Natasha Singh

Ever feel like – you are caught in a pattern that keeps taking over, you know you need to break it, if only you knew what it was and how to? Or felt the need for change but not sure which direction to look in? Know something is ending but nothing new is on the horizon, yet?

Beginnings, endings, transitions and even stagnation often bring confusion and a need for new perspective, a fresh understanding of our journey – how we arrived where we are, why things happened the way they did, or why something did not happen and what the future holds. But where do you seek the answers to these questions you are living out? What if your life and its journey held all the answers within it? All you need is a way to look at it that reveals the patterns.

Holistic Biography or Life Story work is a way to study your own life with the coach to reveal the themes, patterns, cycles, answers and perspectives you miss otherwise. Imagine your life as a river flowing through a changing landscape, where are you looking at it from? Mostly likely you are busy swimming in the river, or sitting by the bank to take a breather sometimes. Biography works invites you to step outside climb up on a hill to get a birds eye view that lets you see things you are not able to otherwise. It is difficult to get an overview of our lives when we are busy swimming – living it and caught up in the midst of the current story. But what if you could begin to see all of it – where it started, the landscape through which it flowed and where it’s headed? Is it a part of the landscape, dominating the landscape or lost in it? 

What is your story about?

Biography work is a way to review your life, to get a deeper understanding of how it flows, turns, where it feels stuck and what you carry from the past into the future. Through this work one is able to get a distance from one’s life and see it as a story you are living out. In the process you become aware of the major themes running through it, the patterns that seem to be repeating, the turning points, the gifts you got, the strengths, abilities, tendencies you developed, the challenges and tasks you came up against.

It is a transformative tool for deep self awareness and a broader perspective on your life that can inform the quality of your life by bringing an understanding and appreciation of even the most difficult life events. It helps you integrate the diverse experiences and consolidate the learnings into a coherent whole. A sense of ownership and gratitude for your story persist even after the work is long completed.

Biography Work works best for someone who feels a desire for self reflection and understanding their life journey. This happens naturally at crossroads, turning points and during times of crisis and change – voluntary or otherwise. Its a learning process with therapeutic side effects through the integration of challenges, difficulties as part of a developmental journey, thereby allowing for an acceptance and appreciation of the events, situations and people in your life – the good and the bad.

This is a guided process which takes place over a series of one on one sessions with me, each of which covers a 7 year phase in your life. This is not mere recollection or retelling but a fresh look with a new lens, which can reveal much more wealth and richness in the experiences that shaped you and your outlook.

If you feel ready to discover new aspects to your story and find what is unique in it then write to me at natbiocoach@gmail.com