Sarah Bytheway The Wholistic Coach

Being a parent so many joyous precious moments and also the ones which challenge us to the core of our being.

We teach our children to read, ride a bike, to swim, many other skills. But nothing is more important than teaching children how to regulate their emotions. So they can do this themselves one day.

Something I believe is lacking in our society, how we can manage our own emotions and those of our children for a healthier way of life.

A photo taken today, to remind me. How to support myself and my children. So thought I’d share with you all.

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A great activity to look at your whole precious life.

To look at the ups and downs, often there is no separating events, they lead to both happiness and sadness at the same time.

In coaching it's about seeing the events which have shaped your life, your beliefs and values. What does this mean to you?.

Looking at your strengths, skills and the important lessons along the way.

How you have changed, grown, and transitioned?

How can you use this insight to look forward to set your dreams and future goals for your life.

Your wonderous and wild one precious life.

Sunday Coaching Reflections....
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What will you choose today?

When things get hard or challenging?

The way we treat ourselves and others in the hard moments is another experience to define our character.

What strengths of your character do you draw upon when times get tough?

When times get tough, stick with it, and see the teaching inside.

A beautiful quote, which I have read so many times and is the way I aspire to live life. - one of my guiding lights.

Not always an easy path to tred, giving kindness and strength along the way. Both are possible.

We are all different and should celebrate the fact we are NOT robots.

But the way you treat people is the way they will treat you. The law of attraction is real.

Be kind, offer support when you can. We can change the world with kindness on small gift at a time.

Simply, you smile and others smile with you, it's catching!.

Life is busy, but we should never be too busy for an ear, a message, a call, giving our time.

To all my friends this Maya quote is for you, drop me a heart if you love this ❤️❤️

What is your guiding light? Who are your teachers?

Sarah x

Quote for Bank Holiday
No words needed
Have a beautiful day my friends.
❤️❤️❤️☀️☀️☀️

Responsibility…
When I realised it was my responsability to make the changes for myself. It seemed like common sense. But it took a lot of work to grow and realise no-one was coming to rescue me.
It’s down to you, you can do it.
One small step in the direction for your life.
Your vision can become reality, but are prepared to accept that it’s down to you to create, make and act.

Letting go of the old to allow the new.
Be like water, let the old wash over you and wash away with ease.
Every new day brings a new opportunity for learning and growth.
Bring in the new opportunities and experiences to create a new way of being.
Living from a new place of alignment and values.
What are you choosing today?
With love, peace and ease always.
❤️

Are you really listening? 👂

How much struggle will you experience?

Who is running your life?

What are you committed to change?

Awareness, compassion, small steps

Sunday thoughts...
🌱 How are you growing?
🤯 What have you learnt this
week?

I've started my degree journey
in careers guidance,
development and coaching...

✍️ Writing and reflecting this
week...

❓Sometimes I feel like I want to go
back, to feel safe and secure in
what I know...

➡️ But with new experiences,
come discomfort and this is
where growth happens....

💪 Don't be afraid, embrace the
learning, move forward.

This love is the rose that blooms forever 🌹 ❤️ 🌹- Rumi

Beautiful words by Thich Nhat Hanh
The Art of Living
What are you searching for?
What are you lacking?
What are you waiting for?
Let it go….be free

Sunday morning thought 💭
Parenting and motherhood.
It’s not always easy. The happiness and sadness.
On my journey I read a lot of Brene Brown.
I found this in her book which became a guiding light for me.
To my children, this is for you.
In all the messiness of being human.
My love is endless
To all those amazing mothers out there.
❤️❤️❤️

For today…let’s be grateful for what we have.
When we look at the glass half empty what comes up?
When we look from a different place of a glass full with water and air. It’s all energy.
How do we feel?
What do you have right now in your life which you’re grateful for?
Switch the mindset 🙏❤️☀️🙌
Reduce negativity
Feel lighter
Joy of the Reiki precepts.
Reiki for life

Commitment & Integrity to yourself
What commitments do you make?
What commitments do you break?
What does this say about the relationship you have with integrity for yourself?

I'm always chuffed when I receive a recommendation from a recent client. This is why I'm committed to coaching others ❤️.

