So last week was an interesting one. In the process of spreading the good word of the
Baby Momma! What Next? coaching workshop I wrangled myself into a spot on a radio show.

Fantastic opportunity I hear you cry! That was my initial thought too, until the doubt crept in and the voice inside my head shouted, ‘You’ve done what?’

I was nervous, anxious and downright scared.

Luckily just before I left for the studio I listened to an inspiring talk by Bréne Brown at the 99u conference. It was one of those magic moments when you hear something at exactly the moment you need to. I’ve always loved her work around vulnerability and felt it’s connection with creativity was very real for creatives. This talk took it further in regards to showing up.

It dawned on me that I want to ‘show up and be seen’ in my life, that when I’m not feeling the fear I’m maybe not showing up enough and finally the realisation that if I fail at least I fail ‘Daring Greatly’.

Daring greatly, what a way to live. That statement felt really good to me.
Brave, bold, real. 

So off I went armed with that thought and some reaffirming self talk
– I am a calm and confident individual – enough ammunition to get me to the station.

The wonderful  Victoria Mary Clarke  was on before me and rocking her interview! More fear … but then I met the lovely Danielle Serpico my presenter for the night. The fear faded and we went live!

It was a really good experience. I bared my soul on live radio, had an opportunity to talk about my passions and got to connect with some great people in studio and across the radio waves.
I was scared silly but I dared greatly and came out the other side unscathed.

The important thing for each of us to remember is that what daring greatly feels like to me, may be totally different to what daring greatly feels like for you. We are all so individual in our experiences, needs and desires, the key is to discover if it is meaningful for you.

Why not try daring greatly in your life today and see what results you get?
What do you reckon, is it worth a try?

Big Love,

Naomi

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I’m running my first ever Baby Momma! What Next? Coaching workshop!!

To say I am chuffed is an understatement as this is an idea that was born 4 years ago!

So what is the Baby Momma! What Next? Coaching workshop?

The specifics:

It is a 5 hour programme. We will cover exploring your Values & Beliefs, Mindsets, Who and What do you need to be happy, Your Big Goals and identify techniques you can use to Make Things Happen. You will create your own vision board which will bring to life your wants and desires and declare them to the universe. You’ll be amazed at what happens when you take the time to declare to the world what you want from life, yes you guessed it, it starts happening. Light refreshments will be available and all you need is provided.

Who is it for?

This particular course is aimed towards us women. And more specifically the Baby Momma’s of the world.

So if you are a Mum who is considering your options, maybe heading back to work, or staying at home, feeling unsure or somewhat stuck my ‘Baby Momma! What Next’ Coaching Workshop is for you!

How will you benefit?

The workshop is about opening channels of possibility and exploring options and opportunities. It gives you the space and tools to actually work out what paths are of interest to you and discover what is the next best step.

It is a chance to explore choices, ignite possibilities & gain clarity for you & your family’s future. 

You will feel more in control, more empowered & clearer about your next step.

Why am I running this course?

I am running this course because 4 years ago this is the course that I needed to attend and it wasn’t out there! 

And also because many of the women I meet find challenges in this area and I want to help them overcome those challenges. Here is one such woman:

‘Naomi you’ve given me excellent advice that gave me lots to think about in terms of parenting and career choices. I highly recommend that anyone with similar dilemmas that can make it to Dublin on the 23rd should go to this workshop. And if you ever do one in London I’ll be there’. Sheila Wickens.

What Next?
Come along, have some fun & design your ideal life…

If you have any questions you can connect with me via email: naomicaballcoaching@gmail.com
or
call me on +353 86 895 0001 or
facebook message me at www.facebook.com/NaomiCaballCoaching

I hope you can join me Sunday the 23rd of August 2015 or
Sunday the 6th of September 2015 !

Places are limited so book now to secure your spot.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

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But what about bullying yourself?

Do you have you an internal bully in your head?

A grinch that creates fear in you?

Have you beliefs that are dragging you down or holding you back from doing the things
that you really want to do? Are there any negative things that you say to yourself that
you wouldn’t say to another person? What internal monologue is inside your head?

The following is a list of
common Self Limiting Beliefs:

I am not good enough
I don’t have enough knowledge
I’m not educated enough
Who do I think I am?
I’m quite a negative person
My memory is poor
I procrastinate
I’m a disaster
I have no time
What if I fail
I am afraid
You can’t have it all

Take a moment to consider the below terms:

I can’t & I must & I have to… Ask yourself, who or what is taking your power away?

Exercise:
Imagine yourself at an interview for a job you really want: What are you thinking? All positive thoughts? If you have negative beliefs floating around in there chances are they are your Self Limiting Beliefs.

Now it’s time to take the Power back!

