Life- Resourceful
Life, career and business coaching for ELT professionals.
Join my free online Facebook group for ELT professionals who want more balance and purpose in their lives and work.
- Learn some strategies for managing stress and overwhelm.
- Become part of an amazing, positive community.
”Overall, your group is a life-line, and reassuring in these difficult times. A huge thank you.”
Estelle, Language Trainer.
”Many of the ELT professionals I coach feel under-valued and over-worked. Maybe you…
- find it hard to set boundaries and to say no, but end up feeling resentful and exploited?
- are prone to imposter syndrome and even self-sabotage?
- try to stay positive, but frequently end up exhausted and demoralised?
- know you don’t earn enough?
My aim is to help you earn more, work less and live more fully.
I work with clients 1-2-1 and on my 12 week small group programme for ELT Freelancers: Switch off Stress, Switch on Success.’‘
Rachael Roberts
Life-Resourceful
Life Coaching
Feeling stuck or overwhelmed? Aware that you are not looking after yourself properly? Anxious and snappy?
Through 1-2-1 coaching I can help you ‘wake up’ and reconnect with your authentic self.
Together we can sift through the pile of old habits and beliefs currently holding you back, to develop greater resilience and the confidence and clarity to make any changes in your life that you desire.
Group programme
Switch off Stress, Switch on Success is my 12 week small group programme for ELT freelancers: teachers, trainers, writers, editors.
Develop or come up with your business idea, start to implement practical business skills and overcome mindset blocks.
In-service training and public speaking
Help your team learn how to communicate more effectively, manage workload efficiently, and deal with stress.
I have years of experience working with groups to facilitate positive change and can make a real difference even in a one-off session.
I am also an experienced plenary speaker and workshop facilitator
Rachael had always struck me as someone who’s easy and enjoyable to talk to, so when I decided I wanted to have some coaching, I thought of her. I knew I didn’t want someone who would sit there passively and wait until I answered my own questions (which is what I’d always thought coaches and therapists did!) That couldn’t have been further from the truth – Rachael offered ideas, asked great questions and explained different psychotherapy theories which we used as a kind of prism to understand the way I felt and behaved. I now feel on the front foot and ready to break out of a long-established pattern of behaviour. It’s been really helpful and interesting – thanks, Rachael!
I’m self-employed so I do various jobs and often take on too much, and don’t establish boundaries. As a result of the group programme, I’ve learned to feel more comfortable about saying ‘no’. I’ve also begin to understand what underpins my trouble with that- people pleasing- and what is really going on with procrastination. For someone on the fence about this programme, I’d say, ‘Try it!’ You’ll feel a lot better about yourself, which will help your motivation and your focus. I’m looking forward to better boundaries, and to enjoying work more as a result.
Recent blog posts
How to ask for what you want, say no when you need to, and live more authentically.
People sometimes confuse being aggressive with being assertive, and worry that in speaking up about things that make them unhappy, saying no, or asking for what they want or need, they will stop being likeable. In fact, the two things are very different. Assertiveness...
Why we often struggle with self-compassion
Put simply, self-compassion is about liking yourself and treating yourself as well as you would treat a good friend, rather than talking to yourself and pushing yourself in a way you wouldn’t dream of doing to anyone else. It sounds kind of obvious, and yet many of us...
Do we need someone else in our lives to be complete?
Many people feel that if they don’t have a life partner, they are somehow incomplete. We see this all the time in movies and books. They say things like ‘you complete me’, or talk about their ‘other or better half’. This actually goes back to Aristophanes, who told...