tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116476692011-04-21T19:46:06.664-07:00Cheerful coaching to empower parents.Victorianoreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11647669.post-1112487025980841282005-04-02T16:09:00.000-08:002005-04-02T16:10:25.980-08:00I came across <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/AmericanFamily/story?id=124748&page=1">this article</a> about parent coaching.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11647669-111248702598084128?l=christianparentcoach.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Victorianoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11647669.post-1111606653910699032005-03-23T11:35:00.000-08:002005-03-30T11:38:10.196-08:00More and more parents are turning to parent coaches. Read some of the reasons why.<br /><br /><a href="<http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1041/is_2_82/ai_112450630>">Click here</a> to learn more.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11647669-111160665391069903?l=christianparentcoach.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Victorianoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11647669.post-1111600238439884522005-03-23T08:46:00.000-08:002005-03-23T11:27:46.166-08:004 years ago, after my son was born, I knew that God was calling me to leave the practice of psychiatry. "How could this be?" I asked God over and over again. After all, I had used so much of my life's resources- my time, my energy and my money- to become a physician that it seemed unfathomable that I should leave the field in which I had done so well. So I fought with God. I talked back. I disobeyed. I did not listen and could not see that I could leave behind my hard-won identity as a doctor.<br /><br />Despite all this, God's faithfulness took me in the direction of coaching many times in those early years of career indecision. I had moments of prayerful clarity in which I knew that I was being called to help parents in a way other than through the practice of psychiatry. It was in one of these moments that I discovered the calling of coaching. I received coach training at the Graduate School of Coaching and even set up a website.<br /><br />Lack of faith led me to quickly change my mind and I decided that it was "unrealistic" to think that I could switch from psychiatry to coaching. I had spent so many years immersed in the world of illness that it seemed impossible for me to imagine myself doing anything different.<br /><br />But God had other plans for me. In fact, I always maintained a side job of coaching despite my continued involvement in psychiatry. People who were not patients (friends, co-workers, acquaintances) would approach me with their parenting issues and we would work together to come up with solutions. If you were to ask me at that time was involved in coaching, I would have said "no". I thought that I was just spending some time on the phone with parents who needed advice and helping them come up with solutions to their parenting dilemmas. A few times I even helped some busy moms by e-mail.<br /><br />Years of learning to listen to God, discern His will for my life and study His Word have paid off. I am officially embracing my role as a parenting coach with love, joy and peace.<br /><br />Thank you Lord for all that you have done for me. Thank you for your provisions and protection. Thank you for making a way out of no way. Thank you for your faithfulness and love even when I strayed from you. You are Almighty God and your mercy reigns forever!<br />Amen.<br /><br />Check out <a href="http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1041/is_2_82/ai_112450630"target="_blank">this article</a> about parent coaching from Better Homes and Gardens magazine.<br /><br /><br /><a href="mailto:vcar77@hotmail.com">E-mail me</a> for more information and to set up a free phone consultation to decide if we are right for each other.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11647669-111160023843988452?l=christianparentcoach.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Victorianoreply@blogger.com0