My Life Coaching practice is all about you, my clients. It is all about finding out what kind of life you want, how to get it and making sure you get there.
Clients work with me to:
Make important decisions in relationships, career, business
Build Their own business their way
Turn Dreams into Reality
Have inner peace
Remove emotional obstacles
Reduce stress
Communicate more authentically.
Recover from divorce, job loss, grief, domestic violence, financial loss and other adversities of life.
After working with me, they:
Have more inner peace
Reconnect to their authentic voice
Communicate more honestly
Create the lives they want
Find their passion and purpose in life
Have more calm and abundance
Make authentic decisions daily
Have positive Emotional Habits
Coaching Packages
For a quick start to Coaching try:
Four Session Package
• Four 60-minute sessions
• Deep dive into specific goals
• Identify and breakthrough obstacles
• Find Values, Passion and Purpose for Life
For those who wish to dive deeper:
Design Your Life Package
12 60 minute sessions
Identify and breakthrough emotional patterns that keep you from your goals
Goal setting
Accountability to achieve goals
Awareness of breath, body, and mind for stress reduction, clarity, and calm.
Learn to take responsibility for all actions and make choices in alignment with values, passion, and purpose
Find your authentic voice to determine what you really want from your career, relationships, and life.
Create life-long tools to navigate life’s pressures so you can stay on track with building a life of personal purpose
All of my coaching packages start with a free, 30-minute introductory call.
Book Your Introductory Call https://calendly.com/coachsusygiddy or e-mail susy@cabaretelifecoaching.com
Why Me?
I know what it is like to have a dream and make it come true! I have had many dreams come true in my own life. I have for many decades been married to the love of my life. I dreamed of owning an Indoor Tennis Club and for ten proud years, I did just that. On a trip to the Carribean, I fell in love with the Dominican Republic and a few years later another dream came true when we moved to Cabarete, Dominican Republic, a happy, crazy beach town on the North Coast of the Dominican Republic. At the moment, I live, along with my husband, cat and somewhat famous Rescue Dog Ruffus, in a mountainside Chalet at my favorite Ski Hill, Mont Tremblant, Quebec, yet another dream come true. I know what it takes to make dreams come true.
I also know what it is like to face tragedy and adversity. I have experienced some of the worst of what life can bring, the tragic death of my little brother at 14 years, the loss of my first marriage to domestic violence leading to divorce and single motherhood, the death of our son from brain cancer, a near-fatal car accident, that broke my husband’s neck. I know what it takes to recover from grief and loss and still find the way back to a joyful life.
As a Certified Life Coach, I am trained with many tools and skills to help you find your best life. Whether that is to follow your passion and make your dreams come true, your own version of your best life. Or to help you recover from the grief and loss that life has brought your way. I can help. Together we will find ways to get you the life you want. We will find what blocks you, establish new emotional habits, set goals and achieve them.I will celebrate you and champion your success.
A few of the successes my clients have had are, finding the loves of their lives, leaving unfulfilling jobs, starting successful businesses, moving to a new country, becoming physically and emotionally fit, balancing work/life/family, finding new friends and reducing stress in their lives. My clients have also recovered from domestic violence, divorce, death of a child, financial losses, health scares and returned to their lives, with more peace and clarity than ever before.
Please check my Blog for www.allaboutresiliency.com for articles and tips.
Together, we can get you the life you want.
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On the last day of 2018, my husband asked me, ” What would you like to do today Sweetie?” A question he asks often. Upon reflection, I replied with an answer he does not hear very often. ” Stay in my Pyjamas all day”. I replied. I put on my cute flannel PF’s decked out with skier bears and bunnies and had a great day. It was restful, creative, restorative and fun. Somehow, by staying in my pyjamas all day, I was signaling to myself, that this was a day of doing only what I wanted to do, I mean I wasn’t going to go outside in my PJ’s or visit or work, no I only did what I wanted to do.
For me wearing my PJ’s all day signaled a gentleness, an about me mode, a sit down and watch movies in the middle of the afternoon and read a book kind of a day. Here is the thing, I woke up today on New Year’s Day, full of energy, enthusiasm and excitement for the new day and the New Year!
As I reflect on my Pyjama Day, I realized that for me it was like pushing the Pause Button, I didn’t even know I needed or wanted a pause, but spending the day in my PJ’s gave it to me.
Wonder what would be your pause button? Would love to hear your thoughts.
Wishing each and every one of you the most glorious and prosperous New Year.
My friend Colin Williams has shown such patience, resiliency determination and persistence, after losing his hearing, he is a true inspiration. This lifelong musician, lover of playing his guitar, singing strumming his ukelele along with his loving wife Jackie, lost his hearing and could no longer play his music, or even carry on conversations. I watched helplessly as our friends became more and more isolated in the silence.
