Hello! I’m Maria…
I’ve spent the better part of my career doing the same thing in different rooms: asking the questions that cut through, listening for what’s underneath what’s being said and helping people find the story they didn’t know they were carrying.
My background is in journalism and writing, and that training gave me something I use every single day: the ability to sit with someone and work out, fairly quickly, what is actually going on versus what they think is going on! Journalists learn to read a room, to hear the gap between what someone is saying and what they mean and to keep asking until the real thing surfaces. It turns out that skill translates almost perfectly into the work I do now.
Over the years I’ve built on that foundation with training in mentoring, coaching, NLP and hypnosis.
I kept encountering the same problem in the people I was working with.
The issue was almost never on the surface. It wasn’t that someone didn’t know how to write, or didn’t understand their market or lacked ideas.
The block was always deeper than that, sitting somewhere underneath the conscious, rational mind where logic and good advice can’t quite reach.
NLP and hypnosis work at exactly that level: they’re ways of having a direct conversation with the part of you that has been running a particular programme for years, sometimes decades, often without your awareness. When you can get in there and actually examine what’s driving the behaviour, things shift in ways that talking alone often cannot do – and then you can start unblocking yourself and making the changes to let your creativity flow.
My job is to help you find that story, examine it honestly and decide whether it’s one worth keeping.
This is what I mean when I talk about unblocking.
It’s not a positive thinking thing and it isn’t a motivational process. It’s a genuine piece of investigative work! We starting looking honestly at what patterns are operating, where they came from and whether they still make sense for the life you’re trying to build. Most people who come to me have already tried the rational approach.
The block exists precisely because knowing isn’t enough and the thing in the way isn’t logical. Getting past it requires working differently and that’s where the combination of coaching, NLP techniques and hypnosis becomes genuinely useful rather than just interesting.
What I’ve learned across fifteen thousand hours of working with writers and business owners is that the thing stopping most people has almost nothing to do with talent or ability or the right strategy. It nearly always comes down to a story they’ve been telling themselves for so long that they’ve stopped questioning whether it’s actually true.
My job is to help you find that story, examine it honestly and decide whether it’s one worth keeping.
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UNBLOCKED
Hashtags, handles, reach, engagements… Yes, I’d heard of them all! I just didn’t understand them. Fast forward to today; I happily collate thoughts, musings, photos, memes and whatever else I fancy and creatively be myself WHILST engaging with MY audience. It is no longer something that I SHOULD do to create business, something that I HAVE to do to stay in business or something that I MUST do in order to stay current! It is simply a way for me to show up, as ME… I don’t have to force anything anymore or need to know/be familiar with every single angle. Because with your guidance and gentle kick up the behind, every now and then, I only have to concentrate on being me!
Geraldine Lyons, Personal Development & Well-being Coach – Breaking Beyond