Client Success Stories
People come to coaching and/or counselling for any number of reasons. By far is relationship problems. To give you a feel for how some typical coaching relationships work and benefit the client, I have summarized a few examples.
These are real stories, altered in name only to respect the privacy of the client.
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This website has so many helpful pages of information on many topics, please browse around. You are bound to learn something or just work with us! You will never look back!
Client Story 1
More satisfaction in his relationship, his career and life.
Richard is an engineer, an energetic 40 year old, who had lost the meaning in his life, which reflected itself in his work and his relationship. He felt that he was in a rut and just running on the treadmill. He thought that the problem was his relationship, but on reflection he found out that it was his life in general and that also carried over into his relationship. He wanted to feel passionate about what he did. He came to coaching to better identify what was going on in his life and find out why he was feeling this way. He wanted to find a better way, hone in on his strengths, understand his weaknesses, overcome them and develop a greater sense of direction and purpose in his career and personal life.
When we started coaching, he was working for a middle-sized company that didn't appreciate him. Richard was working long hours and going well out of his way to keep this business moving ahead. He felt responsible for the company and the office and he was carrying the load of them. Management was incompetent and infighting was a common occurrence. Through his heroic efforts the sales office was making progress, yet he was not getting the recognition or rewards he deserved. His level of satisfaction with his life was low and at a deeper level, he was beginning to sense that this was not the job for him.
In our coaching work we were able to identify the most important areas of his life, the things that made him come more fully alive. What Richard really loved was to build and create and make a difference. He also had a strong independent streak and really valued his freedom. He was a people person and an enthusiastic leader, with high integrity. When he cared about a project he could throw himself into it with incredible enthusiasm.
Recognizing that in his current position he was not enjoying the freedom, creativity and balance he needed to feel happy and not really feel that he was making a difference in his job, Richard began a process to find and develop a plan to transition into more satisfying work.
It took a few months to get everything lined up and to make the move. The weekly coaching calls helped to keep him focused and moving past the various obstacles that held him in the position at his current work and concerns he faced. Soon Richard found himself in a position he had helped create with some friends, to start a build company building residential homes. He found that his people skills worked well for him and his creativity and leadership was put to better use. He was also able to organize his life to fit in more regular exercise and leisure time with his friends and family. His stress level went down. His relationship with his partner improved together with his own level of fun and fulfillment.
Even though our regular coaching work ended some time ago, I still keep in touch with Richard. He is moving strongly ahead with his life and career, he has some great new relationships and has managed to fit in some pretty amazing vacations. He still has regular challenges in his life and every now and again comes back for what I call a maintenance session to address another aspect of his life. He has grown fast and with a clear sense of who he is and what makes him happy, he is able to make great decisions that keep him on track to where he is going.
Richard’s comments on his coaching: "The work that we did helped me look at my life differently, I overcame many of my so called belief systems, confronted them and found that they were holding me back from achieving my full potential and fun in life. It made me find out what really mattered. You were with me as I made some of the best changes in my life. Thanks Peter, I now know who I am and where I am going. Thank you for the opportunity and for you being available to resolve further issues as they come up. Life is just wonderful! My wife thinks that she has a new husband."
Client Story 2
I feel burned out, yet I want to grow this business … and have a life. Is this possible?
Paul was the typical independent professional. He had worked long and hard to build up a professional practice as a financial advisor. His practice paid the bills nicely. He had reached the stage that he felt that he could not anymore. He was getting sick regularly and it was taking longer each time for him to recover. He has had his practice for 12 years. While his business was stable, he had lost any sense of accomplishment and he was having a hard time finding the satisfaction he once enjoyed. Paul had hit a plateau and he was having a hard time breaking through.
The focus of our work was to find the areas of his job he really enjoyed doing, as well as those areas that contributed the most to his success. Through our work, Paul found that he really liked working with his clients and when he spent more time with his clients, his practice grew. But he was bogged down by the administration and frankly he did not like admin work. So we worked to find ways to help him delegate more of the administrative work and found the structure to help him get out seeing his clients more.
