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Systemic Coaching & Health

Systemic Solutions with Martyn Carruthers

It's easier for health professionals and most patients to use drugs as a substitute for change. Self-medication with alcohol or nicotine, or prescription anti-depressants and stimulants, is easier than applying intelligence, focus and analytical skills to complex relationship situations. Drugs are also cheaper for the patient (in the short term) and more profitable for the health professionals.

The long-term consequences and side-effects of psychoactive drugs are unacceptable to an increasing number of professionals and some patients.

What is Systemic Coaching?

Systemic coaching provides critical skills for assessing and changing behavior - and the behavior of people in families and in other important relationship systems. It is not psychotherapy, psychiatry nor medicine - systemic coaching can help both patients and care givers.

Systemic coaching helps people gain insights and emotional stability that can provide many benefits.

Systemic coaching assumes that illness and disease are functional, and provide benefits that outweigh the disadvantages. This implies that illness or diseases are not random and chaotic, rather that disease can be perceived as communication. What does a disease say for you - that you will not say?

Schizophrenia . Insomnia . Cancer . Bipolar Disorder . Mental Illness

Coaching & Disease Symptoms

Many diseases are diseases of lifestyle, such as drug abuse and obesity; and their complications (e.g. heart disease, cancers & adult-onset diabetes.) Health Coaching can help people prevent disease, and deal with disease symptoms, and can provide emotional support during difficult times.

Therapeutic coaching, systemic coaching, systemic disease,relationship disease,conflicts Systemic diseases interfere with the normal structure or function of a human system. A systemic disease may manifest as toxic relationship conflicts, codependence, symbiosis or relationship bonds. Systemic coaching can help people improve relationships - even during emotional stress or physical disease.

Health Coaching and Health

Disease in a family can challenge all family members. If you or a member of your family has been diagnosed with serious disease, it will affect your life. This page describes health and disease, lists common psychological complications and describes ways of providing health coaching.

Origins of Soulwork . Expert Modeling

Health Coaching

Good health is often described as an absence of pain or suffering. We describe health as a state of physical and mental wellbeing - a sense of integrity and wholeness - an experience of connectedness that transcends physical sensations or emotions.

Stress Disorders . Parent Alienation

A therapeutic coach motivates, supports, identifies strengths and exposes what holds you back. Health coaching helps you see your way, to discover the creative solutions you need to achieve your goals. We provide a helping hand - or a helping foot!

Pain Free Living & Pain Coaching

Pain is as unpleasant sensory and emotional experience caused by real or imaginary injury or damage to the body. Pain warns of injury; and protects against further injury by motivating withdrawal from the source of injury. Pain also leads to reduced activity, which may enable injuries to heal.

Pain also has emotional, relationship or psychological components. Some people express extreme discomfort from relatively minor injuries, while others express little or no pain after a severe injury. Sometimes pain is present even though no trauma is apparent, or after an injury has healed.

Fast Pain Control . Long Term Pain Relief

Birth is suffering; decay is suffering; death is suffering; sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair, are suffering; not to get what one desires, is suffering...

Buddha (About 500 BC)
birth,death,pain,suffering,sickness,buddhism Suffering does not ennoble; it degrades. It makes men selfish, mean, petty and suspicious. It absorbs them in small things ... it makes them less than men.

Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)

Psychological Effects of Medications

Discuss the psychological side-effects of your medications with a physician.

  • Oral contraceptives can cause worsen depression
  • Steroids can cause anxiety, depression, mood swings, hallucinations
  • Sleeping drugs can cause memory loss, confusion, difficulty concentrating
  • Decongestants and appetite suppressants cause anxiety
  • Ulcer drugs can cause depression

Side Effects of Prescription Drugs

Coaching & Mental Disease

Many health professionals use the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM IV) or the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), which define mental illnesses by symptoms and characteristics. However, the described symptoms often overlap, differ from person to person, and people may simultaneously display more than one set of recognizable characteristics.

Systemic Coaching does not diagnose or treat mental illness. It explores what a person wants; and identifies relevant challenges or blocks. We coach people to define healthy goals and to overcome obstacles that prevent fulfillment of those goals.

