From an endless schedule of travel to finding the gift of time.
She arrived for coaching feeling completely overwhelmed by her diary and her travel schedule. She was a director at a well-known education body, and she thought the answer was more discipline: push harder, manage her time better, get more done in the gaps. But she already had the willpower to succeed in her job. The real issue was what she reached for the moment she had a spare ten minutes: her phone. So this is where we started.
First she bought an alarm clock and moved her phone out of the bedroom and into the kitchen, plugging it in each night after letting the dog out (a small, fixed prompt she already had built into her evening).
She underestimated how strong the cravings would be. For about a week, the pull to check her phone was intense. Then it simply dissipated.
What she got back in its place surprised her. She used to love reading novels, immersing herself in stories. That habit had quietly disappeared somewhere along the way and been replaced by work. The reading returned almost immediately. Her sleep improved too, noticeably, despite the onset of perimenopause working against her.
As she put it: “I've been given the gift of time.”
She had come to coaching expecting to fix a habit. She left with something broader: a deeper sense of self-knowing than she'd anticipated, and tools she can keep applying on her own, long after coaching ends.
“I have found coaching with Rebecca to be incredibly fun, enlightening, and full of learning. I enthusiastically recommend Rebecca, and would definitely work with her again in the future.”
