Coach Dian
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Meet Dian
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Who is Dian?
Dian Reid is a professionally trained Co-active® Coach via The Coaches Training Institute, and is a member of the International Coach Federation. She is also a Certified Professional Coach, with her certificate from Coaches Institute International in November 2009.
Dian has been leading people to personal and professional growth during her 18+ years in Customer Service and Management background, and now chooses to serve her community as a life and authenticity coach.
Dian honors her part in the LGBTQ community by offering coaching in areas of Questioning and coming out, lesbian couples coaching, and living authentically. She draws upon her own experience of coming out to her devout Christian father in 2000, as well as the subsequent relationship changes with him and other friends and family, in working with her clients around this topic.
In 2006 Dian lost her father to gall bladder cancer, which led her to leave her corporate job of 8 years to prioritize and align her life with her authentic self. She spent the next 4 years writing a book about the experience of being present for her father’s death, and how their relationship impacted her life, both before and after his death. That book is in the midst of being edited in 2010.
Dian grew up in the San Fernando Valley, just north of Hollywood in Southern California. She now lives in Long Beach with her domestic partner, 2 rescued cats and a rescued Labrador mutt.
Dian’s Vision
See, the thing about life is that we all think we can do it alone. And then we go try to do it alone and we get lost. We think, “How did I get here, again?” We wonder if we’re crazy. We wonder if we didn’t just figure it all out a minute ago and then dismiss it as hearsay. Wait, did I write that down? Didn’t I try that last week? Where am I? Who am I, again???
We get in our own heads (or at least that little voice does). We need someone to sort through the clutter. And believe me, there’s clutter. Even the most successful people out there have clutter (and manage it with a coach—an acting coach, a writing coach, a hitting coach, a personal trainer, a…life coach). Why not you?
Here’s how it works:
You talk. I listen. You clear. I ask questions. You think. You answer questions. You deepen your learning and forward your action. You grow. You find that little piece of authenticity hiding inside you, and you dust it off. You show it some sunlight. You take it to the playground. You tackle old beliefs with it and create new ones. You learn. You be. You learn how to be your authentic you™.
Ready. Set. Go.
Dian’s Life Purpose Statement
“I am the catalyst that inspires you to own your authenticity.”
What You Get With Dian
- Tools to (re-)discover your core values and how to honor what’s important to you (yes, important to you).
- Empowerment to take charge of your life (you DO know it’s yours, right?) and make conscious choices based on those values.
- Resources to keep growing, living, learning, rocking Your Authentic You even after our coaching has ended.
- Compassion. Not the sappy crap-kind you see on Lifetime TV, but the real kind where you get to be you and judgment takes a trip to the bottom of the ocean with a cannonball chained to its leg.
More About Dian:
As noted above, Dian is an author, and has a blog related to her writing. To get to that blog, and learn more about Dian, click here.
Book List
A short list of some of the books I’ve recently read and recommend.
Blink / Malcolm Gladwell
A powerful look at hidden biases and the assumptions we make in life based on those biases. This book creates awareness and allows the reader to make his/her choice in exposing, acknowledging, and changing those biases.
The Power Of Now / Eckhart Tolle
Tolle asks you to look only at your present state, and release all the stories you hold about your past and whatever might come of the future.
Anatomy Of The Spirit / Caroline Myss, PHD
An exploration of what’s possible when you open your mind to healing yourself through addressing your life and emotions as they truly are, rather than as we choose to see them.
The Mastery Of Love / Don Miguel Ruiz
This book helped guide me to self love and self-care, and approaching relationships of all types with Love as the key starting ingredient.
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