Core Aligned  Coaching

Core aligned coaching connects you with your inner guide, leading you to inner strength, wisdom, and a life of joy, balance, and fulfillment.
You may feel like there is something more to your life but don’t have the roadmap to get there.

Maybe you feel stressed and overwhelmed and convinced there is no way out, trapped on the hamster wheel of endless to-dos and shoulds, not sure how you even got there.  Or maybe you lie awake at night, anxious, or feel like there is no way off the crazy wheel. 

You are not alone. I’ve been there.  I was working a stressful corporate job that left me feeling ten steps behind and running even faster to keep up.  I forgot about the things that brought me joy. I forgot my true self; it was covered in a corporate mask. I didn’t see another way, another path.  Overwhelm became anxiety.  Anxiety became panic.  I felt trapped, inauthentic, and alone. 

For the past ten years, I have been helping others find calm and clarity through mindfulness and yoga practices. I have been teaching them to find the calm eye of their storms of thoughts and emotions.

In addition to my training in mindfulness practices, I am also a certified mental health coach, helping you align the different parts and aspects of yourself, even the difficult ones, with your core being.

Diane DeRuggiero

Core Aligned Coaching incorporates mindfulness, breath, and movement with NLP (Neuro-linguistic Programming) techniques to help you find your resilient core. Core Align Coaching delivers coaching within the ethical and coaching standards of the International Coaches Federation (ICF).

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Coaching FAQs

Coaching is a creative partnership between the coach and the client intended to inspire thought and allow the client to maximize their personal and professional potential. A Coaching relationship includes:

  • Discovering what the client truly wishes to achieve
  • encourages client self-discovery
  • seeks client-generated solutions and strategies
  • holds clients responsible and accountable for the outcome
  • includes setting goals for the term of engagement with the coach and individual sessions
  • includes a deeper exploration of beliefs, patterns of behavior
  • The coach provides accountability to enable the client to stay committed to action.

  • Coaching is not Mentoring. Mentoring involves guidance from the mentor, a subject matter expert, to the mentee.
  • Coaching is not consulting, as consulting provides solutions to a problem. ’
  • Coaching is not training, as training provides a skill with pre-prepared content.
  • Coaching is not Therapy. Therapists diagnose and treat mental disorders. Coaches are not licensed to diagnose and treat mental illness. Coaches provide insight and support to help clients meet their goals and overcome non-productive habits or beliefs.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) gives you a roadmap for your mind.  Neurology refers to how your mind processes information and emotions.  Linguistics is the language you use to communicate to others and yourself internally.  Programming is the subconscious process you create based on past experiences.  These programs run beneath your awareness and shape your current experiences and reactions.

I can help you recode your inner programming to find new outcomes.  I’ll help you break out of the ruts and stuck places.  I’ll help you manage the feeling of overwhelm.  I’ll help you communicate with the core of your being, the unshakeable you, and create the life you were meant to live.

Mental Health Coaching, also known as Inner dynamics or parts work, addresses the different parts of your identity, subpersonalities,  that may have different needs or priorities.  For example, one part of you knows that eating chocolate cake is not on your healthy diet list, but another part tells you to eat it anyway because it thinks you are too uptight. The interactions between these parts impact your thoughts, feelings, and actions. Mental Health coaching utilizes your core self to negotiate with the difficult parts.

Expect me to help you focus on the goal or goals you would like to achieve. I will help you identify and clear any roadblocks, like limiting beliefs or resources needed that keep you from achieving your goal, look at the available resources, and help you break the goal into manageable bite-size chunks.

Coaching offers self-discovery and a chance to step into your full potential. Coaching sessions with me are one hour, during which I will work with you to identify the goals or roadblocks and help you find the possibilities.

There may be more than one coaching session, depending on the size of the goal.

I deliver coaching, 1-to-1, through 60-minute Zoom meetings. I offer individual coaching sessions, or for clients with larger goals, I offer packages of five sessions.

You can book a free 30-minute session with me to determine how I can assist you. During this informational session, we can discuss my approach to coaching, and I can answer your questions. Click the link on this page to schedule.

I received training in NLP (neurolinguistic programming) and am certified as a Master NLP coach. I am an accredited Master Life Coach with the ICF (International Coaching Federation), which provides a rigorous framework for ethical, quality coaching.

I am a certified mental health coach. Life coaches help clients with goals, accountability, strategies for success, and overcoming common obstacles in the way of success. Mental health coaches can help clients overcome non-clinical mental health concerns and work with behaviors like self-sabotage or compulsive eating.

I am also a certified meditation and yoga instructor, and I combine movement and mindfulness into my offerings.