New Perspectives

From the beginning of my 12 weeks of parent coaching, I really appreciated Amy’s patient, caring, exploratory and organized approach. She was consummately professional and prepared for each of our calls. I learned to analyze the issue we were facing in an entirely new way. The holistic and living-systems framework that Amy introduced me to gave me a much deeper understanding of the many different factors that may have been contributing to the issue at hand with my daughter. This enabled me to not only understand my daughter’s challenge but also to be more conscious of my own thoughts, reactions and behavior. The weekly calls enabled me to gradually try to implement the approaches we had discussed in our calls and then to reflect on how this went during our calls. Of course, no behavior change is instant and sustained change takes time and even after these 12 weeks I will continue to work on and implement what I’ve learned for months to come. What has stayed with me are the new ways of thinking, of seeing a situation, of approaching a tense situation, and of recognizing when I’m falling into my old patterns. I was also surprised to see in how many other areas of my life I was able to apply these insights—not only in my family, but also at work and my community. As a working mom, I feel the insights I have gained have helped me to be less reactive and more intentional, and most of all, more present in my daughter’s life and in my own.