Sonya Matthews - Mindset Mentor

Having dealt with crippling life-long anxiety - which inconveniently blossomed into post-natal depression - and then exacerbated an unhealthy relationship with alcohol, Sonya has experienced a whole gammit of challenges in life! Not one to be defeated, Sonya persisted until she learned how to overcome her dependence on alcohol, then worked on overcoming anxiety.
Having become a student and practitioner of mindset and mindpowers, Sonya is now in a powerful position to help people through similar struggles of their own.
Sonya has trained as a coach and mentor. These days Sonya studies mindfulness, neuroplasticity, human habits and practices a daily success ritual to maintain a healthy mindset and be anxiety free.
Having found this journey from "pain to progress" to be so transformational, Sonya now helps others to love being who they are and overcome stress, anxiety, frustration and dissatisfaction.

Career Coaching can mean many things.

Some of us get some way down the track in our career – and realise we’re in the wrong place! NOW what do we do? Having experienced precisely this conundrum, and having found the ideal way through it, Sonya is able to help individuals pinpoint their purpose in life and navigate their path towards it.

For others, receiving guidance to advance in their current company or transition into a new position is the goal. Alternatively, to secure a new job in a new company, country, or location can be the challenge.

Sometimes what appears to be a single path can lead to a choice between two alternative options – what to do?

Here’s where the power of career coaching shows itself.

Sonya is able to assist with these situations as well as: make your LinkedIn profile more effective, ‘workshopping’ your interview techniques, role-playing to prepare you for your interview, refining your personal presentation, etiquette and professional image and presence.

Most of us realise that if we had all GOOD habits and no or few BAD habits, it probably wouldn’t bee too difficult to get to where we wanted to in life! If we didn’t overeat… we’d lose weight. If we didn’t procrastinate… we’d get more things done. If we put items away as we finished with them… it wouldn’t be so difficult to keep the house tidy – and so on!
Yet, releasing old, unhelpful habits can be difficult. Extremely difficult. And adopting new, positive and helpful habits can be exhilarating and inspiring, but a little hard to stick to long enough to see any lasting results.
Here’s where a coach specialising in positive habits comes in!
We work together to identify what old habits are holding you back. We identify where it is you want to go and what actions are going to be required to get you there. With this groundwork done, it’s time to make a plan and take the steps towards your goals – mindfully dealing with the potentially sabotaging old habits along the way!
When you understand your habits and when and why and how they occur, you’ll gain insight into how you’ve been held back in the past. Armed with this intelligence, I coach you through the process of turning your goals into your reality, all the while embracing and embedding new, positive and helpful habits into your everyday routine.

Coaching is an interactive process during which I, as your coach, guide and facilitate your progress towards goals you have set. These goals may be around relationships, career, self-confidence, financial matters, entrepreneursih or a more general goal of “getting life back on course”. For many people, the trigger for a coach can be as specific as a new job, a relationship breakdown or illness or as vague as simply feeling that life is moving so quickly that you’ve lost control.

A good coach will help you to find direction in various aspects of your life, including relationships, goal setting, stress management, motivation, health, even spirituality. As your coach I can’t guarantee that you’ll leap to the top of the company, but I help you self-regulate, define where you want to go and help you get there via small, realistic steps.

A coach is often the missing link, filling in the gap between books, workshops and seminars, aspirations and other advice or ideas.
Note that as your coach I will focus on the present and the future with you – not the past. Coaching is about finding solutions, rather than analysing or unravelling why there’s a problem.

My coaching is oriented towards finding and creating the future you want and helping you take the action necessary to achieve your life transformation. You’ll quite likely find that you’ll be motivated to push yourself further than you’ve gone before! And I’ll be cheering from the sidelines!