Extreme fatigue and burnout come with physical, mental, and emotional challenges, which you do not need to face alone. Coaching offers ways to transition from feeling stuck to coping and ultimately thriving again. Create a life full of enjoyment, fulfilment, with purpose and spark, even if this is a different life from what you were living before.
The causes of fatigue are extensive, from modern-day stress, burnout, hormonal changes, and a vast array of medical conditions. You may struggle with a diagnosis of dysautonomia, POTS, long COVID, ME/CFS, or another chronic illness.
Extreme fatigue can lead to a range of physical symptoms, affecting various parts of your body, including brain fog. You might find yourself unable to sleep, despite overwhelming tiredness, or being able to sleep, but not waking up refreshed.
Fatigue can impact your overall wellbeing in various ways, including self-esteem and relationships—with both yourself and others. Whether you’re dealing with stress, anxiety, or other challenges in your energy-depleted state, fatigue and burnout coaching can provide valuable support.
You can choose to work with me one-to-one on your own self-devised goals, or explore one of my coaching programmes:
-Pacing For Fatigue Management
-Burnout to Balance Programme
Coaching for fatigue management is about helping you to increase your positive feelings and improve how well you function. It's about boosting your energy levels and wellbeing, which is your overall satisfaction with life.
Coaching is a client-centered process to help and empower you, as the client, to achieve self-determined goals related to your health and wellbeing. Coaching isn't about me telling you what to do. Instead, it's about me helping you to identify your resourcefulness, skills, and strengths. From this you can decide what actions to take to achieve your desired goals, based on what is aligned with your values, beliefs, and preferences. If there is limiting beliefs or potential obstacles, you can overcome these through coaching.
As an NLP Coach, I utilise Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) tools because they offer a powerful approach to enhance both your health and energy levels. By communicating with your subconscious mind, where thoughts, beliefs, and behaviours are primarily encoded, you can achieve rapid and lasting improvements. NLP provides techniques for rewiring your brain and regulating your nervous system, ultimately helping you attain the energy levels necessary to create the life you desire. These tools allow for a holistic life coaching approach that incorporates the mind-body-brain connection. With NLP, we can reframe thought patterns, shift our mental state, reduce stress, and cultivate a mindset conducive to healing, resting, and energy production. Additionally, NLP examines how we internally represent our experiences. By working with NLP tools, including timelines, we can transform patterns and memories from our past that no longer serve us well- particularly those that are keeping us stuck in cycles of chronic fatigue or burnout.
The benefits of coaching are that you become independent, resilient, and grow in confidence. From being coached, you will develop a toolkit of strategies that can be used to help with future life events as well as propel you forward now, so that you thrive.
Fatigue Coaching for Chronic Illness and Burnout.
Coaching is an immensely powerful way to enhance our lives. As a health coach, I offer a friendly and professional service. However, I don’t promise a cure. Instead, I focus on finding ways to improve your symptoms, enhance your sense of positive wellbeing, increase your current functional level, and ultimately enhance your overall quality of life. By working together, we can set and achieve realistic goals. I warmly welcome the opportunity to assist you in overcoming daily challenges, breaking patterns that keep you stuck, and building the mental strength you need.
I offer a free connection call to all new potential clients. There is no obligation to continue with coaching after this call. It's a great opportunity to see if I am the right next step for you.
Why not contact me or book a free, no obligation call, to see if I am the right next step for you?
Personalised 1 to 1 Coaching to help you with the challenges you face. When we suffer with relentless fatigue or burnout, it can feel like a lonely place, especially if we look well on the outside. We can feel misunderstood and not be sure who to turn to for help. We may be putting on a brave face, so nobody really understands the extent of our problems. Even if you have a great support network, when we are not fully functioning, it can be hard to find the way to move forward.
Fatigue management coaching is about supporting you whilst you make your own decisions on what action to take, to achieve your goals. Whether you want to reduce your symptoms, have more energy, cope better with stress, make healthy lifestyle changes, enhance your work-life balance or improve communication in relationships. If you are not sure what your goals are, no problem, we can work together to identify them and set goals that are achievable and realistic.
Learn about pacing to manage your energy levels, through my pacing programmes. You will be empowered to take control of your energy levels and chosen activities. Learn to prevent boom and bust cycles in your energy levels, which can lead to post exertional malaise. Benefits of pacing are you will be able to cope better and once a baseline level of activity has been achieved and is consistent, you can then look to gradually increase your overall activity level.
My pacing programme is 1 to 1 support. There is a choice of a self-study course for fatigue management
Pacing as a theory is simple but it can be challenging getting it to successfully integrate into your life. I can support you with this, so you can cope again. My pacing programmes help you to manage your extreme fatigue by addressing your physical, mental and emotional self.
The practicalities of how to pace is combined with NLP coaching tools, and lifestyle factors to boost your energy production are explored.
Burnout to Balance: A 6-Week Programme to Restore Your Energy and Harmony with NLP
This programme is designed to help you bounce back from fatigue and burnout. You will discover how to use NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) to enhance your energy and change your life. NLP is a powerful approach that can help you to:
If you can not find the answer to your question, please contact me: jo@jothomascoaching.com
The number of coaching sessions required varies between clients. Most clients have between 4-6 sessions, then we review if further sessions are required. Please get in touch so we can discuss your coaching needs and what can be realistically achieved.
There is an overlap between these two disciplines but in general, therapy is mainly looking into somebody's past, whereas coaching is future focused. However, in coaching, we do look at your past for patterns and answers, to help you move forward towards achieving your goal(s).
No. My fatigue and burnout coaching is to work alongside your medical treatment, to enhance your overall wellbeing. In terms of fatigue, most people want to maximise their energy production and ability to function. There may be some aspects of your life that are negatively impacting your wellbeing and if these are addressed you could see enhanced results from your medical treatment. For example, unresolved, overwhelming stress can lower your immunity, affect your digestive tract, increase joint and muscle pain, disrupt sleep and lead to difficultly concentrating. This is just some examples. This list is not exhaustive.
Essentially, yes. As a health coach, I'm primarily focusing on these three aspects of your wellbeing: physical (body), mental (mind) and social (relationships, social interactions). A life coach could look at all these aspects of your life as well and I could choose to call myself a life coach instead. However, as a health coach, I do not cover business, corporate or leadership coaching. Other interchangeable terms are wellbeing coach and wellness coach.
Yes. I hold a Level 5 Diploma in Performance Coaching with Neuro Linguistic Programming. I am also known as an NLP Health Coach. I am a member of the National Council of Integrative Psychotherapists (NCIP) and adhere to their Code of Conduct, which can be viewed at: www.the-ncip.org Even though I am a Registered Adult Nurse in the UK, I am providing a coaching service, not a nursing service.
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