Did you know a life coach can support you with health and wellness goals? Read more about it in today's success story from a TCC Client.

Mary was 53, a part-time consultant, and mother of two children. She contacted The Coach Connection to find a life coach to support her with creating a lifestyle that would help her reach optimal health. 

Here's is Mary's letter to us:

"To The Coach Connection:

Thank you so much for introducing me to my TCC Coach. She has been a wonderful coach, assisting me in just the right way. Throughout our coaching sessions and e-mails, she was always supportive, enthusiastic, encouraging and insightful, offering many helpful suggestions.

My goal was to increase my health, by exercising regularly and eating more healthfully. I have always exercised some and eaten reasonably well, but I have, in the past, had trouble sticking with my program consistently. I would be fine for about 6 weeks, and then gradually let it go.

With my coach's encouragement, I promised myself I would walk, lift weights and stretch every single day for 11 months (through the first summer, continuing until my children got out of school the following summer). I am now less than two months away from hitting the eleven month mark and am going strong. Checking in with my coach, at first weekly, then biweekly, then monthly, kept me on track. As I became stronger and less self-sabotaging, I appreciated her flexibility in spreading out our sessions, as I felt more time between sessions was appropriate. My TCC Coach talked through with me strategies to keep going when I went on vacation or traveled, as well as coping with my own self-sabotage.

I now feel extremely strong in and committed to my goal of exercise. I believe I will maintain my regimen, perhaps in modified form, for the rest of my life. Diet was harder but I have made great strides there as well. Along the way, I have added other goals -- de-cluttering the entire house, entertaining more, and others -- all of which, I am making great progress toward achieving. I credit my TCC Coach with giving me such a good start down this road. I still consider her part of my support group, even though we no longer have a formal coach-client relationship. I know that if I become stuck and begin to falter, I can always contact her and she will be there with encouragement and words of wisdom.

Thank you for your service and your website. I never would have hooked up with my TCC Coach on my own. Yet, she has contributed substantially to the quality of my life.

Best regards,
Mary"