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NOELLE
GOGGIN
“ Finding Your Voice”
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NLESS WE ACTIVELY SEEK OUT alone time, communication is paramount to getting pretty much anything done and having happy relationships.
Communication is after all, how we connect with others. We can connect
in many different ways and at different levels but it is communicating with others effectively, that makes us flourish or failing to do so, flop.
About a decade ago, part of my story was losing my voice. Not in a complete non-communicative way but certainly in a back-teeth clamped together, feeling numb, overwhelmed and‘ can’ t get the words out’ way. It became a shut-down place of not being able to put words on thoughts, fears and emotions that were running amuck.
That story is long over through years of personal growth and change. Today, my work as an empowerment coach is often helping my clients express what they need to, but haven’ t been able to. We’ ve many voices in our heads( others opinions, conditioning from family and upbringing, society, roles that we adopt etc) and it can take quiet a bit of work, as I found on my journey too! to find YOUR voice. Finding your voice is learning to listen, to often what’ s not expressed and then having the space to be brilliantly honest with ourselves and say it out loud!
As an empowerment coach, this is where I find my clients have the break-through’ s. Moments of clarity. Big A-Has. Truths. Inner knowing’ s and feelings coming to the surface. Answers coming forth with resounding confidence.
But as any coach and healer knows, you create that space for the client. It’ s essential that you are clear in your own voice and communicating with the client as you set the tone and create the space for them to explore.
Anyone who is a leader of a tribe must do that – lead. To lead others, you need to not just have a grand vision, you need to be able to communicate it clearly. Express your beliefs, what you stand for, what lights you up, where your boundaries lie.
Being the leader – whether it’ s a client or a tribe – creates
“ an amazing testimonial here by someone that really cares about me and what i do.” @ youarethebest, the moon LIFEGRID MAGAZINE | LIFEGRID. COM. AU MARCH 2017