Looking at his strengths and weaknesses, Paul discovered that while he was very strong technically, he would benefit from developing even stronger people skills. We then had to find out why he was holding on to the admin work that he hated so much. We then uncovered this and resolved the underlying issues. We also spent some time developing better listening, communication, trust building and empathy skills, which helped in his business and private life.
We also spent some time getting Paul back in better physical condition and established better balance in his life. We got him to work out how much extra business he would have to generate to pay someone else to assist him and compared that, to his current workload and his typical day. We found that he could maintain his working hours with focus on what he could do best, what he loved and that made the most money for him and by doing so, he can pay for the additional help and have more satisfaction and enjoyment in his life. He also found that he could now take time out for himself when he wanted to.
Within a very short period of time his business had already grown sufficiently to accommodate his extra expense and his stress was much lower. Paul was more fully engaged in his work again and he loved it. He did not feel the burnout any more. In fact, he found that his success rate was now so high that he did not have to work so hard and could work fewer hours while still making what he needed. He also felt like he was in better control of his life and was enjoying spending less time at work and more time with his family, going to his kids sport functions and even playing a round of golf.
About our coaching work, Paul commented: We all should have life coaches at an early age so that we can understand how much better life can be!
Client Story 3
Leadership and soft skills and overcoming a disease at the same time.
Mary is a successful senior executive programmer for a well-known auditing firm. She had enjoyed steady advancement through the firms ranks, based largely on her technical ability. She desperately wanted a senior management position. She had Diabetes and it was often told to her that the senior management position and the stress would be too much for her and that they did not want to consider her for the position. They also said that her co-workers found her distant and difficult to get along with and so exposing her to a senior management position and managing people would be very difficult for her. It might even make her illness worse.
She was desperate, yet she realized that she was always in conflict with people and that her technical abilities were not going to carry her all the way. She felt trapped and angry at life. She knew that she had to develop leadership and soft skills but had no idea where to start.
Mary came from the technical side of the business. With a sharp intellect and high self-confidence, she could quickly understand a situation, implement a solution and achieve the objective. However, as she moved up the management ladder, her confrontations becoming more pronounced and she found that these skills weren't enough to have the impact she wanted.
More and more, Mary found that she needed to build the skills associated with connecting with and getting extraordinary results out of people. A task that seemed impossible for her. The disease was also starting to have more impact on her life and she found that she was unable to keep up the many hours needed at times. Mary wanted to understand and master the nuances of leadership. She did not even think that diabetes could be healed or drastically pulled back.
Early in our coaching Mary came to see that her introverted "leave me alone and I will come up with a brilliant solution" approach, was doing little to empower her team and build a culture where she could leverage her skills. She also found that she could not trust easily and that relationships had always been disappointing and so she had delved solely into her work.
Through our coaching and counselling, Mary got to understand the emotional source of her diabetes and the impact it was having on her life, not only physically but also on her social and professional life. We initially worked with the focus of addressing and resolving the Diabetes problems. Once we had done that her sugar levels fell drastically and then we could focus on the interpersonal skills (coaching, empathy, trust building, etc.) to build far more productive and enjoyable relationships with the key members of her team, her family and her friends and in fact, she even made new friends.
Over a five month period, with her diabetes almost totally under control, together with her knowledge and practice of the competencies of leadership grew her to a stage where she was spending most of her time empowering and raising the development of her team. She also became more confident socially and was now achieving the recognition and acknowledgement she always secretly wanted.
The bottom line of our work was that Mary was offered more responsibilities and was soon offered a more senior position on condition that her health did not suffer. Mary was enjoying herself far more and her team was being recognized more regularly. She even developed a serious relationship, something she thought was totally impossible. Her circle of friends also continued to grow.
An exercise program and encouragement of engaging in outside of work activities, was done. Mary got involved in dancing and the theatre. She was able to significantly reduce her stress levels, which had a further positive impact on her diabetes, so much so that she could drop her medication down to very low levels. Mary also developed a habit of scheduling in "perspective" or “quiet time” to keep the big picture in focus. She found these two additions to her weekly routine, very rewarding.
