Wellbeing Coach

This excerpt from my book 12 Steps To 1 Hero perhaps best sums up my aims for everyone.

I will help you realise the way to peace of mind, meaning and happiness. This is through making choices that enable a wholly positive manner of living.

When you have your meaning, you will always know happiness.

And everyone is here for an amazing reason!

Consider that we have 70,000 thoughts a day according to the University of Southern California's Laboratory Of Neuroimaging.

That's around 4,000 thoughts every waking hour!

It seems a lot. But anyone who's ever had a "washing machine mind" (especially if it's on fast spin!) will relate to this.

So I'll guide you to listen to the positive thoughts that may well be buried under what seems like a barrage of negative self-defeating ones.

When you listen to positive thoughts, your feelings will be positive too and your behaviour and actions will consequently be beneficial.

You'll feel increasingly energised, life will flow – and doors will open where there used to be walls.

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Everyone is unique of course and as such, after carefully listening, I will offer personal individualised guidance.

This will be whatever will work for each person to enable the swiftest, strongest and most enduring remedy and/or recovery.

For people suffering with mental health problems and/or emotional issues I will help you to see that whatever has brought you to me is actually to help guide you.

It's to direct you to where you need to be going and how you are meant to be growing.

Any mental health or emotional problem is not so you survive it but so that you thrive because of it. Our pain or disturbance is always telling us something, guiding us somewhere that's better for us.

It’s always an inside job. And when you get your inside matching your outside it's the best feeling in the world.

It is to know a life free of such as addiction, anxiety, depression and fear. And so much more than that: it is to have a life beyond your wildest dreams…

I've studied ways of healing the human mind and soul throughout history, from such as ancient myths, spiritual texts and self-improvement speakers to countless self-help books, 12 Steps literature and looking into anything else I think can help.

I’ve written four books so far on mental health issues, spiritual sickness and recovery. These books are not about how to survive such as depression, anxiety and addiction – like the majority of books on these subjects – but they are guides for how to thrive because of these conditions.

They are about how to live the best life you can and be your greatest ideal during your time on this earth.

I look to the 12 Steps recovery programme, a remarkable method of guiding principles for any person – and whatever it is that needs treating, improving or inspiring.

I am also influenced by psychiatrist Carl Jung, self-help author & motivational speaker Wayne Dyer, counsellor and author John Bradshaw, addiction expert Dr Gabor Maté and psychiatrist Dr Peter Breggin.

I will also bring in my own knowledge and experience gained in 20 years of recovery & self-improvement.

And in that time from helping many people thrive to realise meaning, wellbeing and happiness.

Although originally worded to help with alcohol addiction, the 12 Steps have been adapted and proven to work for every addiction – plus I can customise them to work for all emotional and mental health problems or spiritual sicknesses.

The 12 Steps are quite simply the world's most successful therapy ever – having helped millions of people turn their lives around.

They can also give supreme inspiration to people who might be going along well, but who find themselves needing that extra bit of a boost and enthusiasm to try something new, meet difficulties in life or reorganise to a new situation.

You will no longer regret any regrets. Your past can be your vitality for the present and future.

If there are any weaknesses you can turn them into your strengths.

Whatever the method, I'll guide you step by step.

All of this is completely achievable.

Therapy is "treatment to relieve or heal a disorder". I look to completely heal.

This means guiding until you feel together, with your world fully back in order. I'll also show you how to thrive and how to keep increasing this new positive energy.

I'm the author of four books covering all aspects of mental health, emotional issues, and spiritual and personal growth.

Together we can go through one or more of my books to help you. 12 Steps To 1 Hero was specifically written for and is especially useful as a guide in this way.

It shows how you can get back on track. Then go beyond to a place in life that you thought or knew somewhere deep inside was always possible but didn't know how to reach.

And to find just how strong and absolutely brilliant you are.

I will guide you on your very own personal hero's journey. Wherever you are in your life, you will come to realise that you are always stronger than you think.

The word "hero" comes from Greek meaning "protector" or "defender". Finding your hero inside simply means you will be there for yourself and others throughout life.

You will instinctively know the right thing to do at the right time.

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Coaching is when someone qualified to do so offers information that empowers another person to make informed choices that will improve their life.

I firmly believe the best help and guidance comes from someone who's been where you are emotionally, spiritually and physically. In fact, I think it is essential.

