Life Coaching with Melody

Posted January 12th, 2014 by Melody Taylor-Fliege & filed under New Years.

It is now 2014 mid January! How are you doing on your New Years Resolutions?

Are you repeating the same process of running out of steam like years past? If not, what are you doing different!

2013 taught me so much about approaching goal setting from the inside out and the role my values play in the process. I feel like a new person full of so much momentum for my 2014 goals of growing and developing my business and myself. The thing I’m doing different this year is working with my fears rather than allowing my fears to take charge through my emotions and drive me to anxiety overload. I’m taking time each day where I give my emotions time to release. It’s like an emotional meditation but rather than quieting the mind I allow myself to feel what ever I feel throughout my whole body. I cry, laugh, or whatever creatively surfaces. When the allotted time is up, I pull myself together, breath, ground myself and get back to my day. I also do meditate to quiet the mind. I guess I am doing a lot more of self recognition through these types of actions. So far I am seeing progress!

What is different for you this year?

Posted December 30th, 2013 by Melody Taylor-Fliege & filed under New Years.

As I sit here contemplating that in a matter of hours 2013 will fade allowing for 2014 to take over the now-moment, and savour the celebration of the risked I’ve taken and mountains I’ve conquered. I am filled with anticipation and an inner strength for what is yet to come. I’m curious about what you have experienced in the last year. Tell me!

Posted December 30th, 2013 by Melody Taylor-Fliege & filed under Uncategorized.

I love my work as a professional coach. Working with others helps me appreciate the adversity I have gone through in my life. My adversity brings beauty to my coaching.

“The most beautiful people are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” C. S. Lewis

Posted September 29th, 2013 by Melody Taylor-Fliege & filed under Uncategorized.

“Life pulls us in so many directions all at the same time making balance a challenge to find. Money, career, health; is there more? Perhaps relationship is core! Creative, curiosity most certain to encore; fun and development and so much more. So dance in the moment, create and explore then detach from the outcome! Let go and adore! That beauty of miracle beyond belief that comes through that core you stretched out of before; and into the NOW you find yourself changed, moment by moment somehow arranged. Do not fear change, embrace it full-on! Embody transformation! Let go! Re-define! Stretch yourself beyond what you know! See what you find! Balance is restored, for it’s a state of mind!” – Melody Taylor-Fliege

The wheel of life is a coaching tool used to help find what areas of your life to focus on in order to bring more balance.

What methods have you used to help you balance through your life changes?

Posted July 13th, 2013 by Melody Taylor-Fliege & filed under Cartoon, Life Coaching.

People are always asking me, “What exactly is coaching?”. The web is full of explanations of similar and purely textual information. I know that there are people who are overwhelmed with this mass of information and so I thought I would provide visually oriented people with a more illustrative explanation.

I came up with the idea of creating a cartoon about the responses of a therapist, mentor and life coach to the question of how to ride a bike. I hope you enjoy my cartoon!

Background Information

I originally came up with the cartoon idea during the time I did my coaching certification process. I participated in a “Client Game” where there was a suggestion of introducing yourself as a life coach through a joke explaining coaching from a lighter side. This joke idea stuck with as a great way of adding laughter to my website and an alternative explanation of what coaching is.

I conceptualized the comic strip format, Michael Reyman created the final draft of the caricatures, and my web designer Björn Kahlert helped me add the words and the fine tuning for my website.