It was wonderful to work with Carla, honestly, coaching and mentoring other mums is my calling.

She was about to give up, but Mentor Mums and myself were able to give her personal support, guidance and coaching to empower her to successfully apply for roles and secure interviews - something which she had not been able to do before.

The job market is volatile, uncertain, fast paced and requires a flexible approach, it requires a certain self-awareness to navigate. With changes in CV writing, job search, interview skills, and using AI, plus asking for support from others (our network!) to do this.

After having recently been in the position of looking for a new career and job, I have learnt a hell of a lot - see my top tips 🙌 .

I have also been privileged to have access to LHH's outplacement support. I have now embarked on a career as a coach, a leadership coach, a career coach, a mindfulness coach.

Recently, starting a new role as a career coach for students in Education to coach, mentor and guide them through their education journey, building their life skills, becoming employer ready and finding a rewarding career path.

If you have a friend, have a son or daughter who is looking at different career paths, or are someone who wants to make a career change and doesn't know where to start or is thinking of giving up, don't, there is support out there. Get in touch with my bio link 👌.

Always about choices, chances, courage and changes.
What will you choose today? 🧐
What chance or opportunity will this create? ❤️
What amount of courage will it take? 👊
Will this be in service of a change you want to make?
New beginnings ❤️❤️
New life ☀️☀️

The Beauty & Messiness of Motherhood

I had the joy of collaborating with a global company in December to design and deliver to an audience of over 100 women. An interactive webinar on a conversation around motherhood, careers and wellbeing - we are awesome!!!.

We chatted all things….
🚀Expectations & we can make our own rule book!.
❤️Our values, beliefs and boundaries, which lead to better decision making.
✨Guilt free self-care, to take care of ourselves.
🤩Seeking support, asking for help, and building community is critical.

There is no one-size fits all, but seeing organisations invest in this conversation and want to support women, parents, carers, is one way of how we change the landscape to enable and empower women, working parents and carers to feel like they are enough.

What's your experience of the high's and low's?

I have included a few useful resources from the session, sometimes it’s hard to see the woods for the trees……

❤️Take time to reflect on our
expectations, beliefs and how you
we’re raised by your parents.
❤️Design your own rule book – you are
the master of your own life.
❤️Look within – your values, boundaries
to help you make better decisions for
your life.
❤Take care of yourself - this is not
selfish it’s necessary to put our own
oxygen mask on first (have a go at
the exercise attached).
❤️Build a community to lift each other
up (not shame), built on conscious
listening, compassion and.
understanding that we’re not alone,
embracing difference.

INCOMING EVENT ........
I’m planning on running a face-to-face event in the summer (Mansfield way), if you’re interested and want to know more, please message me and I’ll pop you on a mailing list.

If you work in organisation who seeks change in this space, seeks a catalyst to facilitate a conversation around women’s health, careers and motherhood? Let’s talk, let’s change the landscape for our children, there is STILL much work to do….

What a beautiful poem, how to see failure.
❤️💫✨🙏

a home within your failure
by Liezel Graham

you are tall windows that let in all the light.
when nobody is watching, you are music.
you dance along the fault lines of your life.
this is courage.
look at you—how it spills from your front door!
down the path it goes, and out into the world.
every small moment you can find, you hold the holy in your hands.
and then, you set it free.
it knows your name.
somehow, it always finds its way back to you.
and when it does, i hope it settles in the curve of your neck
—a handful of wonder.
i hope that you let it. i hope that you turn your cheek
to feel its softness, feel it choosing you.
you only have one long breath in which to live.
a brief exhale.

call yourself brave.
call yourself beautiful.
call yourself wanted.

use your own voice for this. it might take a little while
to recognise but do it. be faithful about this.
you are a wild thing. a free thing. a soft thing.
an intriguing thing of many parts. a curious complexity.
if you have not been fed, it might feel easier to look away.
—to exist hungry. it is not.

there are things that one can do nothing about.

life will climb roughshod into the cage of your chest.
but also, there is beauty. look for it.

eyes open. eyes open. eyes wide open.

