Hello, hello, gang. Allison Crow, here, your favorite life coach. Today, I’m bringing you something exciting. Today is the first in a new series we are calling Lessons from Life Coaching Calls. In the Soul-Full Success membership, if you think of it like a community center, or a yoga center, or gym that has supportive classes, you don’t go to every single one, but I do provide a variety of live coaching sessions for my clients. We have business coaching and we have life coaching in addition to some training.
 
Today is going to be the first in the series of lessons learned in life coaching. What I love is these are topics that come up organically for my clients that I know will relate to you. Today, we had a super powerful call. You never know what’s going to come up, but when this … I’m going to share with you in a moment. One of my clients gave permission for me to share this kind of journey, and the story, and the story of our call today with you guys. Actually, all my clients gave permission for me to talk about what we talked on the call today.
 
It’s so fun because one client was being coached in her situation and everybody else on the call was like, “Oh my gosh. I was able to put that in my life. I was able to plug it into my life and my being where it works for me.” So I’m excited to introduce this series. Today, we are going to be talking about one of the foundational tools in life coaching. Sometimes, as a very experienced coach or the more experienced you get, you can often forget these foundational tools. Just the way that my client presented her situation today and what she wanted to be coached on, it very quickly became clear that values clarification would be helpful.
 
Let me give you a little bit of a setup for how this showed up. I have a long-standing member. She’s actually been in and out of my programs since, I think, 2013. She has been a longtime member. She’s definitely Super Soulie member of my coaching program. Since school has been out with her kids, she’s been spending lots of time not only with her immediate family, but extended family. For a lot of people, there’s a big shift. There was a big shift in May and June and she’s been feeling really funky. She came into our group the other day and was saying, “Oh yeah, I’m hiding. I’m coming back out. I’ve been in a funk. I just wanted to out myself and share that I intend to come back.” She was pulling herself out of a little bit of a funk she’d been in.
 
So today, she wanted some coaching around that. She was a little discouraged because she’d felt definitely very blah and had more “under the covers” days than she wished. She was wanting to not only get her energy and vitality back on track, but also get her money back on track. She also presented saying that she’d had the last four years a very stable and reliable income. And through the last season, it’s dropped, and so that was discouraging. She was just feeling a little bit lost.
 
As we began to talk, I could hear in her language a couple of things. I mean, a lot of times it’s so easy to automatically go to our thinking, but I decided to play with this concept that nothing was wrong at first and that there is no should or “shoulding.” Then, we got to this place where she said something about not spending much time in personal development. She had even asked like, “I can’t even know what inner work is now. What is inner work?” Because we often talk about inner work and we talk about outer work. The way I hold that in context is inner work is doing your thought work, your emotional work, your spiritual work that sets up your thinking and feelings so tha...