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The Body is the Midwife to the Mind
I quit a coaching certification program I was enrolled in. This is highly unusual behavior for me. I want to share my process.
I don’t need to mention the name of the organization because this is not about them. Many other students in the program are satisfied. It’s about me, how I value my time and the work that I’m doing.
The class met regularly by phone from 12:30-2:30pm every Wednesday. Classmates called in from California to Denmark. We’ve been together since October and the others will continue the process into July. But I wasn’t feeling a sense of connectedness with the material or the other participants. I wasn’t inspired or motivated by the weekly documents I downloaded from the digital library. I began to resent not being able to schedule anything on Wednesdays during that time period. I noticed how my body was responding to the notebooks on my desk and anything related to the program.
One of the key learnings I received during the in-person training for this discipline, which I adored, is that the body is the midwife to the mind. Feelings in our bodies (we shouldn’t ignore) will show up before words have formulated around them in our brains. We need to trust these.
Although I had a satisfying conversation with the founder of the program about my complaints (which she took to heart), the bottom line was that it didn’t work for me. And that’s enough to know. Speaking with her and then letting my classmates know was challenging. This is the grown-up stuff of life and business that confronts us regularly. How we move through it is a measure of our maturity and the willingness to be humble and teachable.
I’m feeling a little more mature, definitely humbled and also free of what felt like an obligation. Please share your thoughts on “quitting” on my blog.
Highlights from My Blog
Cookie Russo and I met at Camp Chinqueka as young girls–eight and ten. She has become a very successful author/illustrator of children’s books. At lunch on Saturday she gifted me with a hot-off-the-press copy of “A Very Big Bunny” and told me how she got inspired for this most recent publication. I love this story! Read more...
Mutual Admiration Society-Members Wanted
Friday was such a rewarding day. Read about my interactions with Debbie, Lena and Cathline and why having them in my professional life makes working feel like joy. I want to put it out there that membership in my “Mutual Admiration Society” is wide open to applicants...
Integrity – The quality or condition of being whole or undivided; completeness. That was the first word that sprang to mind when I received an email this morning from 341 Studios announcing their new logo and website. How many times have you wanted to hire a service provider, only to notice that that shoemaker wasn’t wearing their own shoes? Read more...