So you have a list of self limiting beliefs. Good going. Now ask yourself, what is this belief doing for me? Could my life be better with a new belief? What is the best thing that can happen with this old belief?

Are you are ready to destroy this list? If so, I invite you to Burn, Rip, Shred, Destroy it!!!
& get ready to combat future negative beliefs with some sparkling new Empowering Beliefs.

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It’s about my sister.

For anyone who knows me you’ll know I have one sister. One other person who knows who I am and who I was from the very start. She is 4 years older than me. I think I have always been a bit of a pain in her b-side. I always laugh when I think about how my Granny Rafferty referred to a time when I was just born and Ingrid, then 4 years old said to her, ‘I’m Fxxking Jealous’. I love this, first that she would say it and more funnily that Granny Rafferty in her 80tieth year would remember it and say it out loud with such fun! She was a beautiful child, flaxen curls and beautiful skin, and the centre of my parents world until I came crashing in.

I was in awe of her from a very young age. I would love it when she would play dolls with me. We always shared a bed, even though we didn’t have to and we would play name that song on the head board and she would read aloud to me before I could read myself.

We grew up and she went to college. I would wear her rucksack around the house when she came home. I would beg her to take me to concerts with her in Dublin. I would cramp her style at my first festival, her 4th. I was and still am, her shadow. She discovers some new health kicks, I get onboard knowing that she will have done the heavy research for me and it is a safe and well considered route to take.  I need business advice, I know she’ll have the latest ideas around the area and can point me in the right direction or indeed give me a direct consultation on what steps to take next. We explore and consider concepts and in-depth issues and reveal revelations to each other, this causes great excitement and personal realisation on an ongoing basis. She’s my exterior conscience. She calls me self righteous, checks me if I am being mean but also shines a light on when I am doing good and reflects back to me my good points.

She makes me wanna be the best person I can be. We keep each other afloat and build each other up. We are best friends.

She is a part of me and is always and has always been there for me. Whether we are together or 6310 kilometres apart. Which is usually the case as she lives in Atlanta, USA and I live in Dublin, Ireland. I sense when she is sad in my gut, and feel it in my heart when she is also content with life. We laugh until snot comes out of our noses. Big belly laughs. We connect on a level that goes beyond sistership, friendship, family. She is my soul mate, my soul sister.

I love you Ingo,

your wee sis

xxx

Naomi

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I have titled this post after the 1995 Blur hit, ‘This is a low’. Wait a second haven’t you just gone Paleo, don’t you now have ooodles of energy?? Well yes, but yesterday, I had a bit of a low. Happens to the best of us and yesterday it happened to me. To understand why it happened I’ll first elaborate on the last 23 days since I started the challenge.

So to recap I am on day 23 of the Whole 30 challenge. In all honesty it has been an amazing journey so far. I understand that I sound like some sort of fanatic but the positive effects that I have experienced since being on it are really quite brilliant.

First and foremost I noticed I had more energy. On day one and two I had the expected fuzzy, hangover head, due to the removal of sugars from my diet. However, once past those days, quickly my energy levels improved, and improved. Pretty epic result.

And that’s not all, I began experiencing way more clarity. Day on day I am feeling lighter, brighter, more focused and more organised!

On an appearance level, I appear to have lost a bit of belly and my skin is much clearer.

I’m sleeping better too which in turns helps all the other aspects too.

However 3 days ago I found myself craving a big ‘durty’ glass of milk, cheese on toast and a whopping big bar of milk chocolate… All the yummy things that are currently off bounds for 30 days. I had a low and wanted food to pick me up. So what caused the low?

In retrospect I forgot 3 things. My need for sleep, my need to stop and put myself first and my need to be organised. I slept late, I missed eating a full breakfast first thing and underprepared for the day ahead. The result was quite powerful. I had a ‘low’. Not the worst of the worst lows, just a very low energy day. Which knocked me for 6. I was loving my new found energy and suddenly ‘pow’. What the…? This was the ‘low’.

The beautiful thing about ‘the low’ is that it only goes to illustrate how wonderful ‘the high’ feels. And with our current diet the high can last quite a bit longer than the effects of a square of chocolate or a sneaky can of coke.

So what have I learned. I have learned first and foremost that sleep is my key to real productivity, that I have to look after myself first and foremost and that preparation, no matter how much I love to go with the flow, is pretty darn important if I want to stay on track.

Finally I have learned that there will be lows.
So you know what, acknowledge them.
Accept that every once in a while they are gonna happen, it’s ok to have an off day.
Embrace the low.
Be gentle with yourself
Let it settle and let it go.
Sleep.

Trust that tomorrow will be a better day.

