Polina Shabarova. Life coach

Polina Shabarova. Life coach I help high-achieving women who feel drained stop performing and start living unapologetically✨

[True stories. Day 30] Hey friends, I'm inviting you to try the power of healing coaching.No one has to struggle alone. ...
08/10/2024

[True stories. Day 30] Hey friends, I'm inviting you to try the power of healing coaching.

No one has to struggle alone. If you feel you need support in getting through a hard season in your life, want to restore your power, or need non-judgemental space to process all your emotions, I'd be happy to help.

You can schedule a Free 15-min discovery call to share your inquiry and learn more about how I help my clients feel better.

I use emotion processing coaching and inner resource activation techniques that provide instant relief (if you've been to my sessions, you know what I mean).

As one of my clients said: "I don't know how you do it, but it feels like magic. You've returned me to myself".

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P.S. If you're ready to schedule your transformative session, I have a special offer for my Facebook friends (link in comments, valid till October 17).

[True stories. Day 29] I still have 2 days left in my 30-day challenge. Saved them for now and meanwhile took an intensi...
30/09/2024

[True stories. Day 29] I still have 2 days left in my 30-day challenge. Saved them for now and meanwhile took an intensive work-and-study break. to do this:

- Work part-time as a substitute teacher in a special education class at a local school.

- Interviewed some amazing female leaders for my psychology master's paper research and discovered something mind-blowing 🤯

- Got clear on what exactly I want to help my clients with as a coach

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Aaaaand I have a quick philosophical (yet tricky and harsh🤫 ) question for you that kept surfacing in my research and my work:

IF YOU HAD TO CHOOSE between 1) a happy blissful family AND 2) fulfilling work that lights you up and impacts millions of people, what would you do?

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Zero judgment here.

Feel free to DM me as this might be too sensitive to comment publicly.

You can just put 1) for family and 2) for work.

xo

Sept 4 [Day 24] With all the nonstop pain in this world (for my beloved Ukraine in particular, bleeding daily), I want t...
05/09/2024

Sept 4 [Day 24] With all the nonstop pain in this world (for my beloved Ukraine in particular, bleeding daily), I want to share this image.

I saw it shared online by a famous Ukrainian psychologist Svitlana Roiz (whose husband is at the frontlines defending Ukraine among other heroes).

It's a heart that learned to grow flowers from every pain it's feeling.
It hurts, but it grows life and beauty out of hurt.
And keeps living.

Let’s not forget who we are.

We can do magic.
We can co-create amazing things.
We can source our power from the eternal Source (whatever you call it).
We can turn pain – into beauty, hate – into forgiveness, anger – into kindness…

We can keep loving when it seems no love is left in this world.
We create the reality we want to live in.
We can heal ourselves and others.
We can do hard things.

Let’s keep living.
Let’s keep loving.

This is the only way.

[Trues stories. Day ] When I opened a language center for 6-month old babies, many people thought I was crazy. Including...
30/08/2024

[Trues stories. Day ] When I opened a language center for 6-month old babies, many people thought I was crazy. Including my business partner back then. So… I did alone.

I believed in the idea, had a clear vision, and it was enough.

When my oldest daughter was born, we decided to raise her bilingual. We started adding English-only days with her, and by her 6 months I felt we needed company.

As I was an English teacher already, the collusion was a no-brainer. I rented a new room for babies only, bought a carpet, kid-friendly furniture, a bunch of Montessori-inspired materials, made some DIY crafts, got a huge whiteboard on the babies’ eye-level and made a post in an online mom forum.

In a month we had a few groups with 6-12-month old students.

I built an original curriculum over summer having studied a bunch of other programs, and launched the thing.

It turned into a fun and successful BabyBoom kids club that grew to 70 students over 2 years.

We had baby- and toddler-friendly classes, family language clubs, mom training, kids concerts, and even outdoor classes.

It was fun and would have still been thriving if it were not for the russian invasion of Crimea when we had to leave it all behind and move to Kyiv.

It did halt our bilingual lifestyle because of all the fuss and stress, but it did bring results.

My daughter was able to activate all her knowledge in a snap we moved to the USA. She started reading in English after 2 months in American pre-K when she was 5 and clearly has a love for languages learning Italian and Korean and being fluent in Ukrainian and russian.

There is nothing impossible if you believe in something with all your heart. No one knows better than you. Trust your heart.

Love.

Aug 29 [Trues stories. Day 18] In January my friend and I led two support groups for children and adults in Ukraine afte...
29/08/2024

Aug 29 [Trues stories. Day 18] In January my friend and I led two support groups for children and adults in Ukraine after getting certified in the “Children and War” training program.

