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Big Vanilla Pasadena Life Coaching

  • “I have fitness and nutrition goals that I want to attain but never quite seem to achieve.”
  • “I’m pretty knowledgeable about eating right, stress management, and exercise, but I can’t seem to figure out how to incorporate what I know into my lifestyle.”
  • “I eat as an emotional support. I know I do this, but I don’t know how to change it.”
  • “A work-life balance? That’s a myth!”
Passion for Life Coaching recognizes that most people struggle to meet their personal needs in this hectic, fast-paced, on-demand society. Passion for Life Coaching is about being passionate about yourself, your health, your work – your life. Life is too short to set aside your interests, be dissatisfied with your work, and feel physically drained and tried. Passion for Life Coaching is a consulting business which offers individual coaching, group coaching and workshops for lifestyle change. Workshops and group coaching are offered at Big Vanilla Athletic Club.

Package Offers:

3-Session “Achieve Your Goals” Coaching Package: $150 3 30-40 minute sessions to help clients define priorities, set SMART goals, and develop a compelling vision that inspires and motivates success.

4-Session “Overcoming Barriers to Weight Loss” Coaching Package: $200 4 30-40 minute sessions to identify emotional eating habits, learn effective stress management techniques, focus on small, attainable behavior changes, and use positive self-talk instead of guilt as a motivator.

Buddy Coaching Packages - Have a workout buddy? How about a coaching buddy?: 2-3 people can purchase the above packages and be coached together.

  • 2 people for the 3-session package: $120 per person
  • 2 people for the 4-session package: $160 per person
  • 3 people for the 3-session package: $90 per person
  • 3 people for the 4-session package: $120 per person
What is coaching? / Workshops for Lifestyle Change / Group Coaching
Emotional Fitness for Lifestyle Change / About Suzette Langley

What is coaching?

What do Olympic athletes, Lance Armstrong, Tiger Woods, Oscar-award winning actors, Grammy-award winning singers, and the Severna Park Flacons Lacrosse teams all have in common? They all work with coaches. They are great at what they do but continue to strive for a higher performance level. So, they rely on a coach’s perspective and communication to make that difference. As legendary NFL coach Tom Landry once said, “A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear, who has you see what you don't want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be.”

Life coaching offers the same opportunities athletes, actors, and singers have but concentrates on your personal and professional development and satisfaction. Coaching provides an objective point of view, keeps you motivated, focuses and re-focuses your attention, distinguishes productive versus unproductive patterns of behavior, and helps you reach goals faster.

Live the Life You Want
Life coaching is a powerful process of discovery, learning, action and accountability. Through coaching, you define how you want your life to be and then take the steps to make it happen. Coaching helps you be more satisfied and more effective personally and professionally. It helps you stay focused on what’s important to you, make better choices and follow through on commitments. It helps you see yourself with a sense of appreciation.

Common areas of focus include:

  • Health/Wellness/Self-care
  • Work-Life Balance
  • Life Transitions (marriage/divorce/midlife)
  • Time Management
  • Stress Management
  • Relationships/Social Life
  • Organization
Gain perspective. Get the results you want. Achieve your goals faster. Be confident. Be happy. Be healthy. Love your life!

Workshops for Lifestyle Change

Photo of one of a Lifestyle Change Workshop. Workshops are designed to address a specific issue and provide tools for dealing with that issue. Workshops are generally 1 hour in length and can be presented in person or via teleconference. Examples of workshops that have been presented include:

  • Find Time to Eat Well and Exercise
  • Exercise Your Emotional Fitness – Improving your self-care
  • Create Your Vision of Success – Setting S.M.A.R.T. goals
  • Weight ... I'm Not Ready – Overcoming roadblocks to weight loss
  • Seize the Day – Taking action today for long-term success
  • Life in Shades of Gray – Redefining categorical thinking
Group Coaching

Group coaching is an effective way to achieve your goals. Groups share knowledge and energy, provide support, and increase productivity and accountability. Participating in coaching groups helps you achieve personal goals in less time with the support and encouragement of your peers. It is an amazing and powerful experience! Two minds are truly better than one.

Groups are comprised of individuals trying to achieve similar goals. For example, those increasing awareness of personal choices and values or women trying to establish and maintain regular workout schedules. Groups are usually 6-8 weeks in duration. New group members are not admitted after the second week.

