I first approached Evelina for life coaching sessions in late spring 2020, as I was struggling with the consequences of the initial stages of the pandemic. After my lifestyle changed completely overnight, I found all of my beliefs being challenged and experienced a lot of anger at the rupture.
Evelina suggested some simple tools to take me through my days before we even started the life coaching sessions. Evelina is very generous with sharing knowledge and an excellent listener. Even as I tired at times of listening to myself, she displayed unflinching professionalism throughout and worked with me towards personal empowerment. I am not the easiest person to work with as I tend to have strong views and question everything that doesn’t agree with me. Life coaching with Evelina has been a process of questioning back my own assumptions and a realisation that my state of mind is a choice. More importantly, I learned how to tweak my brain processes so that they serve me and the people I care about.
My connection with Evelina has been truly transformational. This does not mean that feelings of frustration or sadness suddenly disappear. It rather means allowing them just enough space for investigation, and then implementing simple habits that make a massive difference in my wellbeing. Relationships with my family have improved enormously, and for the first time ever I am coming close to starting my own business. I cannot recommend enough life coaching with Evelina. All you need is a desire for change and an open mind. Evelina will do an excellent job helping with the rest!
Athanasia T.
Evelina is a magnificent coach and I can not thank her enough for the impact her coaching made on my life!
We had weekly sessions for 12 months back in 2019-2020 and my life has greatly improved since from various aspects, including financial, relationships and health.
I’ve wanted to buy an investment property for over a decade, yet I was never able to save for a deposit. The property price in Sydney have grown year on year, hence the dream to actually own a property where I wanted, close to the beach seemed impossible to materialize. It only took 5 months since I started coaching sessions with Evelina, who helped me understand the money related beliefs/mind barriers/patterns and becoming lense focussed to achieve my goal. My income has increased 60% and as a result, I’ve managed to become the owner of the property in the location that I wanted in Sydney!
During the coaching with Evelina, my relationships with colleagues have improved too and most importantly, I met my husband, the man of my dreams, in 2021.
I’ve been having a yoyo with my weight ever since I was teenage and working with Eva, I’ve learned how to recognize and accept my emotions like never before, which converted in losing the ’emotional suppressed” weight without much effort. I’m almost 39 now and I’ve never felt better about my health and body.
I have been feeling energised every morning and have clarity for the day to day and my future ever since our sessions. We still touch base on monthly or bi-monthly bases when I need some insights and guidance to work on some aspect of my life.
Thank you so much for coming into my life and for empowering and effective coaching sessions.
Raimonda I.
Evelina is an incredible coach. I have spent the last 14 or so Sunday evenings having one to one personal coaching sessions over Zoom discussing everything from relationships to starting my own business.
Evelina is calm, thought provoking, motivational and action oriented… all delivered in a very caring, supportive and non-judgmental manner.
I have learnt so much from each session… the lessons have been countless and I know that I will be able to take these lessons and the tools that she has taught me to achieve my personal growth goals.
I feel mentally stronger, more compassionate of myself and my self-belief has rocketed! I have always been very confident and resilient… however I lacked self-confidence/esteem in areas of relationships- partners, friends, family… I had many self-limiting/destructive thoughts that used to stop me from achieving the emotionally stable life that I wanted to lead.
I have wanted to set up my own business for the past 15 years and I feel much more confident in my mind-set and personal abilities due to the dedicated time that Evelina has spent with me coaching me to set goals and believing in myself
Thank you Evelina I cannot express to you how much I appreciate your help and support. You are a fantastic coach.
Emma B.
I highly recommend Evelina as a coach. She has a great ability to assess situations quickly and offer concrete tools, processes and plans of action to enable me to move forward. I always feel very motivated and empowered after talking to her. Thank you Evelina!
Victoria A.
I was sceptical about coaching at first. However, my dear friend who is a coach herself and whom I trust, recommended it when I had events in my life that disbalanced me. I am generally an anxious person, who often worries even about things beyond my control.
Coaching has helped me to start a more conscious and deliberate life as well as process external negativity rather internalise it. I have learnt, that if negative emotions arise, we can just embrace them and experience them rather than resist them by distracting ourselves with pointless things and activities. It is important to ask yourself a question: “What is the worst that can happen?”. Peace and fulfilment come from within and not from external factors and people.
Things do not change instantaneously, and deliberate actions need to be taken to change the way we think, however, by consistently working with our thoughts we can find internal peace and confidence. I was surprised how just by monitoring and questioning your thoughts, things might appear different to what they initially seemed. Undesirable things that are outside our control will happen, but how we feel about them and react to them will depend on what we think about them and this is a very powerful thing to know and apply in our life.
The game-changer for me was ‘the Model’ itself and how it teaches that everything starts with a thought and this is the beginning of the massive change to follow. I am proud to be happy within my own skin. I have become more confident with my decisions and actions and managed to keep catastrophic thinking at bay.
Anybody who would like to try coaching, I would say, have a go and do not do it half-heartedly. Dive in and enjoy the results- they will come. Evelina is very talented. She knows how to get inside your brain. Coaching is a way of life for her and she is excellent at it.
