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Angie Taylor
I have two separate but inter-related businesses. I have a doctorate in natural health and use that degree in my life coaching business where I empower my clients to find balance in their lives and teach them about how balance will affect their overall health. I also use this degree in my other business where I work with expectant couples as they travel along their journey into parenthood. In addition to my doctorate, I am a certified life coach, childbirth educator, birth doula, postpartum doula, trust birth facilitator and breastfeeding support person as well as being a wife and the mother of nine; the five youngest are still at home being home-schooled. One might wonder how a life coach could also be so deeply involved in the birth world. I was a birth worker first but found that a lot of what I
was doing fell within the life coaching field. Even working on my doctorate came after teaching childbirth classes and supporting couples through the birth process. So in 2009, I decided to add life coach certification to my credentials. One of my specialties is healing from birth trauma. Besides, birth is all about life so being a life coach is rather fitting, don't you think? Anyway, it's not uncommon to find me teaching two or more childbirth classes each week along with coaching those expectant couples as they work through their fears regarding this normal, natural process. The classes are all held on weekends or weeknights, which gives me time during the day, after teaching my children, to work with a few life coaching clients. I have spent the past few years working mostly with weight loss clients but have also worked with many striving to improve their overall health. I have found that giving my clients the space to be vulnerable without being
taken advantage of is what allows them the room to grow as they become empowered to make the changes that will affect them and their families for years to come. Some days the coaching is scheduled but often I will receive that phone call or email wanting to know if I am available to help with an emergency. If such a session will work into the day then there is a quick chat about the coaching fee, followed by sending a quick invoice via email and the coaching begins. I typically work with life coaching clients for a few hours in the morning before homeschooling as well as a few hours in the afternoon after homeschooling and lunch when the kids are happily spending time with each other or with neighborhood friends. Most days end with preparing the family meal and sitting down with them to enjoy it. The days that I teach childbirth classes sometimes requires that I miss family dinner and baby's typically begin the birth process at some point during the night, which leads to a short nap before homeschooling. Coaching is always part of that birth T I L T MAGAZ I N E J ULY 2 0 1 1
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