Starting my journey as a Life coach

Hello, my name is Emma and I have been helping people since I was a child. Honestly, I have always been that friend who listened to everyone else. That person who was always there for my friends and who tried to help them with whatever problems that they had.

That was me, and this is my journey to how I decided to become a Life Coach.

I am 30 years old (as of the writing of this blog post). And my journey started back in Catholic school.

And when I mean catholic school I do mean the whole 9 yards, uniforms, and church twice a week, the only thing we lacked was nuns. I was even an altar server. I loved that school and in that school, I was in the same class with the same group of kids. From Kindergarten up to 7th grade (8 years of my life), it was always the same group of kids. New kids would come into the class every year and others would leave, but it was always the same few, and we were very good friends.

Back then I would hang out with everyone and listen to them talk. I love listening to people tell their stories.

As I grew up, I found a love for helping, one of the reasons why I became an altar server in the first place. (And also because it was something that everyone wanted to do)

When I was 15 my parents moved away from that town and came to the city that I live in now. And it was a gigantic change for me. I did not take it well. I turned all my emotions inward, didn’t want to talk to anyone (due to this city also speaking a language that I didn’t understand), I didn’t want to listen, I didn’t want to be where I was. I fell into a depression that I would honestly not leave until I was in my mid 20s. When I was in college, and I met the person who no matter what he said, I always wanted to listen.

I got married not long after, and lived in a 5th floor apartment with no elevator.

Through many adult hardships and things I honestly never thought I would have to deal with, I was able to land the job that would start to bring change into my otherwise vision less life. I started working as an English teacher at a very prestigious English school. 

Why an English teacher? Because that is all I had ever been, all I knew how to do, all that my Resume said I was good for. But this job, broke me. I had no time for myself, I was always planning or always giving a class. I didn’t take care of myselfor enjoy the things I used to enjoy. I was only at that job for 4 months, but those 4 months destroyed my mental health so much that even after getting a different job as a receptionist, I was still not ok.

My mental health continued to deteriorate until I got to the point where those at work were noticing and I couldn’t hide it anymore. That is when I started going to Therapy, my therapist is perfect. He is able to help me where I had failed to help myself. He told me that the job I was at, was not something that I should be doing as it was draining me of my creative drive and not allowing me to live to my full potential. He asked me “what do you really want to be doing?” and I didn’t have an answer.

I honestly did not know what I wanted to do. So he asked me “what do you like doing?”

I liked drawing, I liked making people happy by creating what they wanted to see, I loved helping people become their best selves. And as it turns out, there is a job title for that.

A Life coach. The moment that I knew what it was called, and placed that title on myself, I felt so much better. The job I was at, wasn’t going to be my forever; it felt lighter, it didn’t make me mad. And all this, the very same day that I found out what I wanted to do for others.

I signed up for several courses on Udemy that would allow me to be a certified Life coach. I made a Facebook Page, and started designing a website.

And started writing this blog post.

I wanted to do this right, I wanted to launch myself as a life coach properly and with enough paperwork behind me to show that I did know what I was talking about. To help people become their best selves and bring happiness and calm to those around me.

What I had been doing my entire life, is what I was meant to do as an adult. To create, to help, to care about others.