ICF
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFIED COACH
WHOLE PERSON
CERTIFIED COACH
25+ YEARS
LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
Sometimes the change is easy to name:
You've done a lot of work cleaning your mental closets.
A career shift, an empty nest, or considering retirement. Other times, nothing obvious has changed yet—you simply know something no longer fits.
And you don't arrive at these threshold moments as the woman you were ten or even five years ago. You’re clearer about what matters to you, what you want, and what you no longer want to organize your life around.
That growth is real. But not every part of life changes at the same pace.
Some of the habits, expectations, and ways of responding that helped you build the life you have don't change because you have.
Most of the time, you can work around that.
Until something important is at stake.
When something important is at stake.
An opportunity you actually want.
That's often when familiar responses get louder.
A decision with consequences you can't neatly predict.
You find yourself over-analyzing the decision, even though you're decisive in most of your life.
Or the reasons something can't work suddenly become much louder than the reasons it can.
A conversation with someone whose opinion matters
You can't seem to say what you need to say to that one person, when communication is usually one of your strengths.
A change in work, family, relationships, or life stage that could alter what the next few years look like.
The reactiveness you thought you'd mellowed—and deleted from your operating system—makes an unexpected return.
It can be disorienting to know how much you've grown and still find yourself responding in ways that feel surprisingly familiar.
Those moments aren't proof that your growth is fading.
They are a map.
Some things don't get clearer by thinking about them more.
When you're smart, capable and used to figuring things out, thinking can become the place you automatically go when something feels uncertain.
And that can be hard to accept when your intelligence has served you well.
But there’s a difference between thinking something through and thinking it over and over.
At some point, you’re no longer getting new information. You’re revisiting the same questions, replaying the same possibilities, and hoping something will finally click.
Sometimes what helps is enough space to slow things down, notice what you're thinking and sensing, and hear yourself more clearly—and another person who can help you see what is difficult to see from inside the situation.
Coaching helps you use what you already know about yourself and practice new ways of responding until they become part of how you move through your life.
What change can look like
I simply couldn't say no to requests for my time at work, even though I knew I needed time to mentally reset after spending seven days working with clients. My work with Linda helped me understand what my automatic ‘Sure, I'll come in’ was protecting. Once I made that discovery, I had to practice maintaining a boundary around my time away. It became easier and easier as I integrated what I had learned in coaching into my life.
— A.K.
Hi, I'm Linda
I'm Linda Rhoads, an ICF Professional Certified Coach and founder of The Soul Spot.
The Soul Spot is a coaching practice where I provide private coaching and small-group retreats for women at a point of change.
Before becoming a coach, I spent more than 25 years in leadership, including strategy, confidential executive advising, Chief of Staff roles, and a great deal of time helping people think through things that mattered. Much like coaching.
I also know something about being exceptionally good at creating healthy conditions for the people around you while being considerably less practiced at doing the same for yourself. My own leadership years included perfectionism, self-doubt, over-responsibility, and some very well-developed ways of pushing past what I knew.
My coaching draws on whole-person and somatic approaches, along with Wayfinding—a way of paying attention to more than what you r analytical mind is telling you.
I'm curious, I listen closely, and I'm comfortable with complexity and questions that don't need to be tidied up immediately. I'll challenge you when it's useful without assuming I know what your life should look like—and we can do serious work without being serious every minute.
WAYS WE CAN WORK TOGETHER
Private coaching
Begin Shaping What Comes Next.
Retreats
Sometimes stepping away is part of the work.
There are things we see differently—including ourselves—when we step outside the routines, responsibilities, and expectations that usually shape our days and our lives.
The Soul Spot's small-group retreats for women offer time away from those familiar structures so you may rest, reflect, and understand what's changing and make choices about what comes next.
A retreat can stand on its own or become an immersive part of a longer coaching experience.
You don't need to have it all figured out before we talk.
You may come with a specific decision, conversation, opportunity, or change you want to work through.
Or you may simply know that something in your life deserves more attention than you've been giving it.
That's enough to start a conversation
Ideas for living and leading on your own terms.
Every other week, I share observations, research, and practical ideas about self-trust, navigating change, and using what you know about yourself in the choices you make, the boundaries you keep, and the way you live.
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