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    Alchemy for the Mind: Create your confident core
    Alchemy for the Mind: Create your confident core
    Alchemy for the Mind: Create your confident core
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    Alchemy for the Mind: Create your confident core

    By Rhian Sherrington

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    In Alchemy for the Mind: Create Your Confident Core, Rhian Sherrington, life coach and behaviour change specialist, draws upon neuroscience, positive psychology and theories of behaviour change to offer a concise and informative way to create and nurture a ‘confident core’ to enable you to succeed and flourish in your life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPractical Inspiration Publishing
    Release dateMay 17, 2014
    ISBN9781910056974
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      Book preview

      Alchemy for the Mind - Rhian Sherrington

      First published in Great Britain 2014 by Practical Inspiration Publishing

      © Rhian Sherrington 2014

      The moral rights of the author have been asserted.

      ISBN (print): 978-1-910056-06-6

      ISBN (ebook): 978-1-910056-07-3

      While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information contained in this book, in no circumstances can the publisher or the author accept any legal responsibility or liability for any loss or damage (including property and/or personal injury) arising from any error in or omission from the information contained in this book, or from failure of the reader to properly and accurately follow any instructions contained in this book.

      Table of Contents

      About the Author

      Dedication

      Acknowledgments

      Contributors

      Part 1: Overview

      1. What is the Confident Core?

      Do You Lack Confidence?

      A Confident Core: Why does it matter?

      A Small Health Warning and a Disclaimer

      2. My Story

      3. Defining Alchemy for the Mind

      How do you view your mind?

      What is Alchemy?

      What is ‘The Mind’?

      Neuroplasticity

      Part 2: Deeper Dive

      4. Creating a Confident Core

      Your Confident Core

      Client Story

      Knowledge

      Self-awareness and Understanding

      Self-responsibility and Choice

      Acknowledge Strengths

      Action

      Behaviour and Habits

      A Word on Behaviour Change

      5. The Mind–Body

      Activating Positive Emotions

      6. A Question of Choice

      Emotional Freedom Techniques and Matrix Re-imprinting

      Sam Neffendorf’s Story

      7. Mind Over Matter

      Nicky Marshall’s Story

      8. Image and Confidence

      Laura Doulton’s Story

      Part 3: Strategies

      9. Strategies for a Confident Core

      Strategy 1: Get clear on what confidence means to you

      Client Story

      Strategy 2: Identify the specifics: Find evidence

      Strategy 3: Name the fear that is holding you back

      Client Story

      Strategy 4: Act As If

      Strategy 5: Be active, eat well and enjoy your appearance

      Strategy 6: Connect to Who You Really Are

      Strategy 7: Practise Being Courageous in Small Things

      Strategy 8: Create Empowering Beliefs

      Strategy 9: Own Your Strengths

      Client Story

      Strategy 10: Cultivate a confident mind-set

      Client Story

      10. Next Steps and Your Invitation

      Resources

      About the Author

      Rhian Sherrington is a Personal Performance Coach based in Bristol, UK. Her passion is enabling professional women to enhance their lives through overcoming procrastination, fear and frustration. Using her perceptive and intuitive approach, clients are able to enjoy newly found beliefs and behaviours that allow them to flourish.

      The information and strategies contained in this book bring together Rhian’s expertise in behaviour change, people management and coaching. She also draws upon her personal journey and the tools she has used to develop her own confident core. Before establishing Choose2Flourish, her coaching and training business, Rhian was a successful senior manager for an environmental charity and has worked as an adviser for the UK Government. Earlier in her career she ran her own expeditions company and taught geography and environmental studies.

      Always the avid learner, Rhian holds a degree from Oxford University, a Masters in Environmental Management and further Diplomas in Personal Performance Coaching, Corporate & Executive Coaching and Training & Development. She enjoys keeping up to date with neuroscience and positive psychology to inform and support her coaching practice. She loves Qi Gong, surfing, and family cycling and walking adventures, especially when they involve picnics in wild and beautiful places.

