How can life coaching help with depression?
Depression is a very common ailment, but fortunately it is treatable. Conventional
treatment with anti-depressant drugs can be highly effective, but what is often just
as important is to ask: What causes the depression in the first place? By asking
the question, we start to treat depression in a more holistic way.
I can provide some answers to this question as, yes, I have been there, done it,
and got the t-shirt! When I went through my depression I went from ‘couch’ to ‘coach’
and I now help people to deal with depression in a more holistic way, coaching individuals
through the process. A holistic approach like this looks at the imbalances in wider
aspects of a person’s life.
There are many aspects of our lives which may get us down, and might contribute to
a depression. We might be in a job that we don’t particularly like; perhaps a relationship
is not going well; or maybe in the middle of winter, our lifestyle means we are not
seeing enough daylight. Life can feel like a roller-coaster that is not much fun.
We may start to feel a little low, and where do we turn to then? Doctors often
don’t have the training or the resources to help sort out all those aspects of our
lives.
A life-coach can help us deal with stressful aspects of our lives. A coach works
with you to discover your core values - the things that are most important in your
life, and a coach helps you to make the changes which will bring your life back into
balance. And when we change things that are not right, and work towards our dreams,
the cloud of depression starts to lift, and we find our happiness again.
“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling
deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled
by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching
for different ways or truer answers.”
Dr. M. Scott Peck
