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Helping children, teens, and adults build confidence, emotional resilience, and direction, in Oxfordshire & online.
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Coaching with heart, clarity & real-world experience. I’m Roy, a Personal Growth Coach based in Kidlington, Oxfordshire, offering coaching for children, teens, and adults, both in person and online. With over 20 years of experience supporting young people, families, and communities, I help clients navigate anxiety, stress, burnout, emotionally based school absence, and life transitions. My coaching is compassionate, person-centred, and grounded in empathy, trust, and real-world understanding. Whether you're looking to support your child’s emotional health or make sense of your own journey, coaching with me offers a safe space to rediscover clarity, confidence, and direction...one step at a time.

15/10/2025

It's scientifically proven that the mind and body have this amazing two way connection and relationship. What you feed your mind can impact your body, and what you feed your body can impact your mind.

Have you ever stopped and asked each what they need though?

Might seem a bit weird at first, right? But if you wanted to know what a child, family member, or friend wanted, you'd ask, yes?

So why not ask yourself? Find a couple of minutes by yourself in the calm, and ask your mind and body separately 'What do you need from me today?'

I wonder how it answers...Can you provide what it needs?

14/10/2025

If you were struggling, who would you call?
Who would actually answer?

Sometimes it can feel like we're on our own with problems. I don't shy away from the fact that I've lived experience of many situations and have struggled with my mental health over the years.

There have been instances where, despite having wonderful friends, the little voice inside will say 'Don't call them. Don't lumber them with your problems'.

Years ago, on an occasion when I was at a low point, I actually scrolled through my phone and could only pick out one name that I thought I could call.

It wasn't a friend, it wasn't a family member, and I'd not spoken to them in years. We weren't close but weirdly I stopped on their name because all other names seemed to carry 'baggage' (even if that 'baggage' was I didn't want to lumber them). I stopped short of calling.

It can be hard to speak up if you're struggling, of course it can, but what if eight minutes could change all of that?

Simon Sinek, an American author, tells how his struggling friend had read an article about the difference an eight minute call can make.

If eight minutes really can make a difference, then I wonder whether an hour of coaching has seven times the benefit? When I think back to a recent session, I'd say yes. Coaching can have a huge impact.

Who would you call if you needed eight minutes of their time?

(The Simon Sinek video is in the comments)

14/10/2025

As a parent, carer, or even an educator, there can be many times when the overwhelm hits. I see it with children I work with, but often as the adults we're expected to mask our feelings. You know what though, many people are in the same boat. Maybe by opening up and answering today's question you'll find others who feel or do the same things you do when you're overwhelmed...

13/10/2025

Good morning, courageous warrior! Time to take on another week!

As the middle of October rolls in - yes, it's only two months until you know what - it's time to remind yourself that you have the courage and strength within you to achieve what you set out to.

If you've got this far through the year, then there's no way you're letting the last bit slip away, right?

So as my randomly pulled affirmation card said last night - Fierce, fearless, and capable of anything!

What will you do this week that requires more courage and your fierce and fearless side to emerge? 👇

12/10/2025

Are you sitting comfortably?
Then let’s begin...

Even if you weren't around at the time that Listen with Mother was broadcast, you'll probably know the phrase. It was a programme designed to stimulate imagination while providing comfort and calm.

Reckon you could do with some of that?

Well, here we are.
Another Sunday night.
Another moment to pause between one week ending and another beginning.

Maybe there’s a quiet thought that’s been following you around lately that you can't shake and it talks to you, saying 'Hey you. Yeah, you, the fab human that doesn't always see it. Something needs to change.'

Maybe it's in your own work, your relationships with others, yours or your child's confidence, or maybe even the way you feel day to day and manage to get through to bedtime.

And here's the thing...

You’ve thought about it.
Maybe more than once.

So let me gently ask you...What are you actually waiting for?

🤷‍♂️ A 'better time'?
🤷‍♂️ To feel more ready, more sure, more deserving?
🤷‍♂️ For things to get even more uncomfortable before you act?