Simona R.
Before coaching, my life was full of chaos, anxiety, tension, uncertainty, disappointment… I felt like I was balancing on a tight rope between my duties, desires, beating myself up, and at the same time thinking that I shouldn’t be complaining about my life. It seemed like I was swimming in the ocean, not knowing which wave will tumble me, and how deep, then getting back to the surface waiting until the next wave comes.
I was hesitant in the beginning because I had doubts if I’d be able to dedicate time for sessions and daily exercises in my chaotic daily routine. However, I was also clear that I wanted to feel and live my life differently. And that the point where I was at the time was not satisfactory for me… and that I needed help as I wasn’t able to shift from it by myself alone.
Coaching helped me realize that it is possible to change your mindset and stop making dramas.
First and foremost for me was to recognize and manage the chaos of thoughts in my brain. And understand that emotions do not control me. By becoming aware of my thoughts and thinking patterns I had to understand where the emotions are coming from… And that by processing my emotions I can consciously choose the desired path… Also, that although I cannot control other people or change the circumstances, I can always change my attitude towards them.
I was surprised how theoretical advice I’ve heard for many years took a defined shape – models, methods, exercises. At first, when I just began my coaching journey, it was a discovery for me that coaching would not bring me to the happily-ever-after world, but it is rather a toolkit that helps everyone walk their path consciously. I’m glad that Evelina is my coach on this journey. As a coach, she picks meticulously, which coaching tools I need at the exact moment, even when I resist or don’t want to acknowledge it.
Since I’ve started coaching I have much more inner peace and stability. Also, my self-confidence and trust in my own decisions have increased.
One of the biggest impacts coaching made in my life is that by getting to know myself better and bringing more awareness into my life I can choose what kind of person I want to be. And that it is ME, who forms and defines myself, and not other people or my environment.
I’m glad this journey is still ongoing because every session provides me with new knowledge.
One of the tools that have been a game-changer for me, especially when I’m experiencing strong and negative emotions, is to look for a thought causing that emotion. You learn a lot of interesting things about yourself. The other tool is planning, a work in progress for me.
If you’re hesitant about coaching, I’d encourage you to give it a try. And in those moments when it seems like you know it all, there’s nothing new, let go of resistance and give it a go. It’s so worth it!
B.
My life before I was coached by Evelina was bleak. I felt deeply depressed without feeling any purpose in life.
I did not know much about life coaching but I was desperate to try anything at the time. And the fact that Evelina was someone I have known and respected made my decision easier.
She is bright yet humble and compassionate. Her well structured method of coaching style led me to face issues that never occurred to me before. Then Evelina led me through a step by step approach to deal with each issue until I could see the light of a solution.
I think it is vitally important that we get the objective view of experts to help lead us out of the darkness when we are lost in a rabbit hole of depression and anxiety. I highly recommend Evelina as a life coach.
J.
I began my coaching sessions with Evelina looking for help and a solution. I was feeling stuck in a vicious cycle of spinning in the same thoughts, feeling the same feelings and emotions, seeing the same perspective on my situation, and being able to only see the same solutions that were not leading anywhere. I felt condemned, and it seemed like nothing would ever change.
I was able to evaluate my situation objectively only once I started coaching because I was also in a habit of lying to myself that everything was fine even though it wasn’t.
I was afraid to face the actual situation, denying anything that could cause me negative emotions, however, they persisted. I became an emotional eater, trying to numb my emotions with food rather than feel them. I was gaining weight, which caused me even more negative emotions and tension, then I’d eat more to cover them, starting another vicious cycle.
However, everything was in my own mind. Coaching sessions with Evelina helped me come out of my tunnel and view myself, my circumstances, my options, and my possibilities in a new light. I learned tools to change those images I had in my head. And that’s how a new life began for me because once I changed those images and the thoughts accompanying them, my feelings and emotions related to them changed as well. I started generating new thoughts, feeling different emotions, and finding different solutions, which brought me different results.
One tool I’m using daily is watching my thoughts, and this awareness now is automatic. When I feel a negative emotion, I’m able to catch myself quickly and find the thought causing my emotion. And then, I can consciously direct my mind toward a mindset that serves me more.
Another practice I love a lot is noticing my small victories daily and celebrating them.
Objectively looking my circumstances have not changed – I still have my family, kids, my work, and all the responsibilities and commitments. I still have instability in my business, and even less predictability in some areas, nevertheless, now I have a lot of tools – some I use daily, others less often – which enabled me to assess my circumstances, situations, and my own role in them in a completely different way.
I got freed from two main things: automatic negative thoughts, which I wouldn’t even notice previously, making me feel hopeless, and emotional eating. Now I feel lighter – not only because my body is not burdened by the extra weight and heavy thoughts – but because now I feel brave and strong, as this experience gave me a lot of self-confidence.
And one more very important thing – after making those changes, I felt an enormous amount of energy being released. The energy, which I used to waste on all the negative thoughts, feelings, and other negativities, now I can use for the things I truly want. And the more I use it, the more energy I have!