Hello,I’m Deborah Trenchard
Welcome To
Life Coaching with a Difference
Nearly thirty years ago I first discovered my gift and my passion: my ability to inspire others. By encouraging them to overcome and make life-changing decisions to uncover an excitement about life they’d not previously experienced. It has been such an integral part of me that I later came to the conclusion that coaches are born, not made. Back then I referred to it as “guidance”. From time to time, I run into some of those people who are delighted to tell me about their progress. They say how much I’d inspired them, helped them during hard times and low periods. Through the times they felt lost and confused, lacking in self-esteem. The times they doubted their own ability to shine.
I’ve had many masters along the way; encountered various techniques and methodologies; and learned how to exploit these inherent skills in a more focused way. Martha Beck’s training taught me unique ways to help people identity their strengths and solve their problems. I continue to practise what I've learned on myself first, hence ‘I Live it to Give it’. For me it is impossible to give, constructively and profoundly, from a place of emptiness.
Coaching is my life; and it doesn’t stop with paying clients. My attitude’s the same whether I’m encouraging parents of special needs children or patients on the wards when I do my voluntary work. As a patient myself, I am an expert when it comes to my feelings, my thoughts and whether or not I feel powerless or empowered when it comes to decisions about my health. I encourage patients (people in general) to become more involved in their treatment; how they view and communicate with medical staff, especially with consultants. Most importantly, how they impel themselves into insignificance by nodding and not asking the appropriate questions about their wellbeing.
It is for this reason that I’ve developed a workshop for patients ─ The Empowered Patient. We are all patients. Educating ourselves is imperative. A health check isn’t just about what is wrong with our bodies. Equally important, are our erroneous thoughts, our fears about ‘what might be wrong with us’; feelings we’d rather deny. And this attitude doesn’t apply, exclusively, to the elderly, or uneducated. With my years of experience I am on a mission to help people become more involved in their health. After all, it’s their business; not just the doctor’s.
I hold the same view when I encourage parents of disabled children. I had a disabled daughter and I can empathise with many of the fears; the feelings of hopelessness and despair, and sometimes acute loneliness, parents/carers can experience.
Another thing that is important to me is the way I present myself. No matter where I meet a client for coaching sessions: in a coffee shop, a hotel lobby, or in my living room, it is important for me to show up impeccably dressed. It shows respect. And it adds that je ne sais quoi to my to life coaching! How I present myself is a manifestation of, as well as an introduction to, what is on the inside: my life state. I have the same attitude when I do my voluntary work in the hospital. It says: you’re special. Patients, as well as clients, appreciate my intention. I’ve noticed how it lifts their spirits. It lifts mine too!
So there you have it, a flavour of life coaching a la Deborah ─ Life Coaching with a Difference!
"Deborah Trenchard is a phenomenal woman: kind, insightful, tenaciously optimistic. Experienced in using the North Star methodology, she has been coaching people with great success for nearly three decades. Her charm and positive energy make working with her a boost for the spirit, as well as a productive process for the mind. Deborah’s wealth of experience, combined with her familiarity with cutting life-coaching tools, makes her a coach you can rely on whatever your life circumstances."
Dr. Martha Beck, Author of Expecting Adam and Steering by Starlight.
Life Coach to the Oprah Show.