About our coaching work, Mary said: "I am so glad that I was referred to you. Overcoming my diabetes and perspectives on the world, has changed my life. I found that our times together were sooo special - it was like visiting a special friend. Thank you for your wisdom and insight and Michael and I are both very happy. It was a life-changing event. Thank you again."
Client Story 4
I want to be a manager
Joanne now 33 had spent 15 years in the "rat race" and was feeling like she needed a big change. She was always content to be the worker and to live her life. She wanted fun in life. She found out that she did not quite make enough money in her life to achieve all that she wanted to do. She looked around and found that a management position would enable her to earn more but she did not have the management skills or understanding of what it all entailed. A friend had told her about coaching and after a quick tour of the Internet, she found our web site and gave me a call.
In our first complimentary conversation she asked many questions about management, what was involved, no one in her family had ever become a manager and she had no idea what was involved. She had not completed her commercial studies. I encouraged her to complete her studies and at the same time I would coach her about management. I asked her to think about it.
She did, and a few days later she called and told me she wanted to work with me. In our first few sessions she found out why it was that she felt that she could not complete her degree and what was holding her back. We worked on that for a few sessions and she got engrossed in her degree.
Within a month of our first session she had sampled a few schooling options, made her decision and completed her degree. Our sessions stretched out over many months due mostly to her studies taking up so much time. However, we worked on the management potential within her, getting her to realise what was all involved.
We were able to spend time looking at Joanne’s values, the important areas of her life that gave her the most satisfaction. From this she realized that she loved to work with people. She also realized that independence and flexibility was really important to her, as she wanted to do something more fulfilling for herself. Within two months of completing her degree she was sure she wanted something in travel. She found a management position at a travel agency. Soon she was approached by a travel company and found just the management position she was looking for.
Two years into her journey Joanne felt that she was ready to become a travel consultant and got involved in one of the travel shows on TV. She felt that now she could do what she wanted, use her management skills to direct the shows and manage all the logistics. She felt confident about her ability to function well in this environment and has not looked back since. I get to see Joanne every now and again just to catch up and perhaps resolve some other issue that she wants to work on within herself. I always keep the door open for my clients like this.
Of our coaching work she said: "Peter it took someone who believed in me to encourage me to find myself and what I was capable of. Years later I am still reaping the benefit of what we have done together. Thank you for your belief in me and your support. It was invaluable. The things that you taught me were not just for the job, but also about life. A big thank you. I love the freedom, joy, meaning and being me has brought into my life."
Client Story 5
Entrepreneurial Start Up
John had worked for a plumbing company for 4 years, long enough to know he did not want to have a job working for anyone but himself.
In his spare time he had been working on a new business idea that he was getting more and more excited about. After a few months of thinking it through and bouncing the idea off some of his friends, he contacted me. His goal was to find out if this idea really had potential and if it did, to figure out how to make it a reality.
Over the first month we carefully evaluated the market, looking closely at his potential client base, their needs and the potential competitors. John also built a few prototypes of his system and experimented with them and spent some time getting first-hand feedback from some of his clients. With a better idea of what his clients wanted and how to best market to them, he refined his design and business plan to a stage where he was ready to raise some start-up capital.
It took a few months of work in the evenings to get his pitch together and close his first funding with some investors close to his family. However, with the money committed John was free to quit his day job and begin to work full time on his own company doing solar heating.
With some money in the bank, John was able to bring on two other employees to help him launch his first marketing campaign to the local municipality in their drive to cut back on electricity usage and harness the free power of the sun. John was a great innovator and he really benefited from having support to implement and maintain his ideas.
Even though his product was working well it did not quiet appeal in looks. John refined that even more and each job that he did he made sure that the job was right and suddenly he found that word of mouth was doing all the marketing for him. This initial success helped them refine their overall marketing plan and initiate an Internet outlet for his product.
Within 6 months of our first call, John was well on his way to building a very successful business, which he intends to take national over the next two years.
I still work with John, and he has told me: "I cannot believe this is all happening for me. I can't believe how far we have come. And I know I simply would not have done this without your support and encouragement. You helped me see that this was possible. You guided me through the planning. You helped me get it financed and to take the plunge. I cannot thank you enough. "
Client Story 6
A Story from a Diabetic Consultant
Diabetic - Lesley Brisland
Dear Peter,
Mid 2017 when I first consulted with you, I was in a very bad state. My fasting blood sugars were around 13, my HBA1c 12+ and I was very worried about the effect this would have on my kidneys and eyes.