Mental Illness . Schizophrenia . Bipolar Disorder . Depression

Coaching & Psychosomatic Disease

Psychosomatic disease refers to

  • People who report inexplicable physical symptoms
  • People who report blindness, deafness, paralysis or seizures without somatic cause
  • People who fear a disease and interpret any symptom as evidence of that disease

Systemic health coaching explores the benefits of symptoms, with a view to maintaining the benefits in such ways that symptoms become redundant. Many symptoms have benefits. Examples are:

  • The symptom prevents a person from doing something the person does not want to do (E.g. “I cannot go to my hated job because I am sick.”)
  • The symptom causes a person do something that the person wants to do, but, without the symptoms, would not do (E.g. “I can only rest when I am ill.”)
  • The symptom causes another person to do something that he or she would not otherwise do (E.g. “My partner is nice to me only when I show this symptom!”)
  •  The symptom is accepted as punishment (E.g. “I deserve to have this problem!”)

Systemic Health Coaching explores the relationship benefits of disease. Is the person more loved when sick? Does a disease hold a relationship together? Does a disease provide punishment for perceived lack of justice? Common emotional factors affecting disease patients are:

  • Following medical instructions
  • Relationships with family, friends and helping professionals
  • Managing emotions, beliefs and stress

Coaching & Medical Treatment

People who avoid prescribed medical treatments may have many motivations.
  • Disease symptoms may have benefits (see Psychosomatic Disease)
  • Drug side effects may be feared
  • The treatment may be perceived as damaging
  • A person wants to die

NOTE: Consult your physician regarding the applicability of any opinions or recommendations with respect to depression, medical symptoms or medical conditions.

Soulwork provides effective coaching, coach training and mentorship. Do you want to coach people to resolve emotional and relationship challenges?

Plagiarism is theft. Copyright © Martyn Carruthers 2003, 2005, all rights reserved

Systemic Coaching is designed for therapists and coaches, priests and ministers, consultants and managers, advisors, counselors and doctors, psychologists, psychotherapists and psychiatrists, clinicians, marriage therapists and family counselors, personal coaches, personal development coaches and organizational development coaches, business coaches, business consultants and OD consultants, private and general practitioners, helping professionals, counselors and leadership development, leadership trainers, facilitators and spiritual counselors, HR managers, NLP practitioners, human resources specialists and spiritual advisors, mentors, tutors and lawyers, representatives, teachers and addiction counselors, relationship counselors, personal trainers and fitness advisors, nutrition counselors, holistic health practitioners and hypnotherapists, politicians; advertisers, media experts and other professional hypnotists.


 

 
 

 

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We offer systemic coach training to helping professionals
and to people who want healthy relationships and happy families.

Good Questions

Good Answers

Good Training

1. Where are you now in your life? Assess fixations, bonds and enmeshments Systems 1
2. What do you want?  Define life goals ... and blocks to success Systems 2
3. How can you reach your goals?  Use conscious and unconscious resources Systems 3
4. Do your emotions limit you?  Dissolve abuse, trauma and mentor damage Systems 4
5. Do your beliefs block you? Change limiting beliefs to end dependence Systems 5
6. Does inner emptiness limit you? Resolve identity loss to recover qualities and skills Systems 6
7. Do you want happy partnership? Build healthy partnership (or separate peacefully) Systems 7
8. Do you want healthy children? Coach parents to resolve family problems Systems 8
9. Do you want team success? Coach team leaders and top teams ... together Systems 9
10. Do you want community? Coach community leaders and communities Systems 10
**   Do you have unusual goals? Specialty coaching & training for unusual goals Specialty

What is Hawaiian Shamanism?

One root of our systemic magic Huna 1-6

Plagiarism is theft. Copyright © Martyn Carruthers 1996-2011 All rights reserved. Soulwork Systemic Coaching was primarily developed by Martyn Carruthers
to help people dissolve emotional blocks, improve relationships and achieve goals. These concepts and strategies are for general knowledge only. Consult a physician about medical conditions and before changing medical treatment. Don't steal intellectual property ... ask for permission to post, publish or teach this work.