Coaching

We start with you, what are your goals, your needs, your yearnings and desires? What are your impossible dreams and what does living at your greatest potential really mean for you?

In coaching we deep dive into powerful questions that open the space for you to let go your resistance and fear of change and discover your courage to really create the inner and outer life you want.

What people say about Clare as a coach

"Clare Russell is a life-changing coach. I worked with her for 6 months and I have since made several giant leaps in my life - some very subtle and some rather huge. Clare holds a space where you can start creating deep versus surface change. I feel like I'm on a new path, thanks to Clare."
Suzy Walker Editor-in-Chief, Psychologies magazine

Inner and outer life mapping

Your coaching sessions will have specific goals, be those in your professional life, home life or the myriad of interconnecting places of relationships, health and life transitions.

It's important to have these focal points shaping your life path in the direction you want to go, and clearly articulating what it is you want is a vital aspect of stepping up and into your dreams and making them a reality.

Yet to achieve these goals also involves uncovering new territories within you, connecting to and nurturing your potential. When you do that, you achieve your goals and more than that, you are fulfilled by these achievements because how and what you achieve flows directly from your wholeness and purpose.

3 principles that guide your inner fulfilment and outer success

In my experience working with women from a diversity of backgrounds and situations, I’ve discovered three principles that are key to finding and living from a total alignment between your inner fulfilment and outer success. They are:

Authentic expression: Your voice and experience expressed in your words, your way. Discovering the confidence to be visible, being you.

Radical wholeness: Feeling and knowing your value and worth beyond the limitation of the ‘perfection illusion’. Embracing your vulnerability with tenderness and being fierce in your compassionate self care for all of you.

Purposeful action: How you Be in the world, (your why, purpose and values) flows directly into what you Do in the world, (how you act, behave and the specific projects and goals you create). You feel your purpose intimately in all that you are creating, and as a result have the motivation, determination and courage to make your dreams a reality.

These principles and the questions they inspire, are lightening rods that create clarity with speed. They show where you might be denying a part of yourself that is actually the next step on your path to achieving your goals. They also bring self awareness and the inner confidence to ‘Be you’ through bringing alignment between your inner experience and outer actions.

When we’re not on track its normally one of these that is missing or ‘dimmed’. For instance:

In your relationships – how can you really create loving, deep relationships without authentically expressing who you are?

In your health – how can you thrive if you only take care of bits of ourselves and ignore others? (for instance the socially accepted imbalance of over giving to your career to the detriment of your physical emotional health)

In your professional life – how can you maintain motivation, enthusiasm and creativity when your doing is disconnected or even feels alienated from your purpose?

Coaching from a Woman’s Perspective

In coaching, I bring my experience and expertise in working with these principles in a women’s body and female perspective. I follow an integrative approach that draws on practices from a wide arena of coaching, mindfulness, somatic, healing and systemic modalities.

Most importantly, I bring my experience of having worked with many women one to one, in circles, workshops and retreats. We are all different, and share a common humanity beyond our gender. Yet also because of being in the body of a woman, we women also share common challenges, experiences and perspectives.

What people say about Clare as a coach

"I came across Clare’s coaching services at a time that I needed help along my journey of rediscovering myself, embracing who I am and in preparing for the next phase of my life to achieve greater things, while still aligning with my hearts desires. Clare is an amazing coach, in the way that she has approached our sessions, her constant support and for the space she provides for being your true self."
Rebecca Jordon

"Working with Clare has been a profoundly transformational and beautiful experience. I have come to fully honour my femininity. My life has taken a new direction, wholeness and purpose. She is deeply intuitive and senses exactly what is right for the moment and the individual. If you feel at all called to work with Clare then go for it. Once you make the commitment and trust your intuition a whole new world opens up."
Keeley Olivia Author of 'the Female O'

Over 10 years I have practiced and studied modalities that are informed by and honor a woman’s perspective. This naturally brings a different approach to my coaching where you’ll:

• Map, feel and sense your way as much as you use your capacity to plan, think and strategise
• Experience and develop your state of flow that holds your drive and strategic capacity
• Learn to trust and hear your intuitive intelligence alongside your rational mind
• Enter into an intimate dialogue with your body and energy system that grounds your beliefs in the living system of your creativity.

Interested to know more about coaching with me?

Drop me a line, let’s have a conversation.

I coach women from many different backgrounds, many are mothers, be that of children and/or pets and/or companies. All are lovers of life, wanting to be the best they can be and create with purpose.

I work with women at key points of transition in their lives, perhaps you recognised yourself as a:

• Women entrepreneur seeking to thrive in both your work and personal life.
• ‘Awakening woman’ going through a key point of life transition with conscious intent to be more true to yourself and bring your dreams into form.
• Professional woman feeling the fire of choosing to lead ‘your way’ in environments where a women’s authentic expression may not yet be fully recognised.
• ‘Healing woman’ going through a physical or an emotional phase of healing in your life.
• Female practitioner wanting supervision coaching to develop your offering for women.

How we work together

The way we work together depends on your coaching focus and needs.

Some women see me regularly over a year period, whilst others might prefer a burst of focused coaching over 6 – 12 weeks to initiate a new stage in their lives, or focus on important goals. I offer in person coaching in Bristol and London, and video coaching sessions.

If you are interested in coaching, email me to set up a free 30 minute coaching session to get clear on your needs and focus, as well as giving an opportunity for you to get to know me and vice versa.