Coaching

Are you interested in coaching?

I provide coaching through my community forum. The Coaching Archives are accessible to paying subscribers as well as to new members for a free 1-week trial. By making individual coaching available to others, I hope to keep the cost minimal and to help others who are not able to afford coaching. This means you can receive coaching by subscribing and reading the Coaching Archives or by requesting coaching for yourself. To receive personal coaching you must be a registered member of the forum, but it is not necessary to be a subscriber. Non-subscribers receiving coaching will have 1-month of access to the Coaching Archives.

Disclaimer!!
I am not a therapist; I have no training in counseling. I offer no guarantees with my coaching-advice.

Though there are patterns of similarity, each person is different. I would like to guarantee that whether your spouse returns or not, you will be successful. But I cannot say what you will or will not choose, but I will promise that you can be successful; the choice is your own. I offer generalities, referencing what worked for me or others whom I have assisted. Standing is not an easy path. The choice to Stand may be simple, but the actions are challenging. Midlife Crisis is your spouse's journey; embrace your own journey and you will reap the rewards.

What I am is a wife who has experienced my husband's midlife crisis with infidelity and survived with my marriage intact. My training is as a writer which is why I have been able to write the content on this site. I spend my time researching, writing, scanning forums and coaching. My interests as a writer prior to MLC were in Traditional Tales (Folk, Fairy, Fable...) and Mythological Studies; such interests included an interest in Jungian Psychology. These interests provided a foundational starting point for my MLC studies.

Terms
All public coaching threads are owned by The Hero's Spouse. At this time the archives are only available in thread form to subscribers, trial members and the staff. But I plan to eventually make discrete packages--such as all archives from a single quarter, semi-annually or yearly--available for sale as an e-book and/or for give-away with a minimum donation to the site. These will likely be the coaching posts from a single quarter in a download, with the most recent available quarter being available with a minimum donation and older archives available for sale. Example: Quarter 1 will be made available in Quarter 3.

By choosing to receive public coaching you are agreeing to these terms.

Private Coaching
Private Coaching works the same and looks the same as the Public Coaching with the exception that I will not post it in the Coaching Archives but will instead send it to you as a Private Message. I spend 6-8 hours on each initial Coaching Post and since Private Coaching will not have the Coaching Archives to offset the cost, there is no subscriber discount for Private Coaching. My preference is to do Public Coaching so that what I say to you can benefit others as well. I will thus tend to give priority to Public Coaching when I have several requests--though I always respond in order of payment received. I will not put you on hold for someone else when I have said I will respond and received payment.

Coaching Fees
• Subscribers: $39.95
• Non-Subscribers: $64.95
• Private: $100.00

Note that if you subscribe for 6 months at $39.95, you then qualify for the discounted coaching rate of $39.95. This means you can have access to the Coaching Archives and the private forum for 6 months for $79.90 rather then coaching for the nonsubscriber fee of $64.95 with Archive access for one month and no access to the private forum. That's a lot more access for an additional $14.95.

What Will You Get?
A Coaching Session is a single Coaching Response from me with a shorter follow-up for any questions you may have. Though I'm flexible, I do request that any follow-up be within a month of receiving the initial response. This is especially important for non-subscribers because you will only be given a month of access to the Coaching Archives--though I will extend it if I respond to a follow-up.

What Will My Statement Say?
Some of you may be concerned that your MLCer may see a suspicious statement on your credit or bank statement. The company name does not refer to midlife crisis or this website. I use a neutral name which I will not post here where snooping spouses can find it. But please be assured that I am doing my best to protect your transactions from MLCer suspicion.

How to Request Coaching
Please do not send me a Private Message to request Coaching; complete the form below.

What I need from you
• The title of your present story thread at the community forum
• A link to your present story thread
• Link your thread by copying from the address bar at the top of your screen when in your thread and paste it into the link box provided in the form. You may need to have two windows open to do this.
• If the thread is long or your situation history is not in the story thread, please provide a brief (~200 words or less) situation history.
• If you have a specific question or situation you want me to review, let me know. You may need to refer me to a certain post; you can do this by giving the post number in your thread.

I will review all submitted requests. If you are selected; I will send an email--to the address listed in the request form--requesting a payment through PayPal. The email is set-up with PayPal and will contain all necessary instructions. Thus far my schedule has permitted me the ability to answer all coaching requests.

Presently my turn-around is 3-7 days. In order to keep up with new requests and so that you are not wondering if I will select you and request money from you for many weeks out, I will send you a payment request within 3 days of receiving your request. I will not begin writing my coaching post until I have received payment. Please feel free to resubmit your request if you are not selected. In the future I hope to be available for urgent requests--for a higher fee--but it is always best to be active on the forums where others like yourself will provide you more instantaneous support and hugs.