going online for relationship help seems very
impersonal.
The importance of face-to-face communication can’t be underestimated.
Most of our feelings and reactions to a person are based on our initial
face-to-face meeting with them.
In fact, scientists say that when you
go for a job interview, your fate is decided in the first two minutes –
before you’ve even discussed the job or your qualifications!
There
are a number of benefits
to finding a professional online life coach or
online relationship
counseling:
- Is available online to you at least once a day.
You have to
make an appointment with a ‘realtime’ life coach.
- Can provide anonymity, discretion and
confidentiality.
- Thoughts and feelings are committed to black
and white.
- You have the
opportunity to think about what you REALLY think and feel before
committing (sending an e-mail).
- This means that much of your counseling
actually comes from within yourself as you re-consider your thoughts
and analyze what you have written.
- It is not quite so easy to ramble in an e-mail
as it is when you’re
having a chat with someone in an office.
- Your thought processes are saved and you can go
back to them and see
how you felt initially and what progress you are making.
- Your coach also has access to the communication
between the two of you
and can view this communication at any time to see the bigger picture.
- If you are having relationship therapy, you can
decide how and how much
your partner is involved.
- You can divide your time between personal
counseling and three-way relationship counseling.
- You can take your time responding to e-mail
from your internet life
coach.
- Life coaching need not be about major issues.
Sometimes one just needs
to have someone to chat with – kind of like an empathetic penpal.
- There are fewer physical constraints when you
go online, e.g.,
geography, time, traveling costs, making appointments.
There
are many web sites on the internet where relationship advice comes
free, but the personal touch gives us a good feeling.
Personal
communication relates directly to our relationship issues.
It’s a bit
like having your own relationship advice researcher, rather than doing
the searching and analyzing yourself. And it’s fun!
A
note of caution. Do not commit yourself to an online life coach, or
give out your credit card details, until you are sure they are able to
deliver the goods.
There are many unscrupulous people on the internet.
A good coach will be happy to share a few emails with you initially to
give them perspective on what you need and tell you how they operate.
For
additional
relationship
help
advice, such as the online
life coach section here, please visit the related
topics: relationship
therapy, relationship
counseling, troubled
relationship, marriage
help, relationship
coach, online relationship
advice and divorce
advice.
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