The particular suffering of achieving what you were supposed to achieve and still feeling empty is rarely validated. People assume you're ungrateful or dramatic. Coaching takes it seriously as the real and important signal it is.
Browse coaches →Coaching for chronic unhappiness despite success works at the level of values and meaning. The gap between what you're doing and what you actually care about is usually the source. Identifying that gap and closing it is the work.
People who look successful by every external measure and feel hollow. People who can't explain to others why they're unhappy when they 'have so much.' People who have been performing a version of happiness for years and are exhausted by it.
Often the two overlap. If there's persistent low mood, loss of pleasure, or inability to function, clinical evaluation is important. Many people with this experience aren't clinically depressed. They're living out of alignment with what matters to them.
That's precisely where coaching starts. Identifying what actually matters to you is the first task, and it's a more active process than most people expect.
Not necessarily. Some people find they need to make significant changes. Many discover that smaller, targeted shifts in how they're living make an enormous difference.
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