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Weight Loss: If at First You Don’t Succeed…
…do you try again, or give up? If change is hard, do you see it through, however long it takes, or do you compromise on what you really want? There are plenty of stories about how one or two Clean Language sessions radically changed someone’s life. And what about all the sessions that gave someone a fantastic insight or two, but which did not result in the desired behavioural change?
My story is about losing weight. Not based on a single flash of inspiration, but with repeated attempts – and Clean Language sessions - over a long period of time, each of which has moved me forward in my quest to eat in a healthy way for good. After five years of accumulated learning, I believe I am now finally doing this.
Posted on 05 Aug 2011 by Charlotte Ellis in Client Stories, Health, Metaphor, Outcomes
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The Doubts Buster
Imagine...
You know what you want.
The big goal is clear. You’ve defined your challenging and reachable goal. It is well-formed – specific, measurable, time-bound, positive and expressed in the present tense. You know the resources that will be required and the signs that will indicate that it has been reached. You’ve even broken this goal down into smaller manageable steps. The action plan is defined. You are pleased with yourself. Excited and raring to go...
Posted on 28 Feb 2010 by Rosaleen Bloomfield in Clean Language, Client Stories
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A New Platform of Success
This case study was first published in Coaching Skills for Leaders in the Workplace: How to Motivate and Get the Best from Your Staff, by Jackie Arnold.
Lizz Clarke is the Managing Director of Logical Creative Marketing (LCM), one of Hampshire's leading PR, marketing and design agencies. She has built this business from scratch over the past 19 years and has had to face up to lots of different challenges along the way, as she’s developed the business from a ‘one-man band’ to a company which employs 10 members of staff and has a turnover of nearly £1 million per annum.
Posted on 28 Aug 2009 by Marian Way in Client Stories
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Clean Remedy for Toothache
When Jane came along to the Clean Language practice group in July, she was hoping to find out about Clean Language and to maybe have a go at asking some questions. That she also was able to get rid of a raging toothache that she’d had for nine months was a welcome surprise.
Posted on 26 Aug 2009 by Marian Way in Client Stories, Health, Practice Group
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Going Through Walls
R booked an appointment for a telephone Clean Language (CL) session because she’d been feeling 'horrible' for over two months. Her husband’s cancer had returned after a three year gap, and she was finding it very difficult to cope emotionally, as well as carrying on 'normal life' working freelance full time. She had always had a tendency to assume she should be able to – and could - cope with everything, but this had resulted in “going through brick walls, leaving an imprint spreadeagled on the wall”, cartoon style. Recently, though, she’d crashed and written-off her car in the snowy weather (although not into a wall), and so had decided that she needed a different strategy. She reported that she didn’t seem to have any internal measurement to let her know when something was serious enough to be able to ‘not cope’, and she didn’t know what ‘not coping’ would be like.
Posted on 25 Mar 2009 by Marian Way in Client Stories
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Diana Orders Up Holiday Sunshine - and Gets It!
When Diana Gibbs jokingly remarked that she’d like some sunshine for her holiday, I (half-jokingly) replied, “OK – let’s give it a go”, and a clean coaching session was set up to explore this outcome…
It transpired that Diana was planning a sailing trip with her husband – except that she wasn’t! With only a month to go, she still hadn’t chartered a yacht – and she was aware that she was putting this off in the hope there’d be no boat available by the time she did get around to it. Then they’d have to do something else instead. But Diana was an experienced skipper and of the two of them was the big enthusiast… So why was she putting this holiday off?
Posted on 09 Nov 2006 by Marian Way in Client Stories
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Healing a Physical Symptom at Long Distance
By Judy Yero, author of Teaching in Mind
After six weeks in a full arm cast for a broken wrist, I developed RSD (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy). I was unwilling to accept my doctor's prognosis that the condition was "chronic and progressive" and his limiting belief that there were things I would never be able to do, such as bend my fingers fully or regain full range of motion in my wrist. Initially, the condition was accompanied by significant pain and discomfort, as well as irritation over my "limitations." I chose several alternative therapies, such as some NLP patterns and listening for the metaphors I used to describe my symptoms, which included razor blades and sandpaper around my wrist.
Posted on 31 Dec 2004 by Judy Yero in Client Stories, Health
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