Emotional Fitness for Lifestyle Change

Addressing your Emotional Fitness through coaching helps you break out of the diet mentality. The Emotional Fitness Coaching focuses on assisting you to make lifestyle changes you can attain and maintain. Coaching uncovers attitudes, habits and behaviors that prevent you from succeeding in weight loss. You learn to manage your emotions, stress and time effectively so these are no longer barriers to success. You build self-confidence and self-esteem as you learn to trust yourself to make the best choices for you and your body. Emotional Fitness Coaching helps you put yourself first, set attainable goals, and holds you accountable to action.

Imagine making healthy changes that become part of who you are. Imagine never needing to diet again. Coaching offers the way to improve your Emotional Fitness - change your body by changing the way you think.

Here are some specific issues Emotional Fitness Coaching addresses:

  • Stress eating – Eating to cope with stress. Or, not eating when you are stressed.
  • Food as a celebration – Food is connected to celebrations, birthdays, weddings, graduations. What other ways can you celebrate?
  • Food as self-medication – You had a horrible day and make yourself feel better with a pint of ice cream.
  • Categorical thinking – Believing that some foods are “good” and others are “bad”. If you are on a diet, and eat a “bad” food, you believe you have ruined everything so you eat whatever you want.
  • Extreme self-criticism – Continuously running a negative narrative of why you are not good enough. Extreme self-criticism creates hopelessness. Taking action when you feel hopeless can be very difficult. Furthermore, if you cannot treat yourself kindly and consider yourself worthwhile, why are you worth the investment of many months effort to lose weight?
  • Living in the past or future – Focusing on what you weighed 10 years ago or how great life will be when you lose 30 pounds does not address the action you need to take today.
  • Fear – Of change. What if I can’t reach my goals? What if I can’t keep the weight off? What if my relationships change? What if I am more powerful than I thought?
Emotional Fitness Coaching for Lifestyle Change focuses on examining these roadblocks and developing actions to overcome them. Most importantly, you will learn how to meet your emotional needs by discovering ways to take care of yourself with reckless abandon without food. This approach focuses on taking action today to make lifestyle changes that will build on each other and ultimately help you reach your weight loss, nutrition, and fitness goals. Take this quiz to see if you are ready to address your Emotional Fitness!
  • Do you use food to cope with emotions such as stress, anxiety, or sadness?
  • Do you use food to reward yourself for your accomplishments?
  • Do you approach your diet in extreme terms (You are either “on” or “off” a diet.)?
  • Do you make extreme changes in diet or exercise that are difficult to sustain for a long period of time?
  • Are you more critical of yourself than you would be of anyone else?
  • Are you afraid of what changing your habits may mean about how you will eat and who you will be?
  • Do you worry about being able to maintain your weight loss?
  • Are you looking to the future “when I lose 25 pounds” but not taking action today to make it happen?
  • Are you ready for Emotional Fitness Coaching?
About Suzette Langley

Suzette Langley, Life Coach.

Suzette Langley
Life Coach
Passion for Life Coaching

Suzette Langley holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Pittsburgh and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was the Chief Social Worker of the Eating Disorders Clinic at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for 3 years.

Suzette is a graduate of the Institute for Life Coach Training and a member of Coachville. She entered the coaching profession in order to support clients in identifying and attaining their personal vision of success. She focuses on helping clients move from possibility to reality through goal setting and action evaluation.

Suzette is an empathic listener who is honest and straightforward in holding her clients to a high level of accountability. She provides valuable perspective on situations and upholds clients’ potential even when they have difficulty seeing it for themselves. Her clients appreciate her nonjudgemental approach and sense of humor. Above all, Suzette instills a strong sense of self-worth and possibility in her clients.

Suzette is a member of the Severna Park Chamber of Commerce, Severna Park Jaycees, and On Purpose Networking. She regularly writes a column on coaching-related topics in the Severna Park Voice. She has written several articles for On Purpose Magazine which is published in the Greater Baltimore area. Suzette is a published author. She contributed to The Best Ways to Erase Stress in 15 Minutes or Less by Joanna Brandt and girlfriends, available at http://www.lulu.com/content/507233.

Originally from the Midwest, Suzette now resides in Annapolis, MD with her husband and 2 American Eskimos. She enjoys outdoor activities, gardening, reading, fitness classes, cooking, and baking. She loves to travel when the opportunity presents itself. Two of her core beliefs are finding strength in adversity and creating a “family” made up of life-long friends.

If you have questions about life coaching or any of our workshops, please call Suzette Langley at 410-757-7326 or email passionforlifecoaching@verizon.net

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Last updated on November 28, 2007.

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