Spalding life coach Vanessa Browning aims to provide help with her new business

A life coach who has suffered from post traumatic stress disorder wants to help others in the community.

Vanessa Browning from Spalding runs Community Mind Matters and has started a new life coaching service.

Vanessa’s Life Coaching offers non-clinical mental health to help ‘guide through the challenges life brings with open and honest conversation.’

She said: I just want to help people – I am such a positive person.

“I can't help my condition of PTSD but I can help people with that as well - I know how hard it is.

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“I don't let it beat me - we all have traumas – and I want people to know they don't need to be on their own with it.”

Vanessa says that her own life experience can help others – she has experienced the loss of a child, divorce and undergone therapy herself.

Her group Community Mind Matters runs every Thursday at Ayscoughfee Hall from 12pm-3pm.

She said: “I had intense therapy and it was awful

“Everybody needs a life coach in their life - it is not as heavy as therapy

“Life coaching brings joy - moving people forward.

“I have seen people change overnight.”

Vanessa believes the world would benefit from more kindness – often giving flowers and a thankyou card to staff in shops.

She said: “There needs to be more kindness in the world.

“I want to help the community and those who are struggling and be real and let them talk and spread the message and it is okay to talk .

“We all have a bad day and that’s okay.”

Through her own life experience and training courses Vanessa said: “I have the tools in my toolbox to help shift people's mood to show the positive.

“They can get through difficult patches and I help them meet their goals.”

Having started life coaching before the pandemic it was Covid that stopped her from fully pursuing it as she was unable to see people face-to-face.

She aims to help people move forward who may be at a crossroads in their life.

She said: “It may be to help with a personal move, mental health, or career.

“It is not so much counselling - more to hand hold and show them how I got through it myself.

“I always find a way even in my darkest days – I just want to support people and get them through.

“People are suffering and I want to show them that changing the mindset for a few minutes shows that there is a way forward.”

Vanessa has an office space for consultations but also uses other methods that suit the needs of the person.

She said: “I am not a counsellor - people have to be wanting change so I can get them to their goal.

“It can be very hard to know what direction to go so it could be coaching about boundaries or the mental health side of it.

“I cater for their needs.

”Somebody might want to go for a walk and a chat.

“It's their needs.”

Her sessions are open to individuals and workshops for two to three people on specific subjects.

Contact info@vanessaslifecoaching.co.uk or Vanessa Browning on 07376 157004.

There is also information on Vanessa’s Life Coaching Facebook page.

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