Reply #20: I was skeptical of "life coaches," myself ... but one REALLY helped a [View All]

relative of mine. I mean, REALLY helped him figure out how to reach his goals and just become a more balanced, happy, focused and ambitious person. He was struggling in his life, career, relationships, and none of us could seem to help him ... it took a stranger -- someone with an outsider's more objective view of his life -- to help steer him in the right direction.

And, though the life coach could probably have continued getting money from my relative for many more months, she told him he'd reached a place where he had benefited as much as he could from life coaching, and he didn't need to work with her anymore (and she was right).

I am a scoffer no more. Life coaching wouldn't be for me, but I can't dismiss it because of this person's good experience. People probably pay a lot more for therapy than he paid for sort of a combo of therapy, pep talk and career advice.