ILLUSTRATION ANDREA DE SANTIS
Wendy* contacted me to book some coaching sessions. I remembered that I had worked with her a couple of years ago when she was offered some workplace coaching by her company. I reread my notes from those sessions. She had been stressed, overworked and had referred to herself as ‘a doormat’. The coaching back then had helped Wendy improve her confidence and become more assertive. I wondered whether she was still battling with her people-pleasing tendencies.
“I left a controlling marriage and need to learn to assert myself ”