Finding Your Inner Happiness: Self Coaching Programme

Hello! Welcome to Finding Your Inner Happy Before you get stuck in here ' s just a little bit about myself. My name is Lorna, I am from West Yorkshire, UK. I am a wife, mum of 2 girls & 1 fur baby Pippa the Cockapoo. I am a children's yoga and mindfulness teacher and happiness coach. I have a passion fir creating awareness surrounding mental health which is why I have chosen these two career paths. I believe early intervention in children by teaching them early about mental health, recognising signs of ill mental health in themselves and others and how to combat these concerns through breathing and mindfulness techniques. The movement in creating awareness amongst young children is on it' s way but we have a way to go. The only way we are going to create any change is by adults understanding their own mental health, feelings and emotions to then pass the teachings on to the next generation. By being a happiness coach this is what I strive to achieve helping you to delve deeper within yourselves, discover who you really are and learn to accept and embrace the real you.

Before we can even begin to look at making changes within our lives or within our mindset we must first find clarity of what it is we are striving towards. Alot of us may feel like we already know.... we want to be happy right? To be successful? To feel fulfilled? But what does that look like? How does it feel? What do you change from the way you live your life now to get to where you want to be? Making random changes in hope of creating a better life is like stabbing in the dark and that is why I am here, to help you make conscious decisions for you to see and feel the change happen.

By acknowledging and accepting our unique personality, how we learn and what scenarios we are more comfortable in is the first step to finding our inner happiness. By constantly fighting against what feels right to us because we are chasing what society believes we should be only leads to self doubt, loss of identity and confusion. Use this first module to find the type of person you are and use your findings to your advantage to allow you to delve deeper into your true self

Coaching is about looking towards the future whereas counselling is looking in the past but sometimes we have to reconnect with the past in order to move forward and that is what we are going to do here. In this exercise we are going to embark on a visualisation exercise. The idea is to allow yourself to travel back in time to a memory of who you were as a child. If it helps you could hold a photo or childhood item to help guide you back.

By now you will have connected with your inner child and be more aware of the characteristics from your childhood that are still with you in your life today and how they affect you. In this next section we are going to be looking at our truths. In particularly, what stories we have been told by others that have consequently then manifested as part of our identity and the stories that we tell ourselves which are stopping us from achieving our goals.

By being aware of our core values we can live a life that aligns with our true beliefs. Core values are different for everyone depending on what we prioritise in our life. They could be things like family, friends, relationships to career, nutrition and exercise. The different values that are chosen make up the different areas of a persons life. From these areas we can use a simple exercise to determine where in our life needs focusing on in order to bring balance

Well done!! You have come so far! Reflecting on our inner self, beliefs and values can be no easy feat and so I just want to take this time to congratulate you and prompt you to do the same for yourself. Now we have narrowed down what area of our core values we want to work on the next step is to create a goal. Are you ready? Let' s go

Amazing job!! By now you will have dis covered and created your main goal. What else is there to do other than crack on with it ? ? Well... if you want to have a better chance of succeeding with as little struggle as possible this is where the road map to success comes in. Remember back in the limiting belief section and the saying no pain no gain ? Here is why it doesn't have to be true. There may be some moments of discomfort but it doesn't have to be painful to get to where you want to be as mos t of the struggle comes with not knowing which direction to go, which step to take next and what mindset you adopt.

Mindset is a huge factor when it comes to creating goals and staying o-n track to achieve them. Think about the journey to your goals as if you were going on holiday to far away place. You could A. decide to go by coach because it' s cheap and it' s only one mode of transport so convenient right? At first the prospect of this new adventure is exciting; the adrenaline keeps going for the first few hours but then things begin to wain. You become tired, your bum is numb from sitting on the seat for so long, there's a weird smell and eventually the journey becomes a repetitive cycle of toilet stops, service food and uncomfortable sleep. Or you could choose B. a mix of different modes of transport including a train, a plane, a chauffeur driven car, a subway and a taxi and you get there twice as fast. Which would you choose? The point being that although there isn't that much research into why we get bored although it is something that scientists are looking at. We do that doing the same day in day out gets boring and so eventually we stop when it all becomes too much.