Holistic Lifestyle Coaching© by Karen Fiorucci

Holistic Lifestyle Coaching is used to help clients with transitions in their personal and professional life, and in the processes of self-actualization. This multi-disciplinary system draws from sociology, psychology, career counseling, nutritional counselling and numerous other methods. Often a lifestyle coach also practices mentoring, and aids clients in goal and self-assessment and behavior re-patterning to help them find their authentic path and to help them rediscover a child-like wonder about life.

Karen approaches the art and science of holistic lifestyle coaching with an understanding and experience about mind/body/spirit connections through counseling and motivational techniques.   She uses and practices intuitive energy healing and has incorporated yoga, meditation, nutrition, Brain Gym, chakra balancing, reiki, and IET® Integrated Energy Healing into her holistic lifestyle coaching practice.

What makes Karen’s Lifestyle Coaching different from the standard life coaching techniques is that she encourages her clients to heal and to grow, using guided meditation, a  revolutionary  process called “The Work”  as well as a supportive, in-depth and often relaxing and lighthearted question and answer technique that allows clients to take charge of their own healing process and to explore their possible life path in a supportive atmosphere.

Some of the techniques that Karen incorporates into her Lifestyle Coaching Sessions:

"Talking and Listening” 

Often, we as a species feel that we are not allowed to share our deepest selves with others.   We feel that others will not understand, support or judge our deepest feelings and ideas.   Karen embraces the sharing of information in a supportive and fully confidential atmosphere for it is only in articulating for ourselves what we feel we need and want out of life that we begin to walk our authentic path. 

As part of LifeStyle Coaching, Karen spends a good bit of time talking with her clients in order to help them fully realize their life's goals and dreams.   She combines both intuitive and practical guidance on how her clients might forge their highest path.   As they embark upon their conversations, clients often find their own answers as Karen points out the important aspects of what has been said and also unsaid.   From these answers, Karen works with clients to find concrete steps that can be undertaken to heal the client and to help them find their genuine path.

Missions 

As part of the Lifestyle Coaching process, clients receive Missions.   Missions are positive, internal and external tasks that encourage clients to pursue their own healing and progression towards an authentic, balanced life and an increase in self-confidence and self-esteem.

Missions may include:

Affirmations:

"Affirmation is a positive statement of (positive) belief."¹ Affirmations are written down in an effort to introduce more positive and affirming thought patterns into our lives. After a time, writing the affirmations daily helps change both our thought patterns and our patterns of behavior.   As an example, please try the following right now.   Take a blank sheet of paper and write out the words: "I am a wonderful and successful writer (or painter or musician or whatever it is that you are)," ten times in a row.   Please notice what happened to you as you were doing this simple exercise.   Were there any thoughts that came up as you wrote the words?   If so, what were they?   Did you agree with what you were writing or did you disagree and think this was nothing more than a silly waste of time?   If you disagreed, I encourage you to take a look at why it was so easy for you to disagree with a statement that affirms your positive attributes.   Affirmations can help free us from negative thought patterns and introduce and establish new positive and forward thinking patterns.   The correct affirmations (and they are different for each of us) can essentially help re-pattern our ways of thinking of ourselves and of the world around us.

Tasks:

We often have dreams but those dreams our not allowed out to play.   The tasks that arise from the coaching process encourage finding the appropriate methods of allowing our authentic selves to come out of hiding.   Truly, these tasks can expand our horizons and help us become our true selves in all aspects of our lives.   Sometimes, the tasks can be challenging, but they are always tasks that are in line with helping the client live their life with authentic purpose.   For example, one of Karen’s clients has been told that she could not conceive naturally.   After much testing over months there was no clinical conclusion or physical illness to stop her from conceiving naturally.  After 3 months of Spiritual Lifestyle Coaching –using nutrition, yoga, meditation, colour therapy, positive affirmations and Energy Therapy.  Her dream came true, she became pregnant naturally.  Our deepest and most desired dreams can come true...You just have to believe!  

Conversations:

In order for us to live authentically and walk our true path, there are many conversations that we need to have with those in our lives.   Sometimes, these conversations are easy and sometimes they can be challenging.   However, when we take the courageous step and have these talks we can more fully realize our potential as sisters, brothers, parents, children, lovers, husbands, wives, friends, and indeed human beings.   Karen works with her clients to find the best approach to these conversations so that they can be conducted in as loving and supportive a manner as possible.

Journaling:

Writing down our thoughts and feelings was something that many of us did when we were young.   The pages of diaries and now blogs can hold all of our dreams, frustrations, desires, and plans.   When done for a specific purpose they can also serve to give answers to many of the questions that arise in the process of coaching.   Often, during a session, Karen will note a specific issue that needs to be addressed to aid in further progress.   She will ask the client to journal on those issues so that the client can glean and benefit from the information they write.   We can be free to express our most intimate selves in our journals and no one will ever see them but us.   This allows for a more honest and authentic approach to our lives and by looking at and interpreting what we have written we can build our path from this technique.

As the need arises, Karen incorporates many other techniques into her Spiritual Life style Coaching practice.   She utilizes the intuitive connections of the ancient art of Usui Reiki with other Advanced Energy Healing techniques from Healing Angels.  As well as she utilizes the healing and respected power of stones and crystals.   Often, clients receive a "faith stone or coin," as part of their healing process.   These stones/coins, chosen by the client or their angels - these can held as a focal point for emotional energy.   And in fact, clients have reported that they have come to rely on their stones/coins for focus and quiet energy.

Referral to other practioners:  Karen will not hesitate to refer her clients to other practioners who can further assist the client’s progression to total mind, body and emotional/spirit healing and wellbeing.