by Andrea Hanson | Articles
It was 2 am and I was lying there, staring at the ceiling. Thoughts were racing a mile a minute in my head. And my whole body was reacting with a tornado of emotions. Frustrated, ashamed, angry, defeated. My brain was cycling through doomsday predictions: “I’m...
by Andrea Hanson | Articles
99.9% of wellness coaches are in business because they’ve overcome something life changing — or someone close to them has. And those wellness coaches — they want to show people who are suffering how to overcome their challenges as well. Okay, I made up that statistic....
by Andrea Hanson | Articles
“So, what do you do?” Hearing this question used to be my worst nightmare. Telling people I was a life coach seemed to elicit either confused looks or the proverbial pat on the head before they moved on. Either way I was pretty sure it was a slightly patronizing...
by Andrea Hanson | Articles
5 Reasons Why Not to Blame Yourself “I don’t know if I should tell you this.” She said. I was intrigued. This person just hired me for 6 months of coaching – and in our first session she was openly considering holding back. “I don’t want to be blamed for...
by Andrea Hanson | Articles
I, like many of us, believed from a young age that I wasn’t as worthy as those around me. Let me be clear – I had a great family. This is not a story of hardship. But like a lot of people, I had a great childhood and still emerged with life-altering...
by Andrea Hanson | Articles
I’m a tough cookie. I’ve always had the brush-yourself-off-and-carry-on mentality. I’m pretty sure I learned it from being the youngest of five children and growing up with a mother from England. That soldier-on mentality has taken me far. But for a long time, I...