This is why I am now grateful for my own personal experiences. I have fully earned the knowledge I have.

Ask the person who’s been down that cold deep dark hole just how they got out and how they then found the sunshine at the top of that mountain peak with spectacular views. Then how they keep it every day.

To my mind that’s always so much more useful than asking the person who’s studied cold deep dark holes, but never actually been down one…

Consequently, I have spent the past 20 years extensively looking into recovery and self-improvement methods throughout history up to the present day. This includes counselling, psychology and philosophy.

For 20 years I've enthusiastically helped a great many people get back on track.

Then rise to become who they can be.

Recovery

If you're struggling with any of these issues I can help you:

– Depression.

– Anxiety.

– Trauma.

– Stress.

– Abuse.

– Anger.

– Parenting.

– Ageing.

– Grief.

– Eating problems.

– Self-confidence/self-esteem.

– Smoking.

– Bereavement.

– Physical health diagnosis.

– Relationships, including abusive ones and/or family issues.

– Codependency.

– Sex issues, including sexless/low sex/sex-starved relationships.

– Separation/divorce.

– Hoarding.

– Body image.

– Job loss/business failure.

– Phobias.

– Domestic abuse.

– Eating disorders.

– Self-harm.

– Alcoholism and all other addictions. (Drugs/substances plus behavioural addictions including gambling, shopping, workaholism, exercise addiction, sex, and relationships.)

Addiction includes to illegal and/or prescribed drugs, love, sex, relationships, codependency, gambling, internet, gaming, shopping, work…

It can be defined as anything that's detrimental to you and/or others but that you cannot seem to stop and stay stopped from doing.

So if I can help you or anyone you know, then I sleep extra soundly at night.

Now if I can turn my own terrible experiences of darkness and subsequent continuous strong recovery into something that helps other people from the dark to return to the light, that's a great thing.

It's my passion, ultimate goal and my purpose.

I have a Diploma (Distinction) in Counselling; and spent a number of years helping establish and counselling for a relationship & mental health charity in the UK; I have experience working at a renowned recovery & rehab centre; and I have written numerous articles for the websites of some of the most exclusive rehab recovery centres around the world.

But most importantly I have been in successful continual recovery since I first looked for help in January 2002.

From then on I have gained an abundance of understanding about mental, emotional and spiritual issues and self-improvement.

If you're suffering, whatever the condition, I know what you are going through. I can help you with it.

Of course, all this is in total confidence.

I am living proof that recovery is not only possible, but that it's possible to absolutely thrive.

Helping someone to realise who they are again – and that they are a unique person here for an amazing reason – that is just wonderful. Along with bringing up my children, it has become my purpose and why I always love to help other people.

It is the best feeling in the world to guide someone to become the person they're supposed to be, to be who they can be – and to find the peaceful place inside.

It warms my heart so much to know that I am fortunate enough to have found the right information with the best emotional and spiritual tools to be capable of doing this.

I really hope to help as many people as possible, using some or all of my books as guidance as well as my own experience and plenty of other information and knowledge.

This is to help people get back on track, and/or gain an extra boost if needed.

And to at all times find meaning and happiness – to always become the person you’re meant to be, the person you really can be.

That is definitely not someone dependent on drink or drugs or another person.

Or someone who's hindered, drained or held back by such as anxiety or depression.

That really makes no sense to me that anyone would be given this amazing gift of life, only to suffer and struggle in this world that is, when you look around, so full of love and of abundance...

Whatever your situation – there is ALWAYS a solution.

We can do face-to-face sessions, or Skype, FaceTime, Zoom, WhatsApp or good old traditional phone calls.

I know it can take great courage to ask for help. But as a writer for 30 years and someone who's been helping other people for 20 years, don't worry about any of this – our conversations will flow fine.

Remember, I once reached out for help too. If I hadn't then I wouldn't be able to help as I can now.

Asking for help is the best thing I ever did. It certainly saved me from years of suffering. It most likely saved my life.

I feel very humbled, grateful and fortunate that I've met some outstanding people and been presented with just the right infromation at the right time.

As a result, I understand the real essence of what this is all truly about.

Please get in touch today for a friendly chat. I can help individuals, couples and families.

I'd really love to help you or someone you care about.

With love,

David.

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