Dream Body Coaching FAQs
- What should I do to prepare for my first session? - Identify an area of your life where a positive change(s) would make a significant difference in your life....health, relationships, money, job/career, etc. Then, just prior to your session, take a few minutes to sit calmly and breathe deeply.
- What happens during a coaching session? - Lorie will ask you what area of your life you would like to work on during your session. Lorie will then work with you to identify what is blocking you from having the changes you would like to see. Examples of these blocks could be core beliefs or patterns you've created based on your life experiences, generational beliefs or patterns passed through your family line, or energy that isn't yours. She will then guide you through powerful, yet simple to learn exercises to help release the thought patterns and beliefs creating the block. Finally, Lorie will identify at least one action you can take to integrate the work you did during the session and create positive behavior patterns to replace the old subconscious core belief.
- Will we only work on body issues during coaching sessions? - Lorie is passionate about helping you love your body, own your beauty, and live your FULL life, whatever that means for you. Your coaching sessions will focus on what matters most to you and where you want to see changes. For instance, you may want to improve your relationship with money, start a new career, or feel more joy in your life. What's really fun, is that you can't make positive changes in one area of your life without also affecting other areas as well. After all, you are a whole person. Thus, you may be working on your relationship with money and notice that your sense of self-worth and appreciation for your body are also improving. When you work with subconscious patterns and beliefs, the return on your investment is manifold!
- Do you take credit cards? - Yes. Prior to your session you will receive an invoice. You can pay the invoice via credit or debit card.
- What are subconscious blocks? - Essentially they are "disruptions in the body's energy system" (Gary Craig) caused by negative emotions or thought patterns that you have thought over and over until they become a subconscious belief. Think about it this way. If you were to build a dam in a river, you would be disrupting the rivers ability to flow downstream. A similar process happens in your body when negative emotions are not processed and released. Emotions carry an energetic charge. Negative emotions held onto block, or dam up if you will, the free-flow of energy moving through your body.
- What is transformational life coaching? - There are various forms of life coaching. Lorie is trained in and uses energy coaching as the basis for her work. Before we can talk about energy coaching, we need to talk about energy for a moment. Quite literally, everything is made up of energy, the chair you're sitting on, the computer you are using to read this website, the floor under your feet, your body, your thoughts and emotions, everything. And everything carries an energetic vibrational charge. Your thoughts and emotions act like a magnet and attract people and experiences into your life that match the energetic vibration they are putting out. It's like a radio station. When you are tuned into a particular station, you expect to get the music that that station plays. What's fabulous about this, is that by simply changing the energetic vibrations you are sending out, you can change your life. What's not so fun, is when you aren't aware of the subconscious energetic vibrations playing out and you find yourself stuck, not making the progress you want to make, or repeating over and over again the same destructive patterns. This is where energy coaching comes in. Energy coaching focuses on the negative vibrations you are playing, your thoughts and beliefs, that are getting in your way and helps you transform them. Energy coaching is not talk therapy. Granted, talk therapy has its place, however, when it comes to releasing unconscious patterns that are sabotaging your efforts, I haven't found anything more powerful than energy coaching. Energy coaching is transformational life coaching in that it gets to the root of the challenge you are experiencing and helps you remove it, thereby transforming your life in beautiful and positive ways. Finally, transformational life coaching focuses on the whole person--mind, body, and spirit.
- Do I have to relive all the details of traumatic experiences from my past to release them? - No, you can release negative emotions or beliefs without having to relive or discuss all of the details that created them. We will only talk about as much of the experience as we need to help idenftify the emotions and beliefs that need healing. We will focus on what you are still presently thinking and feeling about experirences from your past so we can help you move beyond them.
- As my coach, are you healing me? - No, God* is the healer. Working in conjunction with God, your body knows how to heal itself. As your coach, it's my job to create a space where healing can happen and where you receive the support, accountability, guidance, love, encouragement, and information you need...and when helpful, a loving kick in the butt. *(You may have a different term such as Universe, Spirit, Divine Healer, etc. Whatever term you choose is up to you.)
- What role do symptoms play in healing? - Christiane Northrup, M.D. said it best, "The symptoms in the body are often the only way that our soul can get our attention. Covering up our symptoms with external 'cures" prevents us from healing the parts of our lives that need attention and change" (Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom, p. 45). Coaching looks beyond the symptoms to the root cause of the issue.
- Do you only work with women? - No! Lorie enjoys helping her male clients gain a greater sense of self-empowerment, self-worth, and clarity and direction for their lives. She loves watching them breakthrough the limiting behaviors and beliefs that have held them back from achieving their dreams.