When I asked Colin to talk to me about how he managed to be so Resilient, he answered with surprise, ” Me Resilient, why would you say that?” This talking was done using his phone, that wrote what we were saying, because he couldn’t hear me. Well, my friend, because you have persevered, been patient, determined all the qualities of Resiliency, you are a 100% perfect example of it! In the end, I decided along with his wife Jackie Williams and step daughter Catriona Blackburn to tell his story!
For me along with the patience, determination and never giving up, the amazing thing to watch and witness in Colin was, the way he converted his artistic energies and talent from music, to water color paintings. These paintings are beautifully done, with a keen eye for detail, an ability to capture the essence of the objects, and an expression of the Colin sees the world.
Colin may have lost his hearing and ability to play beautiful music, but he converted that loss to stunning paintings and showing us all how to be Resilient in the fave of great adversity.
My stepdad has been painting after losing his hearing and ability to make music…
Colin, my stepdad, has been a musician all his life but lost his hearing almost completely. My parents lived in Dominican republic and came back to England to get healthcare. He is currently recovering from surgery and might be able to play his guitar again! Please show your appreciation for his amazing paintings of Ravenglass – Cumbria UK. FP edit; My mum Jackie, and Col my stepdad, documented their adventures in blog and book form – https://www.sailblogs.com/member/colinjackie Here is one of my favourite songs by Colin – https://youtu.be/Ca2aX9R8Llg Send me classic motorbikes and dogs 🙂
Resiliency: Why do we need it? Have you ever noticed that challenges just pop up in life? We are going along our path, what ever that may be and often out of nowhere, like a pot hole on a country road, pops up a challenge! Could be relatively small, phone dies, bank card doesn’t work, friend doesn’t show up, computer crashes, little pot holes. Get a series of these in one day and they feel like bigger pot holes.
And than there are the bigger potholes of life, the ones like death, divorce, illness, heart break, job loss, the ones that can stump us, the ones that stop us in our paths. Potholes, no matter their size need to be navigated, so that we can continue down the paths of our lives. The tools that we use to get around, past or through these potholes are what make up the quality of Resiliency. It is what keeps us from getting stuck in the pothole, it is what finds a way around the losses and back to our life. It is patience, determination, courage, persistence, a quality of character that all say, ” this will not stop me, I will get there, no matter what”.
I like to give the example of my dog Ruffus. He was abandoned by his owner on the beach. He got up one day, and his owner had left him homeless, without shelter, food or water. I can imagine this was a BIG pothole for Ruffus. He showed such great Resiliency, he showed determination, patience, persistence, he had the quality of character, he never gave up, until he found a family and a home, with us! He found a way to have food by going to people and restaurants and looking hungry, he found a way to have water by learning where the outdoor faucets were, he found shelter by finding abandoned spaces. He tried to befriend many, many , many people, some shooed him away, some patted him, some fed him, but no one gave him what he wanted, but he was not deterred, he was persistent and he kept looking until he found us! This is Resiliency and this is why we all need it!
The 1% Principle helps us deal with adversity. It is so easy to become overwhelmed when faced with adversity. We are not at the top of our game. Maybe we are in a lot of pain, maybe we have too much to deal with and don’t know where to start, maybe the to-do list is way too long, maybe it seems like it will never end. Whatever it is for you in this moment. We just want it to be over and get to a better place, right? This is where we need The 1% Principle.
One night, a couple of years ago, I was in extreme back pain and it was intolerable. I just did not know how to cope; it felt like it was going to go on forever! My husband said, “Try to find one position for one minute that is comfortable”. What great advice! I found one position and could lie there for one minute and by stringing the one minutes together, I made it through the night and eventually, out of back pain.
That is when I started to think about ‘The 1% Principle’. The antidote to overwhelm is action and as it turns out 1% action is enough to feel better! After our accident, with a long and uncertain outcome to a broken neck, I would long for life to be “Back to normal”. With having a husband with a broken neck and being traumatized with sores all over my body, I just wanted to run with my husband like always. Although happily, that turned out to come true but it was certainly not the case at the time. I learned to apply The 1% Principle. What did that mean? What did it look like? As far as running went, it meant going out the door of the cottage, walking around the yard, taking Ruffus for a slow walk for two minutes and then five. It meant feeling better because I could walk a few minutes, it was 1%.
The funny and great thing about The 1% Principle is the return on the investment! By that I mean, for 1 % effort quite often you feel 100% better. After spending time in the hospital with our son while he was dying, we would leave each day and go for a walk in the park with Ruffus. It was something we could do, it was our 1%. Of course it did not cure the brain cancer, but we always finished our walks feeling better than when we started.
When Ruffus was an abandoned beach dog, I am pretty sure he applied the 1% Principle frequently. He knew that he needed to do everything he could to find a new family and home. He also knew that by getting a drink of water at the sprinkler or a meal from friends on the beach he would feel better, The 1% Principle, on his journey out of adversity!
The next time you feel overwhelm coming, try applying The 1% Principle. What is that one thing you can do, even if it is for 1 minute that will make you feel better? Just try it!
