Vitalis Coaching & Therapy Blog by Karin Peeters
What different types of life coaches are there and how to choose the right specialisation for you?
This is the ultimate guide to find your way around many different Life Coaching types, styles, approaches and specialisations. Let’s help you get an overview and make an empowered, informed decision about the type of Life Coach that is right for you.
What is Polyvagal Theory and the Autonomic Ladder? A thorough explanation of how your body responds to stress - and what you can do about it.
How does your nervous system work and how to self-regulate your fight, flight, fawn, flop and freeze responses with the help of Polyvagal Theory.
Is a Life Coach really worth it? Benefits, pitfalls, & why a friend isn't a Coach
Considering hiring a Life Coach? This is a must read. Discover the benefits, often overlooked pitfalls and why it’s not the same as talking with a friend.
Life Transition Coaching: How to navigate major life change with clarity and confidence?
Find out how to navigate major life events with clarity, compassion and confidence — revealing the deeper alignment and hidden inner gifts within times of change.
How to overcome conflict avoidance? Nine ways to stop being afraid to argue.
Avoiding conflict may feel like the easy way out, but in reality, it often leads to long-term dissatisfaction and emotional stagnation. Embracing confrontation with compassion, awareness, and patience can pave the way for stronger, more resilient relationships.
What is the Parent Adult Child Model (PAC) model in Transactional Analysis?
Taking time to become our own nurturing parent for our inner child is so vital. This model helps to improve our relationship with ourselves and others, enhances our communication and frees ourselves from unhelpful patterns.
What is your Life Script (Transactional Analysis - TA), how is it formed and how to rewrite it?
Understanding your life script, injunctions (prohibitions) and drivers (behavioural sign posts), and making conscious redecisions is vital for a healthy, authentic life. Includes four ways to rewrite your own script.
Don’t really enjoy spending time with your parents, even though they aren’t terribly unkind in any obvious ways? This is why, and how to improve your relationship.
There may not necessarily be anything particularly traumatic or 'toxic', but rather we just don’t have the flow and ease with our parents that we’d like. Learn ways to improve your communication and relationship today.
Quiet your inner critic with mindful journal prompts and Life Coaching exercises
Enjoy these simple yet profound mindful writing exercises to silence your inner crtitc, manage anxiety and cultivate a compassionate inner voice.
Is people pleasing affecting your relationship, and what can you do about it?
Let’s explore what lies at the root of this sometimes lovable, sometimes infuriating, trait and what can we do about it if we want to break free of people pleasing patterns and enjoy relationships on more equal terms.
My adventure of being short-listed for a TEDx Talk
I’ve been on a big journey, applying for a TEDx Talk, being short-listed and preparing for the audition… and here I am to share the outcome and gifts from this adventure.
Assertiveness: speaking up for yourself with assertive, yet compasssionate communication
What does assertiveness mean, and how to speak up for yourself in a way that isn’t agressive but is kind to yourself and the other?
How to overcome self-doubt?
There are times when, despite our best efforts, that harsh voice in our heads shows up and chips away at our confidence, sowing those niggling seeds of uncertainty and misgiving. Let’s understand more about the roots of self-doubt and ways to approach it with compassion.
Slowly does it during the winter months
Feel the tendency to withdraw over winter and experience a lower mood, wondering if you suffer from winter depression? Let’s explore Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and find out how to naturally embrace slowing down pace in winter.
A walk-through of the model of Non-Violent Communication so you can have those difficult conversations without stomach ache!
How often have you walked away from a conversation feeling frustrated, unheard and misunderstood, where things maybe got unintentionally personal and you wish you had responded differently? NVC guides you through difficult conversations with confidence and ease.
Festive Burnout - what to do when Christmas creates stress, anxiety and overwhelm?
Does the thought of Christmas exhaust you? Here we are offering some very practical things to do in the moment should you become overwhelmed.
You have needs - and they really matter!
Discover what drives you and learn how having an intimate understanding of your needs is crucial to being able to communicate in a way that fosters greater potential for resolution of conflict and harmony.
What is Online EMDR Therapy?
What is Virtual EMDR Therapy, how does it work and how can it help you process those distressing (or traumatic) memories? So you can stop worrying that a wave of old emotions take over and impact your sense of freedom, safety and joy in the moment.
RAIN by Tara Brach: a path to radical Self-Compassion
Embrace the RAIN: A four step path to radical Self-Compassion and emotional balance by Tara Brach.
CBT Thought Record Diary: How to recognise and reframe your intrusive negative thoughts?
How to recognise and reframe your intrusive negative thoughts? An explanation with free download of the powerful tool of a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Thought Record to overcome your unhelpful thinking patterns.