In addition I was very stressed out at work: finding it difficult to handle my irrational boss and obstructive colleagues.
Early this year I had my usual check-up. My blood pressure was down to 120/80 from 140/90 and is still dropping. My cholesterol levels are such that I do not have to take the statins any more. I had managed to reduce my insulin needs by about a quarter. The HBA1c had dropped considerable: still too high, but I am sure it will drop further. And my weight is down - I am a good size smaller.
On the work front, the stress has reduced because I now have a new boss I am very happy with. I am able to cope with the obstructive colleagues: in fact, I am being supported in my conflicts with them as I am handling them so much better and not putting myself in the wrong.
I am still amazed at how quickly the underlying issues were identified and how quickly I learnt the coping skills that have resulted in the improvement of both my physical and mental health.
I am so glad that I was persuaded to come to you.
Lesley Brisland
Other short Personal Life Coaching Comments
Client Story 7 - Sexual Abuse
Peter is an excellent Sexual Abuse Counselor. He holds the space beautifully with loads of compassion, care and support for the survivor! I could not have been held in a safer and more caring environment throughout my time of healing, and with Peter's assistance, I managed to turn my life around completely. and can manage a good relationship. Thank you for your guidance and assistance Peter! Linda F
Client Story 8
This website has so many helpful pages of information on many topics, please browse around. You are bound to learn something or just work with us! You will never look back!
Client Story 1
More satisfaction in his relationship, his career and life.
Richard is an engineer, an energetic 40 year old, who had lost the meaning in his life, which reflected itself in his work and his relationship. He felt that he was in a rut and just running on the treadmill. He thought that the problem was his relationship, but on reflection he found out that it was his life in general and that also carried over into his relationship. He wanted to feel passionate about what he did. He came to coaching to better identify what was going on in his life and find out why he was feeling this way. He wanted to find a better way, hone in on his strengths, understand his weaknesses, overcome them and develop a greater sense of direction and purpose in his career and personal life.
When we started coaching, he was working for a middle-sized company that didn't appreciate him. Richard was working long hours and going well out of his way to keep this business moving ahead. He felt responsible for the company and the office and he was carrying the load of them. Management was incompetent and infighting was a common occurrence. Through his heroic efforts the sales office was making progress, yet he was not getting the recognition or rewards he deserved. His level of satisfaction with his life was low and at a deeper level, he was beginning to sense that this was not the job for him.
In our coaching work we were able to identify the most important areas of his life, the things that made him come more fully alive. What Richard really loved was to build and create and make a difference. He also had a strong independent streak and really valued his freedom. He was a people person and an enthusiastic leader, with high integrity. When he cared about a project he could throw himself into it with incredible enthusiasm.
Recognizing that in his current position he was not enjoying the freedom, creativity and balance he needed to feel happy and not really feel that he was making a difference in his job, Richard began a process to find and develop a plan to transition into more satisfying work.
It took a few months to get everything lined up and to make the move. The weekly coaching calls helped to keep him focused and moving past the various obstacles that held him in the position at his current work and concerns he faced. Soon Richard found himself in a position he had helped create with some friends, to start a build company building residential homes. He found that his people skills worked well for him and his creativity and leadership was put to better use. He was also able to organize his life to fit in more regular exercise and leisure time with his friends and family. His stress level went down. His relationship with his partner improved together with his own level of fun and fulfillment.
Even though our regular coaching work ended some time ago, I still keep in touch with Richard. He is moving strongly ahead with his life and career, he has some great new relationships and has managed to fit in some pretty amazing vacations. He still has regular challenges in his life and every now and again comes back for what I call a maintenance session to address another aspect of his life. He has grown fast and with a clear sense of who he is and what makes him happy, he is able to make great decisions that keep him on track to where he is going.
