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Strategies for change
MP resident helps others learn tools to recognize potential, create new futures
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Madison Park Times editor Madison Park’s Sarah Armstrong knows what it is like to feel stuck and not sure where to go next in career. She spent eight years contemplating just that and wondering how that would affect the rest of her life and her family. Now the former nurse, healthcare attorney and mediator helps other people as they navigate major life changes in her new career as a change and transition strategist. “Our lives are full of major changes, and for most of the major life changes, we don’t need help we just kind of go do it and we get the result that we get,” she said. Every so often, however, people get stuck and want to make a change in their life but don’t know how. They may talk about it to friends or family but never act upon it for whatever reason, Armstrong said. As a change strategist, Armstrong helps them people overcome those barriers. Most of Armstrong’s clients are between 40 and 75 years old, people old enough to have experienced a number of life changes in the past but want to be more prepared to deal with future ones, or they are people who want to make sure they make the most of their remaining years. “They don’t want to repeat past mistakes, and they don’t want to think too small,” Armstrong said. A change strategist is different from a life coach, which has a very broad job description. It is also different from career coaches, who help people do their job well, Armstrong said. She is also not a therapist. “Therapists help you understand why you feel the way you feel and give you skills to heal your trauma,” Armstrong said. “But as a change strategist, I help people clarify what they feel and how it’s having an impact on their decision making in this major life change.” Armstrong said, at first, her clients see her every two weeks in the “strategic phase.” That phases entails gaining clarity about what the major change is in a person’s life, how is it challenging them and assessing how they are living their life right now and how this major change is impacting other aspects of their life. From there, Armstrong and her client create a vision for their life with more possibilities. Armstrong said her clients
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Photo courtesy Sarah Armstrong Former nurse and attorney Sarah Armstrong sits in her Madison Park office where she meets with clients virtually to help them tackle difficult changes and plot new directions in their lives.
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