Helping People Change

CHAPTER 5

survive and thrive

the battle in your brain

Surviving means being able to live to function and work. It is not a simple biological process. Survival has emotional and even spiritual dimensions. In the most primal sense, survival means that our bodies continue to function and maintain themselves—breathing, eating, sleeping, and so forth. We make it through another day! Most of us would agree that it seems like a dismal way to live and a boring—if not depressing—way to work. (Of course, it beats the alternative!) And in some coaching situations, we do have to start with simple survival, as we will illustrate later in this chapter.

But in most situations as humans, we aspire to not just survive but also to thrive. We need both the PEA ...