Richard’s comments on his coaching: "The work that we did helped me look at my life differently, I overcame many of my so called belief systems, confronted them and found that they were holding me back from achieving my full potential and fun in life. It made me find out what really mattered. You were with me as I made some of the best changes in my life. Thanks Peter, I now know who I am and where I am going. Thank you for the opportunity and for you being available to resolve further issues as they come up. Life is just wonderful! My wife thinks that she has a new husband."
Client Story 2
I feel burned out, yet I want to grow this business … and have a life. Is this possible?
Paul was the typical independent professional. He had worked long and hard to build up a professional practice as a financial advisor. His practice paid the bills nicely. He had reached the stage that he felt that he could not anymore. He was getting sick regularly and it was taking longer each time for him to recover. He has had his practice for 12 years. While his business was stable, he had lost any sense of accomplishment and he was having a hard time finding the satisfaction he once enjoyed. Paul had hit a plateau and he was having a hard time breaking through.
The focus of our work was to find the areas of his job he really enjoyed doing, as well as those areas that contributed the most to his success. Through our work, Paul found that he really liked working with his clients and when he spent more time with his clients, his practice grew. But he was bogged down by the administration and frankly he did not like admin work. So we worked to find ways to help him delegate more of the administrative work and found the structure to help him get out seeing his clients more.
Looking at his strengths and weaknesses, Paul discovered that while he was very strong technically, he would benefit from developing even stronger people skills. We then had to find out why he was holding on to the admin work that he hated so much. We then uncovered this and resolved the underlying issues. We also spent some time developing better listening, communication, trust building and empathy skills, which helped in his business and private life.
We also spent some time getting Paul back in better physical condition and established better balance in his life. We got him to work out how much extra business he would have to generate to pay someone else to assist him and compared that, to his current workload and his typical day. We found that he could maintain his working hours with focus on what he could do best, what he loved and that made the most money for him and by doing so, he can pay for the additional help and have more satisfaction and enjoyment in his life. He also found that he could now take time out for himself when he wanted to.
Within a very short period of time his business had already grown sufficiently to accommodate his extra expense and his stress was much lower. Paul was more fully engaged in his work again and he loved it. He did not feel the burnout any more. In fact, he found that his success rate was now so high that he did not have to work so hard and could work fewer hours while still making what he needed. He also felt like he was in better control of his life and was enjoying spending less time at work and more time with his family, going to his kids sport functions and even playing a round of golf.
About our coaching work, Paul commented: We all should have life coaches at an early age so that we can understand how much better life can be!
Client Story 3
Leadership and soft skills and overcoming a disease at the same time.
Mary is a successful senior executive programmer for a well-known auditing firm. She had enjoyed steady advancement through the firms ranks, based largely on her technical ability. She desperately wanted a senior management position. She had Diabetes and it was often told to her that the senior management position and the stress would be too much for her and that they did not want to consider her for the position. They also said that her co-workers found her distant and difficult to get along with and so exposing her to a senior management position and managing people would be very difficult for her. It might even make her illness worse.
She was desperate, yet she realized that she was always in conflict with people and that her technical abilities were not going to carry her all the way. She felt trapped and angry at life. She knew that she had to develop leadership and soft skills but had no idea where to start.
Mary came from the technical side of the business. With a sharp intellect and high self-confidence, she could quickly understand a situation, implement a solution and achieve the objective. However, as she moved up the management ladder, her confrontations becoming more pronounced and she found that these skills weren't enough to have the impact she wanted.
More and more, Mary found that she needed to build the skills associated with connecting with and getting extraordinary results out of people. A task that seemed impossible for her. The disease was also starting to have more impact on her life and she found that she was unable to keep up the many hours needed at times. Mary wanted to understand and master the nuances of leadership. She did not even think that diabetes could be healed or drastically pulled back.
Early in our coaching Mary came to see that her introverted "leave me alone and I will come up with a brilliant solution" approach, was doing little to empower her team and build a culture where she could leverage her skills. She also found that she could not trust easily and that relationships had always been disappointing and so she had delved solely into her work.
