One of the basic cannons of life coaching is that everything that transpires between you and your life coach be kept extremely confidential. The ethics of the life coaching profession mandate that your life coach not breach the confidentiality of your coaching sessions. This is vital to you as a coaching client.

The initial phase of life coaching, which in essence, continues throughout the entire process, focuses on you unraveling the mystery of you through the mirror reflection of your life coach. You will discover and understand all there is about you and what makes you tick. You will delve into and reveal yourself to your life coach, who will then reflect back to you what he or she learns about you. It is a very revealing and exhilarating process that taps into the many wonders within you that you have either suppressed over the years or did not know existed. This way you become The World’s Leading Expert on You. You will reap the wonders of life coaching BECAUSE you have unleashed the many hidden and suppressed powers within you and you have eliminated the many internal conflicts within you that have drained you in the past.

The discovery process becomes an exploration into you and will touch on all sorts of possibilities that you and your coach will discuss and then you will pinpoint what is true and what is not. You must be able to follow this exploration path freely and openly, without hesitation. If you feel any form of judgment or you have concerns that anyone other than your coach will even know you have discussed these matters, you will undoubtedly restrict this exploration. Normally, you were unable to dig into your inner motivations in the past because of your fears and concerns of judgments, misunderstandings, and possible negative consequences if others knew what you were thinking. So you probably suppressed your desires to discover yourself to comply with what you thought others wanted and expected. You most likely became a stranger to yourself.

The life coaching process discards these burdens and provides you the safe and secure place to open up without hesitation. But the process is very dependant on the absolute trust and honesty between you and your coach. Without this total trust and the complete security that you can operate in full confidentiality, the discovery process will be greatly limited, and you will miss out on unraveling the mystery of you. You will then be much less likely to gain the benefits, if any, from life coaching.

If there is even a possibility that your coaching discussions will not be kept confidential, you will most likely protect yourself by not fully opening up. So you must know and feel that your coaching sessions will always be kept totally confidential, so you can be yourself, without hesitation. This is the only way you will be able to truly see and understand who you really are.

You must be assured that your life coach will not breach your confidentiality in any way, and that they will honor and protect your trust and confidentiality without compromise. If you have engaged a life coach, where there is consideration that confidentiality might even be partially breached, you will want to find another coach. Period. When you know and feel that you will enjoy full confidentiality between you and your life coach and you have connected with the right coach for you, the exploration trips into who you really are and what you really want will be exciting, fun, revealing, and very rewarding. Enjoy your trip!