Why work with me
“Minerva is great. Viv is a great listener. 5 stars!”
“I found the meetings valuable in helping me get focused on goals. I highly recommend Viv.”
I have most likely been where you are. I understand the multitude of thoughts and emotions women experience, and too often ruminate over. I am a great ruminater! And recovering procrastinator! Midlife has challenges. Actually, every stage of life has challenges.
I get it.
I have a tremendous capacity for compassion. My education and work path have fine-tuned my compassionate nature. Every position I have held has allowed me the opportunity to utilize and grow this skill. I care about people.
I care about the process of growing older as a woman.
I care about how women spend the hours and days and weeks and years in this very short life we are given. As we reach the midpoint of this life journey, how will the rest of our time be spent?
How do you want to spend the remainder of your time here?
It takes great courage to live on one’s own terms. True to oneself.
Are you doing that right now?
If not, do you yearn to?
Do you long to live unapologetically, following your own values, wants and needs?
Without guilt?
Do you want to speak up about what is important to you, even if people judge, criticize or disagree?
Do you know what is important to you?
Do you think you are too old to have a dream? A passion? A desire?
Do you want to walk through your days knowing that you are in integrity, living YOUR life, not someone else’s?
And when you reach the end of your days, do you want to look back at life with a sense of completeness and peace?
These are important questions, questions I have pondered and dissected in my own life. I have actively shifted my life to better reflect my values, my preferences, my yearnings, my needs. First I needed to understand what those values were, those yearnings. I needed to answer those questions.
I want to help you answer those questions for yourself. I want you to find solutions and act on them in order to live a life that makes you breathe easier, that is aligned with your true Self.
- I support women. I care. I listen deeply.
- I help women get clear about their foggy situation/thoughts/emotions.
- I give space for women to feel safe enough to share what they need to in order to get clear.
- I can walk in the shoes of many.
- I want women in midlife to grow older not regretting a single moment of their lives.
- I want women in midlife to grow older with energy, with strength, secure in their body, mind and soul.
- I want women in midlife to accept their changing needs, bodies, interests, roles.
- I want women in midlife to feel better about growing older.
- I want women to know that they are valued.
- I want women to demand it.
I believe in you. Deeply.
I believe you are capable. Resilient. Brave.
I believe you are a powerful woman.
I believe you matter.
I believe you are an ageless, gorgeous Goddess.
And you can and deserve to live that way.
Now you understand
Just why my head’s not bowed.
I don’t shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud.
When you see me passing
It ought to make you proud.
I say,
It’s in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair,
the palm of my hand,
The need of my care,
‘Cause I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.
– Maya Angelou
I want you to step into your greatness and recognize your phenomenal self. We do not have a lot of time to live our truest selves.
I want you to get there.
My style is down to earth and simple. I am compassionate and caring and conversational with my approach. I listen. Clients feel comfortable with me. They feel understood and heard and validated. They know I am with them, encouraging them on their journey of discovery.
My coaching involves an agreement. Easy to understand, simple and clear. We work together until you believe your work with me is done. I do encourage commitment from clients. Commitment to travel this path of courage and truth. Commitment to live authentically. For your own health and wellness.
Coaching is an investment in one’s well-being. I have utilized a Coach through the years to help me gain clarity and take action on big decisions. My Coach supported me in my process, with compassion, caring and a gentle but firm kick in the butt when needed. That is the job of a Coach. No enabling. Instead, encouraging accountability. Reflecting back one’s thoughts, feelings and beliefs in a manner that creates more clarity, insights, ‘aha’ moments that lead to change.
We work with Coaches because we want to shift something that is not working for us. A Coach helps that shift occur. It is a beautiful process. I loved feeling supported and listened to while I muddled through to a more clear understanding of what I wanted and needed to do.
And I love doing the same for others.
If you are interested in learning more about my Coaching and how it could best serve you and your individual needs, please feel free to contact me. I would be delighted to hear from you!