Session one...
It takes most clients a few sessions to feel safe enough to be open and vulnerable with their coach, but this was not the case with Ruby! Ruby had booked some coaching sessions with me, saying she wanted to set some new goals after having recently had her first child. It sounded quite straightforward.
In the first half hour, I felt I knew everything about Ruby – her background, her sex life, her bad habits, her mistakes, and her failings. She was amusing and self-deprecating, but it troubled me that she seemed to have few personal boundaries, and she was sharing all her vulnerabilities and none of her strengths.
I wondered to myself, ‘If this
