Ana López Román: "It is essential to be aware of our emotions"

Coaching is usually associated with the field of companies, but beyond this image based on stereotypes, there are the many facets of the coach. In fact, the types of problems in which these professionals intervene are relatively diverse, and many of them do not even have to do with work.

This, of the different applications of coaching, is what we will talk about in this interview with the coach Ana López Román.

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Interview with Ana López Román: How can the figure of the coach help?

Ana López Román is a coach specialized in the management of emotions and anxiety, and works giving support to problems related to private life and professional life. In this interview he talks about the different functionalities of coaching.

What was it that made you interested in the field of coaching?

She was at a point in my life where she needed a radical change in the profession she had been carrying out; but not only that, but I had a deeper inner need to understand myself, to open my mind and finally be able to share that knowledge with other people.

What aspects of coaching are most useful in helping people who want to further their personal development?

For me one of the fundamental aspects is the active listening and the full attention, it is about giving that space to the other person to express themselves freely and with absolute confidence.

Once this is achieved, it is essential to know how to read the other person (both their verbal and non-verbal language), ask the right questions to investigate the problem and really see what lies beneath what is going. It is super important to delve as much as possible, although always progressively and taking into account the needs of the person with whom I am working.

How do coaching and project implementation complement each other in professional life?

They can be complemented by guiding the person who is embarked on a professional project to identify and enhance their innate talents, to improve the aspects of their person where they find biggest challenges. It is also an aid in time management, in stress management, when setting short, medium and long-term goals and carrying them out, and simply as support and guidance so that the person feels motivated to take daily action towards the desired goals, identifying along the way any internal blocks that prevent you keep moving forward and identify very clearly why it is so important for the person to make that reality a reality. draft.

As a coach, what are the aspects of emotional management that seem most important to you and that can be facilitated by the coach?

It seems to me that it is essential to be aware of our emotions and to know how each specific person channels and expresses her emotions. But more generically I am going to share 3 steps that are key to emotional management.

As a first step, one should be able to identify the emotion: what do I feel?

As a second step, understand that emotions have a much deeper component than we think and therefore can that, although we think that we feel a certain way for a specific event, surely that is not the real reason. That is why it is super important, once we identify the emotion, to be able to stop and feel it in the body without seeking further explanations.

As a third step, understand that we are not the emotion and that we have the ability to decide whether we want that emotion to be installed in our body in a prolonged way or to invite it to leave with lots of love. This step should be done without any expectation that the emotion will go away or not, that is, accepting whatever happens.

What are the self-motivation resources that are most worked from coaching?

In my case, I work mainly from the inside out, that is, if you manage to manage internal states, this changes the perspective of your external world. Once this internal state is improved, it becomes balanced, and this helps the person to be motivated, since her external perspective is more neutral and she can act with more clarity and focus.

Can coaching be a resource to rely on in times of crisis to build resilience?

Of course! Specifically, the figure of the Coach can be very useful for people who would like to improve in different areas of their lives. Resilience is created by facing the situations that scare us instead of avoiding, evading or ignoring them; and in this case, having a person to guide us through the process and give us the necessary tools to apply them is priceless.