Coaching

Adult Glass Children

Were you A Glass child?

A glass child is someone who grew up with a high-needs sibling, and as a result was overlooked as if they were made of glass. In this scenario, the glass child often does not get their emotional and/or physical needs met because the family is focused on caring for the high-needs sibling.

As a Glass Child you might have experienced:

 

  • Feeling like no one was paying attention to you as a kid

  • Having a lot of responsibility around the house

  • Being responsible for your high-needs sibling

  • Providing medical care to your high-needs sibling

  • Supporting your parents emotionally

  • Being the mediator of fights in your household

  • Abuse from your sibling or family

  • Neglect from your parents and community

  • Little to no help with schoolwork

  • Deep guilt for being born healthy

  • Feeling like you could never do enough

  • Feeling like you could not share your emotions and needs

How Are you as an Adult?

Do you recognize yourself below? Glass Children identify with:

Book A Breakthrough Call

I offer a free 30-minute Breakthrough call to give you a taste of the InnerAlly process. This is a coaching call, where we will address the issue of your choice.

What We Will Address

  • Emotional Neglect and/or Manipulation
  • The Effects of Parentification
  • Overwhelm, Burnout and Perfectionism
  • Overgiving and Codependence
  • Feeling Stuck, Procrastination
  • Unhealthy Coping, Compulsions

Is Coaching Right for You?

Grab a coffee and pull up your zoom, because we are going to make this process deep, meaningful, and fun.

  • Coaching is an active process– each week you will learn, explore, and practice new skills.
  • Coaching is a collaborative process– you have full autonomy to choose your path forward. I may suggest practices to help you, but you always have full decision making power to choose what is right for you.
  • Coaching is forward thinking– We will be working together on goals for your life. In the process we may dive back into your past to help us understand thoughts, emotions or patterns of behaviors, but the focus is always looking forward to create a better life.
the process

What happens in a session?

Each session begins with a check-in to explore how you are feeling and any issues you are currently facing. Often we will circle back to the previous session and talk about what you were working on over the past week, and if you noticed any shifts or breakthroughs. You will guide me to the topics that you want to address, and we will work together to create inner language and strategies to work with your current situation. The sessions end with an agreement of what you will be exploring for the week.

Intake Form

Filling out the intake form will allow me to get to know you and the issues you want to address so we can really jump into the free 30 minute coaching session.

Breakthrough Call

In this free 30 minute coaching session we will explore if you are a good fit for the InnerAlly process, and address an issue of your choice.

Coaching Agreement

The next step is to sign the coaching agreement which explains the InnerAlly Coaching process and provides you privacy and other protections.

Pay & Schedule 

Payment can be made with credit cards, Paypal, Venmo or Zelle.  We will schedule a time to meet weekly for the next 6 weeks.

Clients Love InnerAlly

“Cynthia helped me to reignite my spark, and throughout the process she did so with professionalism, empathy, encouragement and the added bonus of shared laughter.  She is a joy to work with.
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Philip Tottenham

Founder, Montessori’s Torch

“I was in a bad pit and you reached in and pulled me outta that sucker! One of the main ways was to allow me to acknowledge in a deep, deep way that I am good, and I need my own compassion. I now have so many great tools to help. I really feel like a new person, re-newed with a spirit for LIFE and a zeal for JOY.”

Christine gautreauz, MSW

Women Connected in Wisdom

“The InnerAlly cards are an AMAZING tool! I use them with clients and I’m having great results teaching the process of creating supportive and kind inner voice. Plus, clients can carry the InnerAlly cards in their pockets!!”

Christine gautreauz, MSW

Women Connected in Wisdom

It’s Time to Move Forward

Don’t stay mired in your own stories, let the InnerAlly process release you from your inner chains, and set you on a path of success.