Here’s the truth...

😊 You don’t need to have it all figured out.
😊 You don’t have to commit to anything long-term.
😊 You just need to take the first step, and we can figure the rest out together.

Coaching with me is fab because you get:-
✅ A free discovery call. You and me simply having a chat.
✅ No pressure, no lengthy contracts, no catch.
✅ Some clarity in the first session. More sessions or go deeper later? You decide.

So if this Sunday night feels a little too familiar...maybe it’s time to start something different.

Click here:- www.roypeach.com/contact to book your FREE call.

You don’t have to wait.
You just have to begin.

11/10/2025

It's another weekend challenge and this one may at first glance seem simple and straightforward, and in some ways it is, but what happens when you really lean into it?

If you pause now, what emotion are you feeling?
If I ask you again, how you're REALLY feeling, does that change it?
Is that really the word?

Maybe the word stayed the same, maybe it changed.

What's important is the pause and noticing. When you begin to do this more, you become more self-aware and that's a great starting point for transformation.

10/10/2025

Three Tiny Tips To Boost Teen Confidence (if the feeling's meh right now and no big speeches are needed)

Confidence doesn’t appear overnight and doesn't mean you never feel awkward or unsure. It’s built in tiny, consistent ways, often without teens realising it, figuring it out when it matters.

Here are three easy, realistic ways to boost teen confidence every day...without making a big deal about it...

1) ONE WIN A DAY
Encourage your teen to jot down one win from the day, however small.
- 'Spoke up in class'
- 'Didn't avoid the awks convo'
- 'Didn’t quit when I didn't even want to get out of bed'
**This trains the brain to spot progress instead of problems**

2) POWER PHRASES
Get them to create a note on their phone (or a sticky note by their bed) of 'I can…' statements:-
- 'I can try'
- 'I can fail and still be worthy'
- 'I can speak up'
**Read it daily. You’re rewiring your brain to back yourself. Self-talk isn’t cheesy. It’s training**

3) ONE BRAVE THING A DAY
Help them set one small goal/challenge each day
- 'Say hello to someone new'
- 'Ask a question in class'
- 'Try'
**These micro-moments build real confidence over time. Small braves = big confidence over time**

✨ Confidence isn’t about being loud. It’s about trusting you can handle what comes your way.

If your teen needs help building self-esteem or overcoming anxiety, I work with young people 1:1 to give them practical tools that stick.

📍Based in Kidlington and North Oxford | DM to chat or ask a question, or check out www.roypeach.com/contact for calendar availability and to take control on your time.

09/10/2025

In our last poll, you quizzed me on what you thought children needed the most in coaching - to the point that some of you stopped me in the street and wanted to know the answer before I posted it on here (but I made you wait - mwahahaha).

This time though I ask you, as parents, carers, and educators 'What's most important to you in supporting your child's emotional resilience?'

VOTE BELOW!

09/10/2025

After reading about how my life was changed by stress and burnout (and how I ignored the signs), you've landed here. Today's piece is the final bit of the jigsaw I suppose.

I've always felt my life's mission was to be useful and helpful, hence my school role, but following my attempt at returning to work there, it wasn't meant to be.

I began blogging about the trials and tribulations of being newly diagnosed with anxiety and depression, when a wonderful friend (sadly no longer with us), recommended I train with her as a Relax Kids Coach. Still feeling rough, I signed up, and became part of the purple tribe, running classes in schools, community halls, groups for home educated children, young carers, Scouts, and 1:1 sessions too.

I worked with children across the country during Covid and became a knock-off version of Mr Tumble as my confidence grew, all while taking on other jobs to keep the money coming in.

And then, last year, I did a major reset on the business. I firmly believe in the magic and power of Relax Kids but it was time to own my name and expand. I qualified as a life and business coach and NLP practitioner and that's where you find me now.

Today, using all of my experience as a professional coach and youth worker, as well as years in schools, Scouts, and managing youth charities, I now support children, teens, and adults who are struggling with burnout, confidence, or direction, because I’ve been there.

