Who doesn’t love a rainbow? To visualise the development process and oneself as a human rainbow makes this crazy life more beautiful.

A rainbow is a symbol of hope and beauty. The sun shining through the rain. Which leads to another very important aspect of the Full Spectrum philosophy. In order to create the rainbow, in order to live full spectrum, we need the sunshine and the rain, the joy and the tears.

The depth of our ability to feel sadness is the depth we can go to with our joy, the depth of our ability to grieve is the depth we can go to with our love. Often we find that our greatest gifts are found in our greatest challenges – like the oyster grappling with the sand to create the pearl.

Without sunshine and rain plants and trees do not grow and we are very similar ~ we need a mix of life experiences in order to grow; sometimes, in retrospect, an experience we judged as ‘bad’ can actually lead to a lot of growth, a wealth of skills, greater intimacy with ourselves and others and a sense of self worth and strength that we did not have before. We don’t ‘get rid of’ the negative to have the positive – we integrate and accept both fully (learning all the tools and techniques to do this authentically) and come into even greater balance, harmony and true beauty and authenticity.

This is why at Full Spectrum we steer away from anything that has a ‘new age’ philosophy or a focus on false positivity or ostracising parts of ourselves that we don’t feel serve us (all parts of us serve us in some way and can be integrated – they can of course be offered new tasks if their ‘serving’ is perhaps a little misguided or off track!).

Within Full Spectrum Life Coaching™, story, allegory and metaphor are often utilised. Our minds grasp these images more easily, we can relate to them and we can interpret them in our own way and make them our own. Our subconscious minds can only communicate in images and symbols and this is where our deepest patterns and beliefs are held.