A Coaching Client’s Note a Year Later: “I Am Thriving”
These words arrived unexpectedly in my inbox this week from an amazing woman I worked with a year ago.
I’m sharing them (with gratitude) because they capture something I see again and again:
Coaching doesn’t just change how you think. It changes how you live.
It changes how you show up for your partners and your children.
And it often changes what becomes possible for your children and yoru partner too.
Here is what the note said:
“I wanted to thank you…
So grateful for all that you have given me.
I continue to learn who I am, and what I want.
I am not waiting for someone else to get me where I want to go.
I am here, right now, and living, breathing, and recognizing.
I remember 50/50 often, but also focus on the legacy I want to leave behind, and have way less ‘shoulds.’
I would say I am overall thriving.
I am still working more than I would like but figuring that out and in the meantime, remembering to stop and just be, like taking the little one to the park.
Thank you for the amazing impact you have had on my life (and ultimately theirs).
Much love…”
Her email also included beautiful photos of her children in nature.
That detail matters to me, because it’s a picture of what changes when someone becomes more present:
They start noticing, they start pausing they start choosing, and they start living inside their life again
What I hope you take from this is that ou don’t need perfect circumstances to start thriving.
You don’t need everything solved.
You don’t need permission.
You can be figuring it out and still be deeply alive.
You can be in a 50/50 season and still be building a legacy you’re proud of.
You can work a lot and still practice “stop and just be.”
And you can have fewer shoulds—without lowering your standards or your impact.
That’s not small.
That’s the work.