For example, several of the students who started the training in physical pain and limited around activities are now pain-free and actively back to doing what they love. They are able to do daily life essentials that they’ve been avoiding due to pain. Other students who took the training to focus on other areas of mind-body work are experiencing more connection to their inner wisdom, are actively creating art, have lost weight, and are feeling less stress and more relaxation. Fabulous!

In the 2015 Mind-Body Coach Training private Facebook group, the vibe is celebration and fun. It’s amazing to see how delighted everyone is with all they’ve created in their lives throughout the training. They’ve used the mind-body tools on themselves for many months now, and they’ve coached each other regularly. They’ve done a massive amount of inner work with courage, heart, and conviction. They are out there coaching others and bringing mind-body healing to those who need it.

Congratulations, Mind-Body Coach class of 2015! You’ve amazed me at every turn, and I can’t wait to see the work you do in the world.

In light of all this amazingness, I’m taking ideas and feedback from this group of incredible trainees and rolling up my sleeves to get the 2016 training ready! I love spiffing up the training every year, planning new and exciting additions, and doing all the prep work to create an ever-better training each year.

The 2016 Mind-Body Coach Training application process will be opening up in early 2016. If you’re interested in joining us, make sure you sign up here to be notified when the application process is open! I’ll be over here sprucing things up for you and chomping at the bit to open the 2016 Mind-Body Coach Training doors.

Here are a couple stories below!

It’s hard for me to find the exact words that succinctly convey the full impact that this past 6 months in mind-body coach training has had on me. It has been such a gradual, subtle, gentle and under the radar process that during it it could have been undetectable by the untrained eye! A year and a half post-back injury, the discomfort was still there and I was deathly afraid of never being able to exercise or even move without discomfort. Concerns about my back were in my mind all the time, with lots of negative predictions for the future. The mind-body structure that Abigail has created is so gentle and effective, it crept up on me before I realized that I was feeling more ease and relief.

It seems counterintuitive to the “hard work” that I tend to believe is required for healing, but all I can say is it works and I am so grateful to have these skills now. They have changed my relationship with my body and mind, and have allowed me to be fundamentally kinder to myself in general. I highly recommend this approach for anyone suffering from anything.

I feel more in-tune with what my mind-body wants to do, and I AM EXCITED about the prospect of following its flow, from here on. And, supporting others to follow theirs.

– Mara

Abigail’s coach training delivered on everything it promised, and so much more! On a personal level, I’m much easier on myself, I’m less often anxious and stressed, and my relationships feel more intimate and connected. The training also changed my coaching for the better. I now have more confidence in my skills and more trust in my intuition – it feels like I’m coaching from a place of joy and ease rather than effort.

The tools that Abigail has developed, all based in the latest mind-body research, are easy to learn and communicate to clients. Don’t worry if your niche isn’t people with chronic pain or health problems – Abigail’s mind-body approach is powerful medicine for any issue that’s causing suffering in a client’s life.

– Christina Ferrari Muller

by Endorsed Mind-Body Coach, Linda Bayly-Fennell

Once upon a time not that many years ago I was having a nervous breakdown of sorts.  In the healing community they call it a “spiritual awakening.”  I guess that’s supposed to make you feel better?  But it wasn’t anything I wanted to wake up to.  In hindsight I was giving birth to something beautiful and amazing, yet it seemed more like I was delivering an alien beast.  Each day felt like a Dementor from the Harry Potter books had snuck into my life and sucked all the happiness and wellbeing out of me.

I completely lost connection to my sense of humor.  To this silly SNL loving girl who likes to joke around and laugh and play at finding humor even in difficult moments that was excruciating.  It was as if someone had taken all the brightness and color out of my world.  What felt even more depressing was that I knew when things would be funny to me – things people would say that would usually leave me laughing or giggling – but I couldn’t feel it inside. My humor button was frozen on mute.  You would think not being able to feel something would be painless, but that wasn’t my experience.

I would wake up in the mornings and feel like “oh shit, oh shit, oh shit … oh shit.”  I would hear my husband and kids moving about and immediately feel cranky if they were making “too” much noise and feel isolated and left out if they were happy and having fun together.

My body ached. My heart ached. My soul ached.  When I exerted myself for even a short while, taking a walk or cleaning part of the house, I often ended up exhausted for days.  I was convinced I was dying from an undiagnosed deadly form of cancer.  Everything scared me, although I tried to hide it.  You can end up feeling terribly ashamed when you don’t feel happy in this seemingly happy-is-the-best culture.  I believed that I clearly wasn’t doing life right, and the state of my body and psyche were proof of that.

As I look back I have so much love and compassion for my dear suffering self.  I was going through multiple big life transitions.  And as you may know – dang-it – life transitions (even wanted ones) can be a lot like earthquakes.  They easily crack our worlds open and rearrange our lives in ways that are super disorienting.  They often unravel old, no longer helpful structures in our life, like the way society, or our parents, or well-meaning friends say we’re supposed to do things, or the old ways we try to hold our feelings in, or the ways we lash out at ourselves or others that leave us feeling ashamed, and moving away from what we truly want.

In the transition quake, the old ways of being start to crumble around you.  Lord knows it can feel incredibly scary when that happens.  Thankfully around that time I met the brilliant and kind fellow coach, Abigail Steidley.  I worked with her one on one for a bit. That was a much needed balm for my weary soul to say the least.  But it was through her Mind Body Coach Training that I really deeply learned how to lovingly restructure my life in a way that felt nourishing to me, not by following what I thought I should be doing based on the outside world, but by following my own inner guidance system.

In the training I learned how to integrate the magic of my mind, body and spirit wisdom and how to be supported and guided from that place.  I learned how to be curious and kindly listen and respond to myself.  I learned that as a coach, the best way to support and help others is first and foremost to be tuned in and lovingly grounded in who you are.  That as a coach you facilitate others connecting to their inner wisdom and well-being by first being connected to your own.  In other words you, “live it to give it.” I really don’t see how you can truthfully do it any other way.

Thankfully, these days, because of all I’ve learned, I often reflect in wonder and appreciation at the underlying contentment and well-being I feel.  It’s not that my life is never difficult and messy or that I don’t ever struggle or have bad days –  I do – it’s just that I have a much stronger sense of inner knowing that I’m supported by a beautiful vast world full of inner and outer resources; and because of that support, I trust that no matter what comes up, I’ll find my way.

Endorsed Coach – Linda Bayly-Fennell

I am a Mind-Body Coach and a Martha Beck Certified Life Coach. I live in upstate NY with my husband, two elementary school aged kids and our dear and wild Australian cattle dog.

Most of my life I’ve struggled with trying to be the ‘right’ thing … the right person, daughter, friend, employee, mother, wife, coach … whatever it was, I desperately wanted to do it ‘perfectly’ and be ‘good’. Not a fun way to live. It took its toll on my body and wellbeing. Through my coach trainings I learned how to tune in to my own internal wisdom, letting it guide me toward what was right for me. As a coach, I’m here to help you on your journey. My clients appreciate the warm, welcoming, safe space I provide. They also say I’m wise, funny and open…. irreverent and kind.

If you would like to learn more about coaching together, please send me an email or visit my website.