Through our coaching and counselling, Mary got to understand the emotional source of her diabetes and the impact it was having on her life, not only physically but also on her social and professional life. We initially worked with the focus of addressing and resolving the Diabetes problems. Once we had done that her sugar levels fell drastically and then we could focus on the interpersonal skills (coaching, empathy, trust building, etc.) to build far more productive and enjoyable relationships with the key members of her team, her family and her friends and in fact, she even made new friends.
Over a five month period, with her diabetes almost totally under control, together with her knowledge and practice of the competencies of leadership grew her to a stage where she was spending most of her time empowering and raising the development of her team. She also became more confident socially and was now achieving the recognition and acknowledgement she always secretly wanted.
The bottom line of our work was that Mary was offered more responsibilities and was soon offered a more senior position on condition that her health did not suffer. Mary was enjoying herself far more and her team was being recognized more regularly. She even developed a serious relationship, something she thought was totally impossible. Her circle of friends also continued to grow.
An exercise program and encouragement of engaging in outside of work activities, was done. Mary got involved in dancing and the theatre. She was able to significantly reduce her stress levels, which had a further positive impact on her diabetes, so much so that she could drop her medication down to very low levels. Mary also developed a habit of scheduling in "perspective" or “quiet time” to keep the big picture in focus. She found these two additions to her weekly routine, very rewarding.
About our coaching work, Mary said: "I am so glad that I was referred to you. Overcoming my diabetes and perspectives on the world, has changed my life. I found that our times together were sooo special - it was like visiting a special friend. Thank you for your wisdom and insight and Michael and I are both very happy. It was a life-changing event. Thank you again."
Client Story 4
I want to be a manager
Joanne now 33 had spent 15 years in the "rat race" and was feeling like she needed a big change. She was always content to be the worker and to live her life. She wanted fun in life. She found out that she did not quite make enough money in her life to achieve all that she wanted to do. She looked around and found that a management position would enable her to earn more but she did not have the management skills or understanding of what it all entailed. A friend had told her about coaching and after a quick tour of the Internet, she found our web site and gave me a call.
In our first complimentary conversation she asked many questions about management, what was involved, no one in her family had ever become a manager and she had no idea what was involved. She had not completed her commercial studies. I encouraged her to complete her studies and at the same time I would coach her about management. I asked her to think about it.
She did, and a few days later she called and told me she wanted to work with me. In our first few sessions she found out why it was that she felt that she could not complete her degree and what was holding her back. We worked on that for a few sessions and she got engrossed in her degree.
Within a month of our first session she had sampled a few schooling options, made her decision and completed her degree. Our sessions stretched out over many months due mostly to her studies taking up so much time. However, we worked on the management potential within her, getting her to realise what was all involved.
We were able to spend time looking at Joanne’s values, the important areas of her life that gave her the most satisfaction. From this she realized that she loved to work with people. She also realized that independence and flexibility was really important to her, as she wanted to do something more fulfilling for herself. Within two months of completing her degree she was sure she wanted something in travel. She found a management position at a travel agency. Soon she was approached by a travel company and found just the management position she was looking for.
Two years into her journey Joanne felt that she was ready to become a travel consultant and got involved in one of the travel shows on TV. She felt that now she could do what she wanted, use her management skills to direct the shows and manage all the logistics. She felt confident about her ability to function well in this environment and has not looked back since. I get to see Joanne every now and again just to catch up and perhaps resolve some other issue that she wants to work on within herself. I always keep the door open for my clients like this.
Of our coaching work she said: "Peter it took someone who believed in me to encourage me to find myself and what I was capable of. Years later I am still reaping the benefit of what we have done together. Thank you for your belief in me and your support. It was invaluable. The things that you taught me were not just for the job, but also about life. A big thank you. I love the freedom, joy, meaning and being me has brought into my life."
Client Story 5
Entrepreneurial Start Up
John had worked for a plumbing company for 4 years, long enough to know he did not want to have a job working for anyone but himself.
In his spare time he had been working on a new business idea that he was getting more and more excited about. After a few months of thinking it through and bouncing the idea off some of his friends, he contacted me. His goal was to find out if this idea really had potential and if it did, to figure out how to make it a reality.
