Positive Psychology Coaching Course

Well how do I describe it? Firstly, all my success and progress over the last 10 months is down to Positive Psychology Coaching. Prior to beginning the PP journey, I was feeling lost and without clear direction in my life. I had achieved everything I had wanted up to that point in my life but knew I had more inside of me. I couldn’t get any consistency or clarity in my life, I felt like there was a hole in me and I didn’t know how to fill it. Emotionally I was either feeling really good from doing exercise and fitness like a maniac or I was in a dark, lonely and depressed place doing nothing which led to consistent socialising with negative consequences affecting my mood and behaviours, there was never any balance.

I decided that if I was going to breakthrough this cycle of highs and lows and get more from life I was going to need help. I explained to Derrick where I was at and how I was feeling and asked for help to put checks and balances in place to help me be consistent and get clear on what I wanted next for my life. Together we identified hurdles and then we worked to create new patterns of behaviour for my mind which in turn led to better control of my emotions and a more self-regulated level of wellbeing the likes of which I’ve never experienced, and it keeps getting better and better each day.

What is positive psychology? Well, you probably know that normal psychology deals with the past and your traumas and then has you work through it and then tries to label it and give you a specific treatment. For example, pills for depression, CBT for behaviour change. PP is different in that it uses the resilience you have developed in the past to help you thrive in the present and flourish moving forward. The actual definition is the science of optimal wellbeing and thriving among individuals and communities. What it does is identify your core strengths. Things such as kindness, curiosity, gratitude, creativity, leadership etc. Through the sessions you are led on how to better use your core strengths in your day-to-day life so that you are doing much more of what is natural for you. It also strengthens these even further and then helps you to use these strengths to bring up your underdeveloped areas (for me these were prudence, self-regulation, and humility) . Once these strengths are being used to their maximum and your weaknesses brought up the level of clarity, the past present and future is unreal.

Since starting with The Positive Psychology Coach I have started two successful business, given up smoking, stopped drinking, my personal relationship has never been stronger, and I am full of positive emotions. The main thing that I have been given through the work is to have a sense of meaning to my life. I have found my calling and I wake up every day grateful to be alive and to be able to fully experience the beauty of life. If you feel like you are lost and don’t know what you are doing or what direction you are heading, if you feel depressed and alone or if you want to take your life to the next level then without doubt this is the Coach for you.