The Genius of Brooke Castillo’s Self Coaching Model
I discovered Brooke Castillo, as I do so many great authors and speakers, through The Lively Show, Jess Lively’s podcast. Jess is a brilliant interviewer and always had fascinating guests on her show.
I find lots of goodness through her podcast but rarely go too deep into the guest's work. I only have so many hours in the day to read and listen, so I try to limit it to a few key people.
Well let's just say Brooke has taken over many of those hours.
Her two interviews on The Lively Show led me to Brooke's own podcast, The Life Coach School Podcast, which is full of so much goodness around managing thoughts, feelings and creating the life you want.
Brooke's main principles are represented in The Self Coaching Model, which I’m now trained in.
Firstly I love the Model because it, of course, implies you can do it for yourself. Secondly, it is genius and completely obvious and difficult and mind-blowing and crazy hard all at the same time.
THE SELF COACHING MODEL
The Model outlines the following (and excuse the slightly dramatic examples but they're good to illustrate the cycle):
Circumstances are FACTS and everyone must agree on them being facts. e.g. I lost my job, I weigh X, I write this blog.
Thoughts are subjective and are sentences we think about our circumstances. e.g. I am hopeless, I am overweight.
Feelings are vibrations (yes, just vibrations) in our body that result from our thoughts e.g. depression or guilt.
Actions are how we respond to our feelings e.g. Stay inside all day, eat a tub of ice cream.
Results therefore come from the preceding actions e.g. I remain unemployed, I gain more weight.
It may seem obvious but Brooke teaches that our thoughts really do create our reality and our thoughts are not necessarily the truth – they are just an interpretation of our circumstances.
As she said on The Lively Show,
“The world cannot cause our emotions. Our emotions are always caused by what we think.”
Pretty amazing right?
So whatever situation you find yourself in – positive or negative – it is a result of the thoughts and therefore feelings and actions that you have created about a circumstance.
Brooke teaches that when we can learn to observe our thoughts, rather than take them as the absolute truth, we can really begin to create the day to day and ongoing life that we want – because we are in control. No one else. Awesome right?
Try a Self Coaching Model for yourself now on something that’s bothering you in life.
And if you’d like to work through your Model with a Life Coach School Certified Coach (me!), you can book your free session here.