Warmest wishes
x
Naomi

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I came along and started a 21 day Meditation Experience, Deepak Chopra and Oprah, or Choprah as I call it, https://chopracentermeditation.com/experience. It appeared in my consciousness the Monday after our introductory weekend so I thought this is meant to be. I’m on day 19 now and it’s been great. Through it and speaking with others around the area of meditation I have come across some interesting new lines of enquiry… More on this later.  I guess until now I had felt a little embarrassed to admit that I was interested in meditation. Admitting that in itself now sounds daft but there you have it. I don’t know if it’s the meditation or the over all expansion of awareness but my world is opening up around me. My head is buzzing with concepts that I have touched on before but now seem to be seeing with greater clarity and conviction.

One of these concepts is diet. I’m big into yoga and throughout my life have found that when in a solid yoga phase, I think clearer, eat better and have more energy. Right now I’m sad to say I’m not in a solid phase of yoga. A daily salute to the sun is all that I can muster at the moment. Although that act in itself is definitely a positive, a consistent class is what I need and what I am starting from next week!

Back to diet. I have never dieted and luckily seem to have a pretty speedy metabolism so have never had to. My beloved only sister Ingrid is a constant source of reinvigorating information. She has just completed her own Paleo journey, 30 days ago she embarked on the Whole 30, eating Paleo for 30 days… http://whole30.com. And so, not in an effort to lose weight but in an effort to take back control of my eating habits and regain some energy I’m going Paleo, for the next 30 days, so is my husband Paul which is great, as it will be a good support.

Going Paleo could be seen as just a dietary decision. But when I considered it alongside my own personal journey of self discovery it aligns with many other aspects of my life. The major one being anti-consumerism. Which is ironic as my original profession is Graphic Design and Advertising, so I’ve been involved in the marketing and promotion of products. I now feel it’s all connected. I feel consumerism is sucking parents from their children. Individuals, time poor, working long hours in an effort to afford processed products created to make ‘life easier’, ‘more convenient’, and in the process making themselves unhealthier and more stressed. Reverting to health instilling ‘products’ and ‘fitness packages’ to regain some sense of wellbeing. When I really think about it, it’s flawed at a really deep level.  And perhaps due to tiredness, the stresses and strains of daily life, my attempts at satisfying certain needs I have chosen not to think about it. But today I choose to live with intention. I choose to consider why I am doing what I am doing, and what effect this is having on me, my family and the world.

Big stuff, but as I said before, I am in process, one step at a time, and you know that is ok.

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Today I embarked on my ‘full blown’ journey into life coaching.

I say ‘full blown’ as I have dabbled before. As far back as I can remember I journaled and wrote lists of goals. Hot air ballooning, singing on stage, skydiving, the usual ten-year old aspirations. I’ve always had a more than usual interest in people, what they are doing and what they would really like to be doing. I considered taking psychology at university but travelled down the artistic path as this is where my passions and talents as a nineteen year old lay. I spent four years at Art college and a further thirteen years working in the graphic design industry. But all the while my heart was craving something a little different, something a little more.

About seven years ago through my work I was introduced to the notion of life coaching. The content we covered that day blew my world open. So much of what we were covering really spoke to me and I wanted to do more. I felt motivated, alive and more excited than I had felt in a long time. I wanted to do more.

I then undertook a masters, during which we covered a module in Coaching and Mentoring. Ah yes, I thought, this is what it’s all about. That year I went through a period of ‘full on’ learning and personal growth. I challenged myself more than I thought was possible. I stretched myself to breaking at times. I grew. I developed. I changed.

What followed was a period of intense personal change. I married, and had a baby boy in the space of a year. It was this event that changed my life.

Six months into my baby boy’s life I realised I had post natal depression. I found it difficult to accept. I was a really positive person. How could this happen to me? I loved this new little person. Ordinarily I love change and challenge. But I was joyless, anxious, and lacking in energy for life like never before and could not shake ‘the funk’. Eventually I sought and eventually I found help. It was challenging but I overcame it and had my second baby Rosa Mae about a year later, and thankfully postnatal depression free.

What I didn’t realise when my first born entered that world was from that moment I changed. I could no longer be the person that just accepted how things were. On a level unknown to myself then, I wanted to be the best person I could be for that little person. I wanted to be as true to me as I could possibly be.  I wanted above all else to be living an authentic and real life that was how I always imagined my life would be. This was it, real life, not a dress rehearsal. As the days went by and my little boy got bigger, the intensity of my feelings grew. When my little girl was born, those feelings doubled. I needed to start living the life I wanted to live and I needed to start living it now!

What followed was a period of immense flux. But somehow I found myself exploring coaching again and through it I gained insights that have brought me to where I am today.

And where am I today? I am in process. I’m on the road. I don’t know where I am going, but that’s ok. I’m headed in the right direction. I am in process. And for me that is a lovely state to be in.

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