If you need help in these areas, I’m here to help. Why not get in touch for a FREE no-obligation chat?

08/10/2025

Yesterday, I explained how laying on a stained school carpet was the turning point for me to launch a coaching career, but what had gone unnoticed?

When I started at the school I took the decision to begin my degree in youth work. This arose from the idea that everyone around me was getting ahead because of their qualifications and I felt I needed to push myself.

Personal circumstances meant I never ended up following the path I thought I would earlier in life.

Working full-time in a school, which any school worker will know is full-time-and-a-half, while pulling in half the hours again in studying, and running two youth organisations and volunteering with another organisation is what ultimately pushed me over the edge.

Schools change rapidly. At the time, staff turnover was high, systems changed regularly, and in the year I collapsed I'd shifted from being predominently office-based to hot-desking around the site in order to be pro-active and seen. If students were in Maths, I worked in the Maths office. In DT, I headed over there, and so on.

It was great for picking up issues instantly, but wasn't always conducive to getting all of the work done in the time available. I wanted to be the beating heart of the year group and prove my worth because I was young, perhaps a touch naive, but determined to do my best for every young person in my charge.

In focusing all of my energy, attention, and passion on supporting THEIR lives, I'd become blind to my OWN life. I was putting on weight, popping paracetamol like it was going out of fashion to stave off headaches, and the morning I collapsed even noted that I was getting chest pains, but I continued.

I continued until my body forced the stop, and you know what, it was horrendous. Not because I was ill, but because I couldn't work. In an instant I felt hopeless, helpless, and a complete failure.

It was this turning point that led me to coaching and why I do what I do now, offering tools, strategies, and a kind reminder that your wellbeing matters. And I speak from considerable experience.

07/10/2025

What makes somebody fall into coaching?

For me, it was actually falling.

I'd been working as a Deputy Head of Year in an Oxford secondary school when during a rare break time, I sat down in my colleague's office, slice of birthday cake in hand, and softly proclaimed as my eyes went fuzzy that I was going. Having only just arrived it seemed strange, but I wasn't getting up and leaving, I was falling.

Around a minute later I was laid on my back on the chewing-gum stained carpet, cake long gone, hoping this wasn't where it ended.

There was immediately a bright light, pain in my chest and down both arms, and I kid you not, I thought my life was over.

Even more so when soon after I had two paramedics crouching around me, my ghost-like rotund belly skin on display, and wires attached to various parts of my body.

I was immediately propelled back home, thrown into the local mental health and NHS systems, weekly GP check-ups, medicated, and signed off work until I could manage to step across the threshold again. Walking back into a 1200-student establishment isn't easy, even if it's what you've known for most of your working life.

It was a scary time. That was the wake-up call though, and you might think that was the beginning and that I saw another light full of rainbows and off I went. In some ways you'd be right but it wasn't exatly like that to reach where I am today.

But what came next? Well, you'll have to wait until tomorrow.

06/10/2025

In just one month, it's Youth Work Week!

Why's this special?

First and foremost I'm a qualified Youth Worker. That was my bread and butter for a number of years, and even now as a Personal Growth Coach whose primary focus is working with children and teens to boost their confidence, I firmly believe in raising awareness of the benefits of youth work in whatever guises they come.

Youth Work Week is a time to celebrate the people, places, and programmes that are Building Brighter Futures for our young people. That's the theme for this year - Building Brighter Futures.

This year’s theme says it all really doesn't it? Safe places, trusted support, and opportunities to thrive.

As a Personal Growth Coach, I’m proud to play a part in this mission by helping children and teens build their confidence, develop self-awareness, and grow into the strong, resilient individuals they’re meant to be...because every young person deserves a safe space where they feel seen, heard, and at their best.

Let’s raise awareness, celebrate youth work, and continue creating environments where young people can truly thrive.

This is one of my calm private practice spaces below 👇 but I use other spaces such as in schools as well as family homes. Interested? Get in touch!

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Wednesday	12:30pm - 8pm
Friday	9:30am - 4pm

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