Testimonials
“Lisa helped me discern my true values and move my life in a direction that better suited them. The exercises she provided were well-crafted and enlightening. Lisa is adept at asking the right questions to help me discover answers for myself, which seemed to reside deep within me all along. I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to work with Lisa!” M.O.
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"Coaching with Lisa allowed me to understand myself in new ways. I found my coaching sessions with Lisa very empowering and enlivening. She guided me to identify my life values and purpose, which form the foundation in the creation of everyday manageable goals. She followed my thinking and expression of feelings with empathy and respect. We created a wonderfully productive working relationship based on mutual trust." G.R.
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"Lisa helped me discover my beautiful self. With her wisdom, I have learned how to reinforce and amplify my inner beauty. I feel energized and excited to embrace all that I am. Thank you, Lisa!" E.S.
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"I started working with Lisa after completing 30+ years of government service in public health. She helped me explore and gain clarity about my post “retirement” work and life goals, and was a great sounding board to help me assess work options. She identified some tools and strategies to help me address some big personal challenges and is always encouraging, patient and supportive. I strongly recommend Lisa Rubenstein as a life coach." S.P.
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"I approached life coaching as something of an experiment. After all, what did I, as a retired person, need coaching for? Hadn't I already achieved my life's goals by successfully retiring? Not hardly. Retirement is a process of negotiating new challenges, like any other life change. The structures of ordinary life might have changed - I no longer needed to worry about earning a living. But that didn't mean I couldn't, or shouldn't, set goals to help make my life in retirement a more fulfilling one.
Working together with Lisa, I established obtaining an Italian driver's license as an important goal. Since I have been living here in Italy for three years, under Italian law, my US driver's license was no longer valid. To obtain an Italian license, I needed to pass both a written test and a road test. Both are offered only in Italian, a language which I am competent in but hardly fluent.
I had never worked up the courage to start the process, and had in fact convinced myself that I could not succeed. And even though I don't need to drive every day, the lack of a license meant that I was entirely dependent on others whenever I needed to get somewhere by car. Getting a license was therefore an important milestone of independence - just as important now as it had been when I first got a license as a young adult.
Lisa helped me work through my fears and hesitancy, unpacking the entire process of obtaining the license into manageable pieces. She supported me through the various obstacles that came my way and celebrated with my eventual success. Although I had help from my husband and other friends along the way, I don't think I would have seen things through to the end without Lisa.
It is no easy thing to guide rather than lecture. But this is Lisa's strength - she doesn't tell you what to do but helps you find your own way.
I am very happy to have worked with her." L.D.