When we hear the words, "I'm a life coach", it's often met with many internal (or sometimes very visible) eye rolls, with a lot of people feeling suspicious about what the term actually means.
Their trepidation isn't always valid, but in many cases, it's completely reasonable.
You see, for someone to become a life coach, it takes few to no qualifications and experience.
Sure, you can do a short course, get a certificate of some sort and say you've been properly trained in whatever coaching space you dream to be a part of. But is it of the calibre of a psychologist or a psychiatrist?
No. And we need to stop pretending that it is.
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Renae* still feels viscerally angry and taken advantage of when she thinks back to the moment she met Grace.
"Grace was a friend of a friend and at a birthday party, she introduced herself to me and said she was a women's health and period coach. I was initially pretty impressed, as I had been dealing with some bad period pain and other female-health related frustrations, so I was looking to soak up any solutions anyone offered," Renae tells Mamamia.
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