It’s a curriculum that teaches basic coping techniques to deal with anxiety, fear, intrusive thoughts, sleep disorders, and other stress-related issues.

What I’ve learned and witnessed as a program facilitator:

1/ Deep human connections heal.
2/ Ukrainians are amazing and innately resilient.
3/ Our mental struggles need to be normalized.
4/ Abnormal reactions to abnormal circumstances are normal (!).
5/ All our emotions are functional. They help us make sense of what is happening.
6/ You are not your problem. You are not your emotions. You are not your thoughts.
7/ You’re not crazy if you’re having certain symptoms, your mind is coping and adapting.
8/ You are not alone. There is ALWAYS someone happy to support you. Look for them.
9/ Meeting basic physical needs (sleep, food, movement, shelter) in hard times is already huge.
10/ Every healthy way to distance yourself from your struggle and watch it as an observer is a great first step.
11/ We have unlimited inner resources to cope, self-heal, and do hard things, and we can learn how to do it.

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P.S. With so much love, honor, and gratitude to the fallen Ukrainian Heroes on this remembrance day. Glory to Ukraine!🇺🇦

Curious if these are on your top-list too or what are your recommendations?📚
28/08/2024

Curious if these are on your top-list too or what are your recommendations?📚

[True stories. Day 3] What I learnt from the miles of mountain hikes as a child… 🌊I was born in Crimea, a blissful place...
28/08/2024

[True stories. Day 3] What I learnt from the miles of mountain hikes as a child…

🌊I was born in Crimea, a blissful place decorated by the warm Black Sea and Crimean Mountains -- the landscapes from the Greek myths.

The brightest sensory memories I have are from that nature and those hikes:

-the whisper of waves and gravel beaches,

-cicadas chirping over the sea from the heated cliffs of Balaklava,

-and the turquoise pastel that smudged my fingers when my dad taught me to sketch seascapes.

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My parents took me on hikes since I was a baby.

We slept in caves,
in tents on the beach (got flooded by the tide from time to time),
baked potatoes in the fire,
cleaned the hiking pots with sand in the creeks,
brewed herbal tea on fire
and picked up wild strawberries…

It imprinted that bliss in my sensory system forever and still helps me recharge when I feel drained, lost and exhausted.

Even though those landscapes are not mine anymore and I can't visit Crimea until Ukraine gets it back, all those memories and imprints are mine for life.

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🧠When working with coaching clients, such umbilical cords they have with nature are essential in self-regulation, grounding, and finding inner strength.

This can be anything:

the joy and bliss of walking in the wheat field,
hiding in the cherry orchard,
splashing in the river shallows,
watching dragonflies,
smelling sunflowers🌻…

⚓️⚓️ ⚓️ What are your anchors that you can recreate any time to feel safe and blissful? What nature recharges you the most?

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(the picture is a true story too: we climbed there with my husband on our 1st wedding anniversary when I was 6 months pregnant with Alice🙃 this is Cape Fiolent, Crimea, Ukraine)

[True stories. Day 14] I'm studying female leadership for my master's research paper. Here are some of their main strugg...
26/08/2024

[True stories. Day 14] I'm studying female leadership for my master's research paper.

Here are some of their main struggles that I explore in my work:

👉DOUBT (“I know my vision and my goals but not sure if I can make it/ or if I’m ready to sacrifice what’s needed to get there”).

👉LOST FOCUS/ DISCONNECT FROM VISION (“I’m not sure I’m going in the right direction/ not sure where I want to go”).

👉CHRONIC STRESS (“I know where I’m going, I have what it takes, but it feels so hard at times”).

Every piece has intense emotional components that every (female) leader faces, – like shame, fear, frustration, despair, guilt.., BUT also courage, vulnerability, curiosity, confidence, belief…

It's a complex matter and I'll be sharing some more structured findings later on.

P.S. I'd also appreciate your input🙏 Please share the first 3 words that come to mind when you hear the phrase “female leader”?

So curious…

[True stories. Day 12] 3 micro-actions that help me regulate when feeling anxious, nervous, or unfocused:→ Focus on feel...
25/08/2024

[True stories. Day 12] 3 micro-actions that help me regulate when feeling anxious, nervous, or unfocused:

→ Focus on feeling the cool/warm air coming in and out of your nostrils.

→ Rub the tips of your fingers slowly. Feel their ribbed texture.

→ Move each toe from big one to little and back, one by one.

Repeat.

Best done with eyes closed.

Might require some practice.

Try and tell me if it feels too easy or instead too hard for you.

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