I'm Jonnie Pugh, my mission is to help you find direction in your life and to empower you to take action that will lead you to think and feel differently about yourself and the world around you.
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Welcome to Jonnie Pugh Coaching. I offer a free 20 minute discovery call that enables you to ask any questions about the coaching process and find out how I can gain some clarity, confidence and direction for your life, career or relationships. I want us both to be sure we are a good fit for each other and that you are ready to be guided towards your goals and the freedom we are all searching for.
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My Story
The challenges I faced in my formative years left me with high anxiety and insomnia but also a
hard work ethic, discipline and resilience. These positive and negative attributes played a huge
part in how I saw the world around me, the choices I made and the way I lived my life.
I had played a lot of sports in my youth and fitness continued to be a big part of my coping
mechanisms through out my life. I had also had a large friendship group probably due to all the
sports and socialised a lot. Excessive alcohol, recreational drugs but also strict physical training
and nutrition regimes was an exhausting way to live life. It was a punishing regime and driven on
by the belief of not being good enough.
I seemed to grind through life not really enjoying much or committing to things. I worked hard and I worked out hard. I didn’t find much meaning in anything else. I just turned up and got done what I needed to and that was that. Every week was the same, over and over, year after year.
On the outside people thought he’s done alright. I always had an attractive partner, enough money for what I wanted and was always in great shape. But inside I always suffered with anxiety and horrendous sleep which made most things in life difficult. I avoided challenges and as years past I did less and less not finding joy in anything. I made my world smaller and smaller. Like a lot of people my age my social interactions reduced and so did my friendship group although I didn’t
really notice because I had a particularly sociable job as a personal trainer.
I didn’t really “do” emotions either. If I felt anything I just pushed it down. When you push away painful emotions you push away the rewarding, fulfilling ones too and the suppressed still come back. I had a very narrow emotional experience of life. Those stoic qualities I admired in myself became a hindrance ensuring I just kept grinding away and enduring an unfulfilling life. One lacking in challenge or achievement.
I was incapable of intimacy in relationships and probably attracted people of similar unhealthy behaviours so didn’t have my beliefs and behaviours challenged. It wasn’t a wholesome, fulfilling existence.
I don’t remember what tipped me over but I had had enough and wanted better for my life. I had studied psychology my whole life but it was so academic and I couldn’t quite apply it in the real world. I wanted more. I got a 121 transformational coach, I attended events and took courses and it all came together. The impact was immediate and felt in every cell of my body and every moment of my life.Transformation is a precious gift. One I wanted to share with everyone and here we are. I had been a personal trainer for over 20 years and thought I had made a positive impact on a lot of peoples lives. My transformational journey showed me I was maxing out the physical for myself and my clients to the detriment of the emotional, mental and spiritual. There was so much healing and growth being left on the shelf for myself and those around me. Now I appreciate what I have and the world around me, I live in the now and put my energy towards the areas of my life that I have control over. I want to guide you to this place too.
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GRAEME (41)
Everything i have just now I dreamt of 10 to 15 years ago or at least wanted all of this. Great wife, amazing kids, good health, good job, superb family and friends, hobbies, holidays, nice car, few wee toys not quite a sit on lawn mower but i'm comfortable and yet I found myself struggling, pretty miserable, not feeling like im doing anything well, Dad, Husband, son, brother, friend etc.
My issues I just thought it must just be the same for everyone, are we all miserable, generally speaking life is pretty heavy going, working 5 days a week with only 2 off, paying taxes, a mortgage, paying into a pension that i might not even be here to enjoy, worried about the world in the future that we are leaving for my kids, societal issues, government, even the bloody pot holes muddling through trying to keep running on the treadmill of life. then coupled with the guilt of having everything as good as i do in my life and feeling either do I deserve it or why am i miserable or scunnered, or other people would give their right arm to have it as good as i do.
I felt like a boiling pot that is just on the brink of boiling over, never feeling like I particularly have any of sussed out.
I'm nowhere near thinking i need Medical or mental health help but in typical west of Scotland Male. Couldnt admit to it.
For me the work you and I have is a soft touch approach, its a conversation, a trusted friend, if it was called mental health i would think two things. i don't need that, im not mental or I don't want to take up time with a professional that someone else really needs.
I feel with the work that Jonnie and I have done together has allowed me focus on the things that are important making sure i dont let anything else get in the way on getting these things right, that's providing
ignoring or not letting things bother me that i can't do anything about. that was the key for me.
About a year ago a work colleague said to me, Have you ever let anything go?
I honestly couldn't think of one example where i had. it really hit me hard thinking about that, i discussed this with Jonnie and we working through some mechanisms or ideas of what i could do to let go.
The key difference with Jonnie is he has the coaching skills to understand what kind of person i am and what kind of approach suits me best, I'm a visual learner, an extrovert a people pleaser(try to be), emotional. his approach to get the best out of me Physically and mentally is tailored to my needs. it works, it's sometimes hard to hear but it works.
i feel with the skills i have gained, the coping mechanisms, the reasoning, the explanation, the justification, the acceptance, i feel better equipped to be able to cope with anything life throws at me and if I don't, i know i have a safe pair of hands in jonnie that can guide, support, empower and ultimately help me find the key to the open the door.
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