How Life-Coaching Can Help Build Better Relationships

Relationships are an important aspect of our lives. They can be rewarding, but relationships can also be challenging and a struggle. We want them to be as deep and meaningful as possible for us – but we can find difficulty in making this happen.

Would you like to rekindle the spark you once had with your significant other? Be respected and understood by your friends? Admired for who you are by your family? Be more genuine and authentic throughout your professional relationships?

To fully enjoy and benefit from our relationships, we need to improve the way we manage our relationships both within our personal lives and where we work.

Why are life-coaching principles so effective in relationships?

Life coaching touches several aspects that help you build or maintain effective relationships. You will be presented with a wide range of communication principles, insights and strategies for engaging with other people in positive and impacting ways.

How can a life-coach help?

A life coach is trained to help you recognized and address certain thinking and behavior that may be getting in the way of you and healthy relationships.

For example, if you are:

Single and wanting to be in a healthy, loving relationship? – You are wondering what might be getting in the way of you finding a satisfying, healthy relationship. Coaching can help you develop the self-awareness, clarity and skills, to know what you really want, trust your inner wisdom and support you in building authentic relationships.

Struggling with relationship transitions – Whether you are moving into retirement, separation or divorce, or have lost a loved one through death, these experiences usually mean stress in dealing with the unknown and change that is unexpected. You may be feeling unfamiliar feelings of self-doubt as well as other big feelings as you travel through this new territory. Coaching can help you ground yourself again and gain self-awareness and self-confidence as you make conscious choices for moving forward.

Transitioning to parenthood – As you move into this exciting time of your life, you may be experiencing some feelings that are new, surprising or confusing to you. Your expectations of what life was going to be like may be quite different than what it actually is. Get support for what comes up and learn how to keep communicating authentically with your partner and bring conscious choice to your parenting.

In a parent/child/teen relationship – Parenting is so rich with joys and challenges. It is also an incredible opportunity to grow and learn about yourself, as your kids can be your greatest teachers, if you are open to learning from them. Coaching can enable you to see where you get stuck with your kids, and offers you tools and support to make your parenting choices conscious instead of reactive.

Business relationships – Your relationships with your business partners, colleagues, co-workers, or boss affect your feelings of well being as much as your intimate relationships. By enhancing your self-awareness and your social and emotional intelligence, coaching can help you deal with difficult or challenging relationships, be a better leader and achieve more success in your work life.

Are there any other benefits?

There are numerous benefits of working with a life coach. You can learn how to:

• Communicate more effectively with other people
• Understand how to earn the trust of other people
• Dissolve arguments and disagreements before they even begin
• Increase your confidence and self-esteem
• Develop better social skills

Getting the Best From Your Relationships

A key ingredient to happy and fulfilled people is the quality of their intimate, social and professional relationships. Working with a life coach you can learn how to build strong relationships, discover different communication styles, get rid of limiting beliefs about relationships, and create empowering ones instead. At the heart of life are our relationships with others. It’s never too late to have healthy, exciting, rewarding relationships.

Mike James, an independent content writer. For the information in this post, London-based CBT, Life-Coaching and Counselling specialist Klear Minds were consulted.