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

I’m a newly endorsed mind-body coach.  Along with all the mental and health benefits I’ve received from practicing the tools, my coaching practice is filling up. Remarkably I’ve got clients who want to see me week after week.  They are becoming increasingly grateful and complimentary.  Suddenly I’m finding myself with days of back to back clients scheduled.  My confidence and effectiveness as a coach has increased exponentially.  I’m much better at allowing what is for myself and allowing for my inspiring clients too.

This is what I’ve wanted for so long, so why am I feeling so much discomfort along with my newfound success?  Is my body saying no, just as I’m getting what I want?  As I put myself out into the world and coach authentically, the excitement, exhilaration, and contentedness is accompanied by some heavy duty fear.

I’m afraid they will find out I’m a fraud.
I’m afraid that I won’t be good enough.
I’m afraid that I will disappoint them.
I’m afraid that I will screw up and miss appointments.
I’m afraid my kids or the doorbell will interrupt the call and our flow.
I’m afraid I won’t have time to do other things.

As I think about all of these worries, my stomach churns in the form of a writhing worm.  One impulse I feel is to go back and hide, to withdraw.  When I take a moment to breathe, listen to my body, connect and talk to the worm, he has a lot to tell me…

It is not about being perfect and having “arrived”.  This is a lifelong journey and practice.  By not being perfect I show others it’s okay that they aren’t perfect.  In truth we are all totally perfect anyway.

Coaching isn’t about me or how good I am.  It is about connecting clients to their own inner wisdom.  This is their journey.

There are many other amazing mind-body coaches.  If for some reason I can’t help maybe someone else can.  Maybe I’m just not meant to help them.

If I screw up and I will, it will only show that I am human and make mistakes too.  There will be a good reason for each mistake.  I can put systems in place to sync calendars and check appointments each morning.  This will lessen the likelihood of error.

I can schedule appointments when my kids or others won’t be here.   I can leave doorbells unanswered.

I can set my own schedule and work as little or as much as my inner wisdom dictates.

Though I’ve heard and thought of much of this specific wisdom before, this time I know it is true for me. I can feel the truth of it.  After our chat, my worm feels calmer and is resting.  I feel fondness and gratitude toward him.  I know he will be with me for a long time to come.

In this case, the discomfort and fear in my body wasn’t saying no.  It didn’t really want me to go and hide.  My fear was giving me more details about how to be a coach and even practical suggestions about setting up my business and managing my time.

Given my new found knowledge and connection with my discomfort, I’m ready if you need help connecting with your own inner worm or sources of discomfort.  What are they trying to tell you?  I’m curious.

*Thanks to my fellow mind-body trainees and coaching buddies for helping me talk with my worm and face my fear.