i hope that tall trees grow all over your life.
and lilacs, brassy and bold.
may their sweetness purple your walls.
may bees come, and caterpillars, and other small beasts
holding prophecy in their names.
may they make their home within every failure
you will ever own. may they never leave.
and in the evenings, when you are alone
with your darkness, may you be kind to your whole life. you will need to learn how to do this.
—each sharp corner, every hidden door, every secret room.
may you know it all as your own. as yours.
may kindness dwell in your mouth.
may you know how to say your own name with love.

and if you ever want to give up, may a blackbird find you.
may she settle in your hair, build a nest called grace.
—a home within your failure.
a cocoon called accepted.

there, i hope she sings behind your eyes.
i hope in time, that you will believe each note of her song.

i bless you with this.

{📷 frayed, and worn, and stained, and still there is grace for a new life}

I am slipping this gentle reminder across the table to you... a reminder that within Grace, there is always the beauty of second chances.

This little piece is a meditation cloth for one who needs reminding that grace is always enough, and that God always gives grace in abundance to us when we ask for it.

This piece is stitched together from a remnant of pale blue irish linen, and a vintage cotton doily.

The first layer is a piece of pale blue Irish linen, and I have stitched a vintage cotton lawn doily onto this fabric. The doily is old and shows signs of wear and use, notably a faint mark on the right hand side. It feels apt that this little piece of textile nows has the words 'Grace, is enough' stitched onto it.

This little piece is now available in my Studio Shop.
The link is in my Linktree in my bio.
Shipping is, as always, free.

The poem, 'a home within your failure', is from my third book, The Velveting Bones.

Sending you all love, from a very chilly Glasgow!

liezel

Coaching value and purpose.....

I've been working with clients since starting my business in October. I'm sharing a clients recommendation from my 3 month coaching programme with some useful resources.

I'm so honored to have worked with Sarah and met her on our business journey together - yes another Sarah😄.

Being her coach to support her goals to grow her business (3 new clients) and embark on a new entreprenurial mindset (understanding more about her core beliefs and boundaries).

She commited to a 3 month coaching package, yes it's an investment of time, energy and money. But the outcomes speak for themselves, importantly it's about growth, self discovery and activating change from within, creating deep insight no matter how uncomfortable. These are sometimes necessary. But you won't look back.

💖Coaching is about activating personal change from within.
💡Are you ready to ask yourself what you want to make happen?
✨What do you want to commit your life to?

🚀I have shared some resources to support you to shape your vision, intentions, goals and outcomes. With some important self reflective questions to support you.

Plus a reminder that real growth happens when we are outside the comfort zone - a learning model - where are you now?

Are you prepared to say yes, to invest the time, energy and investment to create what you desire, it's all possible. It's the small steps which create the biggest change.

How are you living now, how do you want to live? Will you move out of your comfort zone and listen to the calling? No matter what it takes?

If you're interested in finding out more about the coaching services I offer, reach out....I'd love to hear from you.

2024 let's go 🚀🌟💖🪴

“Life is a field of unlimited possibilities” Deepak Chopra

Talking about all things gratitude ✨and how powerful this practice is❤️.

Gratitude derives its name from the latin word gratia, grace, graceiousness or gratefulness.

Psychological studies and evidence shows that regular pratice, can bring us greater feelings of joy, presence - a general feeling of wellbeing. This can support us in times of overwhelm, anxiety and low mood especially at this time of year of when expectations run high.

One of the precepts of Reiki "Be Grateful" ❤️.

It can also bring us deeper connection to relationships.

I have used this in leadership events, team meetings and my coaching practice.

It is so powerful and often creates a better sense of togetherness and reduces external and internal conflicts.

Simple but effective.

What 3 things are you are grateful for today?

Is there a special someone who deserves your grace? Why not share the gift of gratitide this Christmas is costs nothing, we often forget to say the simple things - who will you give a "thank you" to?

I'm saying thank you to everyone I have had the pleasure of meeting this year, for being with me on this journey.

I'm thankful for working with several organisations over the past few weeks who have meant I have got my business off the ground and who support their people with coaching, a profound way to give back to someone for their ongoing career / life development.