ESH Coaching

Experience, Strength & Hope to Support Your Journey

About ESH Coaching

We believe that if deep down you feel broken and beyond repair and your life is overwhelming, you are not alone and there is hope.   We have been there too.  We read books and we listened.  We found therapists.  We went to meetings.  Somehow we learned along the way how to grow ourselves up and heal from our wounds.  We believe that the journey to healing is done in community not alone and that the sharing of experience, strength & hope is a key step in the process.   

ESH Coaching will guide you towards healing and rediscovering those parts of you – playful, passionate, authentic, unashamed and unafraid – which are your true self.

· Meet Our Team ·

Julia Calkins

Julia is the founder of ESH Coaching.  She lives in Memphis and Savannah, TN. 

Coming Soon

If you are a coach and connect with our mission, please reach out about joining our team!!

What is Coaching?

At ESH Coaching we are IAPRC certified coaches and we adopt The International Coach Federation’s definition of coaching as follows:

  • Coaching is an ongoing professional relationship that helps people produce extraordinary results in their personal lives, careers, businesses, or organizations.

  • Through the process of coaching, clients deepen their learning, improve their performance, and enhance their quality of life.

  • In each meeting, the client chooses the focus of conversation, while the coach listens and contributes observations and questions. This interaction creates clarity and moves the client into action.

  • Coaching accelerates the client’s progress by providing greater focus and awareness of choice. Coaching concentrates on where clients are now and what they are willing to do to get where they want to be in the future. Coaches recognize that results are a matter of the client’s intentions, choices and actions, supported by the coach’s efforts and application of the coaching process.

Coaching is not counseling and is not a substitute for professional mental health care.   We believe, however, that coaching can be an integral part of your overall process in healing and growing.  

How is Coaching Different from Therapy?

In an over-simplified sense, one of the primary difference between a therapist and a coach is that therapists tend to focus more on the past into the present while coaches tend to focus more on the present into the future.  Said differently – therapists focus on “why” certain behavioral patterns occur, and coaches work on “how” to work toward a goal.

At ESH coaching we are trained in life coaching as well as recovery coaching.   Therefore, much of our work with clients revolves around the “how” of living in recovery.    See our page on Ideal Client too see more examples.  

  

How is Recovery Coaching different from Sponsoring?

Although 12 step sponsors and recovery coaches both mentor and support people in living in recovery, the main difference is that sponsors are in a service relationship with the recovering individual, not a professional one.  Sponsors support individuals working through a specific 12-step program.  They help newcomers learn about the program, how it works, what they can expect, and what the expectations are.   Recovery coaches work with individuals to reach certain goals such as attaining or maintaining sobriety regardless of the method(s) used.    At ESH Coaching we work with recovering individuals to help them develop and follow structured recovery plans.   We help to accelerate progress in recovery by providing greater focus and awareness of choices, activities, and responsibilities.