Over the first month we carefully evaluated the market, looking closely at his potential client base, their needs and the potential competitors. John also built a few prototypes of his system and experimented with them and spent some time getting first-hand feedback from some of his clients. With a better idea of what his clients wanted and how to best market to them, he refined his design and business plan to a stage where he was ready to raise some start-up capital.
It took a few months of work in the evenings to get his pitch together and close his first funding with some investors close to his family. However, with the money committed John was free to quit his day job and begin to work full time on his own company doing solar heating.
With some money in the bank, John was able to bring on two other employees to help him launch his first marketing campaign to the local municipality in their drive to cut back on electricity usage and harness the free power of the sun. John was a great innovator and he really benefited from having support to implement and maintain his ideas.
Even though his product was working well it did not quiet appeal in looks. John refined that even more and each job that he did he made sure that the job was right and suddenly he found that word of mouth was doing all the marketing for him. This initial success helped them refine their overall marketing plan and initiate an Internet outlet for his product.
Within 6 months of our first call, John was well on his way to building a very successful business, which he intends to take national over the next two years.
I still work with John, and he has told me: "I cannot believe this is all happening for me. I can't believe how far we have come. And I know I simply would not have done this without your support and encouragement. You helped me see that this was possible. You guided me through the planning. You helped me get it financed and to take the plunge. I cannot thank you enough. "
Client Story 6
A Story from a Diabetic Consultant
Diabetic - Lesley Brisland
Dear Peter,
Mid 2017 when I first consulted with you, I was in a very bad state. My fasting blood sugars were around 13, my HBA1c 12+ and I was very worried about the effect this would have on my kidneys and eyes.
In addition I was very stressed out at work: finding it difficult to handle my irrational boss and obstructive colleagues.
Early this year I had my usual check-up. My blood pressure was down to 120/80 from 140/90 and is still dropping. My cholesterol levels are such that I do not have to take the statins any more. I had managed to reduce my insulin needs by about a quarter. The HBA1c had dropped considerable: still too high, but I am sure it will drop further. And my weight is down - I am a good size smaller.
On the work front, the stress has reduced because I now have a new boss I am very happy with. I am able to cope with the obstructive colleagues: in fact, I am being supported in my conflicts with them as I am handling them so much better and not putting myself in the wrong.
I am still amazed at how quickly the underlying issues were identified and how quickly I learnt the coping skills that have resulted in the improvement of both my physical and mental health.
I am so glad that I was persuaded to come to you.
Lesley Brisland
Other short Personal Life Coaching Comments
- I am so pleased that I got referred to you. You have probably saved my life. Daleen Johannesburg
- Wow It is so different to be free ….. I had no idea how stuck I was. Gail Johannesburg
- That was so powerful and insightful ….. I feel a lot lighter. Carol Johannesburg
- So that’s what it means to be present and to be here …. To enjoy life. Gee, I have wasted my time up to now. Michelle England.
- Thank you for the direction and insights. It feels great to have someone who can be objective and sensible at the same time. Thank you Steve Benoni
- Thank you for getting my life back together again. My childhood rape really did mess things up. Dirk Brakpan
- You know I have been all over to many specialists and no one could help me. You did and so quickly, that is amazing! I feel so much better and my life is back on track again. Marlene Johannesburg.
- My child is so much better and coping so much better at home. I can’t wait to see the impact of this at school next year. She is more settled and present. I am sure that the ADD label on her will go now. Mary-Anne Johannesburg
- I can’t believe it my sugar has dropped down from 24 to 8 in two months and stayed there. It has been in steady decline since our sessions. Thank you, Lesley Johannesburg
- I had no Idea that my molestation had such a huge impact on my life. Thank you for helping me to clear it all up and I feel so much cleaner now. And oh yes! To be present in my body feels like a huge present to me. Blessings to you, may you help many more …… Cheryl Johannesburg.
Client Story 7 - Sexual Abuse
Peter is an excellent Sexual Abuse Counselor. He holds the space beautifully with loads of compassion, care and support for the survivor! I could not have been held in a safer and more caring environment throughout my time of healing, and with Peter's assistance, I managed to turn my life around completely. and can manage a good relationship. Thank you for your guidance and assistance Peter! Linda F
Client Story 8
