Coaching practices for Life Stage Wellbeing Practices
Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Life Stage Wellbeing Practices, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- Going through this health scare has shaken loose how I think about my body and how much time I actually have
- I’ve finally accepted that chasing more stuff and more status isn’t making me durably happier, and now I want to pour my time and money into whatever actually does move the needle for good
- On paper my life looks successful
- Something about my life feels off and I genuinely can’t name what
- The things that used to recharge me
Practices that may help
- Use benefit-finding specifically for illness-related adversity
The research on benefit-finding is strongest in the context of medical illness — use these practices during or after health challenges.
Benefit-Finding in Adversity, Made Practical - Seasons of Life
The seasons-of-life framework treats adult development as a sequence of distinct phases — each with its own natural demands, appropriate priorities, and transition challenges. Drawing on developmental psychology (Levinson, Erikson, Sheehy) and practical life-design work, it argues that straining against your current season (trying to do spring work in autumn, or refusing to accept a transition) produces more distress than the season itself. - Invest in what research shows moves the set point
Prioritize relationships, autonomy, and meaning — the three factors most reliably linked to lasting wellbeing gains.
The Hedonic Treadmill, Made Practical - Audit your life against PERMA
Check well-being across all five pillars — emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, accomplishment.
Positive Psychology, Made Practical - Run a PERMA audit of your current well-being
Rate each of the five PERMA pillars to find which is currently limiting your overall flourishing.
Seligman’s PERMA Model, Made Practical - Match your self-care to what your current season demands
Spring requires stimulus and novelty; autumn requires depth and consolidation — what restores you changes.
Seasons of Life - Identify your current season honestly
Name the season you are actually in — not the one you want to be in or the one others expect.
Seasons of Life - Identify the drag domain — the one pulling everything else down
One chronically low domain often functions as a ceiling on satisfaction in all the others.
The Wheel of Life, Made Practical - Include emotional health as a core healthspan pillar
Chronic relationship difficulty, unprocessed trauma, and sustained depression shorten healthspan through physiological as well as psychological mechanisms.
Healthspan vs. Lifespan: Optimizing How Well You Age, Not Just How Long - Engage generativity — the natural work of midlife and later seasons
Midlife and later seasons are calling for contribution, mentorship, and transmission — not just personal achievement.
Seasons of Life
Related concerns
- Awe And Well Being Research
Awe — the emotion triggered by encountering something vast that challenges your current mental frameworks — reliably reduces self-focused thinking, lowers inflammatory markers in some studies, increases prosocial behavior, and expands the perceived sense of time available. Dacher Keltner’s research shows awe is more accessible than people think and can be deliberately cultivated without waiting for once-in-a-decade peak experiences.
- Five Elements Of Well Being
Martin Seligman’s PERMA model identifies five pillars of well-being: Positive Emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment. Unlike happiness models that treat well-being as a single variable, PERMA argues these five elements are each intrinsically valued and each independently improvable. Several PERMA-targeted interventions have randomized-trial support; others are mechanistically grounded with less direct evidence.
- Five Pillars Of Wellbeing
Check well-being across all five pillars — emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, accomplishment.
Audit your life against PERMA
- Goal Disengagement Wellbeing
Treat disengagement between performances as a skill to develop, not an indulgence to manage.
Oscillate deliberately between full engagement and full recovery
- How To Improve Well Being
Awe — the emotion triggered by encountering something vast that challenges your current mental frameworks — reliably reduces self-focused thinking, lowers inflammatory markers in some studies, increases prosocial behavior, and expands the perceived sense of time available. Dacher Keltner’s research shows awe is more accessible than people think and can be deliberately cultivated without waiting for once-in-a-decade peak experiences.
- How To Measure Well Being
Rate each of the five PERMA pillars to find which is currently limiting your overall flourishing.
Run a PERMA audit of your current well-being
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