Let’s BE Real: When Healthy Coping Falls Short + Career Development Can’t

Written By Barbara Ellen Leicht

🌱 Because we all need some Real Talk 🌱

~ every now + again ~

Here to stay authentic with all of you! 

💗 It’s no surprise if you’ve followed along, that I am a trauma survivor turned thriver. Even if that weren’t the case … the below would be true for so many. Because, #life

I’m sharing behind-the-scenes about the 🌱 amazing weekend 🌱 my husband Dan Leicht and I had this past Saturday + Sunday. It truly was:

• ending work early on Friday

• picking-it-back-up for Career Development Saturday morning

• and Shop Local supporting in the afternoon (after a power nap)

• with a fun + comforting family dinner to follow

• before a surprise winery roadtrip ahead of the Super Bowl

~ so amazing 💗 but wait for it ~

✨ Pssst …

I had a • very • tough time Friday!!! (Understatement.) Instead of a Friyay, it was a Fri-noway. What went down??

• overwhelm

• trauma triggers

• emotional drain + physical pain and fatigue

• too many decisions + things going wrong

• some tricky miscommunications

Cue: no amount of healthy coping to alleviate … with a busy career development filled Saturday ahead. And isn’t that so hard??

✨ Especially when our healthy coping doesn’t seem to be enough …

I’ve career coached on this many times. Part of my Mindset Career Coach practice is to help individuals unearth • a lot • of healthy coping mechanisms. 

✨ Alongside that is understanding sometimes, they fall short. What do I recommend when this happens??

• listen to you

• respect what your mind + body tell you

• use an emergency action plan as needed

• know this is telling you to make a change and/or it’s helping you build additional healthy coping strategies

• rest and/or cry

Friday after 2pm hurt. 

💗 And the recovery was imperfect

But I’m v grateful for at least 5 things:

1. Listening to me

2. Learning to create space + rest

3. Communicating needs to my husband 

4. His empathetic + nurturing support 

5. Resiliency in recovery 

I got through better than in the past and …

💗 We did create an exceptional weekend. This picture is actually from 2 weekends ago! But you can view last weekend pics here + here.

~ progress ✨ is possible ~

🌱 TLDR: it’s okay to struggle + I wish you excellent healthy coping too 🌱

Barbara Ellen Leicht

Barbara Ellen Leicht, MSEd, is a “Former Teacher, Forever Educator,” Trauma Survivor turned Thriver, and  Mindset Career Coach with 14+ years’ expertise. She specializes in career pivots, higher education, and authentic and strategic relationship building.

Transforming her invisible disabilities into superpowers, Barbara leverages a strengths-based, person-centered, trauma-informed approach to delivering research-backed Corporate Trainings and virtual Career Coaching. On this journey, Barbara has been fortunate to empower 1,000s of diverse job seekers and career pivot’ers.

In fact, during her first full year in business, Barbara helped job seekers negotiate a cumulative of $50k in increased income. Her holistic approach to career coaching helps clients land in a fraction-of-the-time it typically takes.

Barbara’s philosophy—BE Excellent • BE Energized • BE Endlessly You—emphasizes quality fit, for quality work, with quality-of-life. Cheers to being your best you! ✨

https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbaraellenleicht/
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