      Rhian Sherrington

      Choose2Flourish Ltd

      22 West Mall

      Clifton

      Bristol

      BS8 4BQ

      Dedication

      This book is dedicated to everyone out there who suffers from low confidence. Trust that you can build a confident core that will always be there for you, allowing you to flourish, at work, at home, in life.

      It is also dedicated to my children, Murray and Megan. May you always know and believe in yourselves.

      Acknowledgments

      It takes courage to admit to yourself that you want to change your life and improve aspects of yourself. I’ve been lucky enough to work with some amazing clients who wanted to, and have achieved just that. Their stories included here provide a wonderful testament to what can happen when you choose to change what you believe about yourself.

      This book would have remained on my ‘someday’ list if it hadn’t have been for the support and encouragement of my husband Chris. His diligent proofreading improved the flow of my writing and for all those late nights when he was faced with yet more chapters to read instead of heading off to bed, I can’t thank him enough.

      My gratitude also goes to Sam Neffendorf, Laura Doulton and Nicky Marshall for their enthusiasm for, and fantastic contributions to, this book.

      Finally, my eternal thanks to Alison Jones, of Practical Inspiration Publishing, for all her coaching and support in transforming my embryonic idea to a fully-fledged publication. I couldn’t have done it without her.

      Client Confidentiality

      All clients mentioned in this book have had their names changed in order to protect coach–client confidentiality.

      Contributors

      Confidence and Emotional Freedom Technique Sam Neffendorf loves to empower people to overcome the limiting emotional states and self-belief issues that stand in the way of them achieving true freedom and happiness in their life. He is an advanced practitioner of EFT, Matrix Re-imprinting and Birth Re-imprinting and, as a skilled and intuitive listener, is very gently able to support his clients to uncover and move through the blocks that are causing them to feel trapped, victimised or display other recurring limiting patterns. For more information, visit his website: www.freedomhereandnow.com.

      Confidence and Personal Image

      Laura Doulton is passionate about working with women to help them look and feel fabulous, to enable them to reach their full potential and flourish in every sense. She runs an image consultancy based in Bristol offering the following services:

      Colour analysis

      Personal styling

      Wardrobe organisation

      Personal shopping

      She also gives talks for both professional and social women’s networking groups, and runs group workshops.

      Laura Doulton Image Consultancy

      22 West Mall,

      Clifton,

      Bristol,

      BS8 4BQ

      E: laura@lauradoulton.com

      www.lauradoulton.com

      Confidence and State Management

      Nicky Marshall is an author, speaker and mentor. Nicky has combined her finance and accounting background with her training in the wellbeing and stress management industry to create her Discover Your Bounce® programmes.

      Designed to eliminate stress, create wellbeing and encourage a positive attitude in business and life, Discover Your Bounce is available in a variety of formats including Discover Your Bounce in the Workplace for companies. Nicky’s programmes and workshops are informative, inspiring and fun!

      Nicky is passionate about well-being and loves to encourage her attendees to change their lives for the better. For more information and to download her free eBook visit: discoveryourbounce.com.

      Part 1

      Overview

      Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

      Helen Keller

      1

      What is the Confident Core?

      Research indicates that lack of confidence is the biggest factor holding back women in their careers. Why this should be the case is not completely understood, although the influences of social and cultural norms in childhood are likely be contributing factors. How we educate children, the delicate process of building self-efficacy beliefs (e.g. ‘I can do it!’), the impact of personal situations and motivation, all form part of the mix. Whatever the causes, if you feel you lack confidence, you are in very good company. There are a lot of women (and some men) out there who feel the same and this is damaging their careers, as well as affecting the quality of their relationships and other aspects of their lives.

      Do You Lack Confidence?

      Do you ever find yourself wondering why you can feel the most confident woman in the world when speaking with your close friends but when it comes to complaining about something or standing up for yourself in public, you stay quiet and then

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