Life Beyond Teaching
Penny Helps To Unlock Dreams
A woman who helped someone escape from Broadmoor was short listed for
an award this week.
But Penny Freeston doesn't spend her days baking nail files into fruitcakes
- she is a life coach who helps people achieve their goals.
The 50-year-old former teacher turned to life coaching when she stopped
work and now runs workshops and telephone and face to face coaching sessions
from her home in Derby Road, South Woodford.
Life coaching is an interactive process where the coach guides someone
towards their chosen goals.
These may concern relationships, career, self-confidence, financial matters
or feeling that life has drifted off course.
Penny explained: "I help people to identify what it is they want
and help them focus, on how to get it."
She was shortlisted for the Accelerate Life Coaching life makeover of
the year award and attended a glitzy ceremony in London on Tuesday.
Penny pinpointed one of her greatest achievements as helping 54 year old
Lucy Hamilton, a forensic psychiatric nurse at Broadmoor high security
hospital to follow her, dreams and escape her unhappy life.
Penny said: "I coached her out of, Broadmoor and within three months
she had fulfilled her lifelong ambition to teach and she was appointed
as a lecturer in Social Care a college.
"She was a nurse for 30 years and even without teaching, qualifications,
which she has since got, she got a job teaching."
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