by Yvette Eastman
In her book The Food Reading Coach, Jane Sheehan invites you to explore both your feet and your personal style as you progress through her coaching manual. Because her easy communication style, you will learn how you can help others and your self to overcome emotional limitations so you can help others to become more balanced, more effective in attaining their dreams and more productive in their choices.
The Foot Reading Coach is an effort to dialogue among parents, teachers and practitioners, fashioning a tool that speaks to all in a form they will understand and welcome into their lives. It clearly instructs the reader in different ways to inform and instruct an awareness of self. It provides a way to create a space where practitioner and client can share their experiences and choose to change behaviours that are no longer effective. Ultimately, the higher goal is to instill an understanding that all health conditions and emotions (good and otherwise) start and stay within the control of the individual.
Many highly skilled and experienced Reflexology practitioners, parents and care- givers, are now using Foot Reading to help people to help themselves. The protocol will continue to grow in reach and popularity as more and more individuals discover the benefits of this remarkably safe, efficient and effective tool for reaching out to people. Jane’s book will walk you through the steps to improve your coaching along with your foot reading skills. Her coaching extends to you the reader, as she tells you:
- how to explain something without causing stress to the listener,
- how to ask questions
- when to talk and when to be silent,
- how to use language to be most effective
- how to state an opinion instead of a fact
- how to stay involved yet objective
- how to start foot reading parties
- how to blend your foot reading and coaching into other therapies
... and a myriad of other necessary skills for the effective coach. Jane explains that when coaching is mastered it can become a familiar, trusted ally in self healing.
What I enjoyed most was Jane’s personal touch and her willingness to be open about her own self to explain her behaviours and emotions Jane presents her material in a completely non-judgmental fashion with a gentle conversational tone. She has also added to her book her many skills from many workshops and many sources. I recognized NLP components, and many others. It was so good to hear many of the concepts I use in my teachings mirrored in this one. It validated my information and added to it.
Reflexologists are always searching for different resources to add to their skills. Foot Reading concepts have the potential to change one’s emotional and physical path in life. Jane’s methodology allows you to experience and share your efforts towards that reality, and to become a proficient coach.
Jane uses many self-anecdotes to explain what she means. This brings her closer to you as “the woman-next-door” the neighbour with whom you can spend some wonderful moments. I felt as if we were around the breakfast table, sharing a “cuppa” and wonderful words of friendly wisdom. Jane’s honesty, her simplicity and her humour allow for a pleasant and informative read. What a wonderful experience to read a book not just about Reflexology but how to help a person become effective as a foot reader by the way he or she acts, speaks and presents information and how to become a coach. Reading this book was an amazing, delightful and engrossing experience. It captivated me so that I could hardly put it down!
Thank you Jane Sheehan!