• Why Janet?
• Focus: living with illness
• Focus: relocation
• Focus: parenting
• About Janet

Special focus: living with illness.

I coach people with illness, and also offer coaching to their families and friends. Living with an illness can modify your whole world and the people in it. Discovering that someone you love has a health problem and/or a terminal illness presents enormous challenges to everyone involved.

For many people illness, death and dying are taboo subjects and reactions to grief can lead people to isolation and sometimes clinical depression. Family and friends frequently are at a loss of how to react, communicate and support the ill person.

People who are ill or dying face emotional and practical challenges, including:

• Grief and moving through the stages of denial, anger, bargaining, depression and finally acceptance;
• Alienation and isolation;
• Loss of identity to the illness;
• Loss or change in social relationships;
• Day-to-day logistical difficulties;
• Difficulties in having real, honest communication and emotional expression; and
• Acceptance of the present moment and the uncertainty of the future.

Coaching can help create a plan for support, communication and action by everyone involved during this difficult journey. The goal of coaching a person who is ill is to assist them in recognizing a purpose, choice and presence of her/his own making.

Coaching will benefit you if you are:

• A person with an illness who wants to feel that you have say in what is happening to you and want to communicate more effectively with your family and friends. As your coach I will listen, talk about the illness and its impact on your physical and emotional life and help you to understand and communicate your concerns and desires.
• A friend or family member of someone who has an illness and who wants to be supportive of the people involved. You may need emotional support to deal with the ill loved one or the transition within the family and social framework.