Sophie Leroy: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices
Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Sophie Leroy, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
About 2 minutes
Try it here: question one shared assumption
Name one assumption most people around you take for granted, and write what you would find if you examined it honestly.
What assumption does everyone around you take for granted?
Practices that may help
- Question what everyone takes for granted
Choose one widely shared assumption — in your field, your culture, or your circle — and examine it honestly.
The Examined Life - Live what you study
Make your practice your philosophy — not a separate reading life and a separate daily life.
Philosophy as a Way of Life - Use close friendship as a moral laboratory
Cultivate deep friendships deliberately — they are the arena where practical wisdom is practiced and tested.
Phronesis: Aristotle’s Practical Wisdom - Existentialism and Radical Choice
Jean-Paul Sartre’s existentialism holds that human beings have no fixed nature — "existence precedes essence" — and are therefore radically free to define themselves through their choices. The practical implication is that you cannot hide behind role, instinct, or circumstance: you are always already choosing, including when you tell yourself you have no choice. This is philosophical rather than clinical; its overlap with ACT and CBT is real but indirect. - Engage in genuine philosophical dialogue
Have a conversation with the goal of getting clearer together, not of winning or validating.
The Examined Life - Take seriously that you have no fixed nature
Stop treating your personality, role, or past as a given — you are always in the process of defining yourself.
Existentialism and Radical Choice - Attention to the present moment (prosoche)
Practice "prosoche" — continuous, vigilant attention to what you are actually doing and thinking, right now.
Philosophy as a Way of Life - Keep the final end in view (telos check)
Before any significant action, ask: does this move me toward the life I’m trying to build, or away from it?
Phronesis: Aristotle’s Practical Wisdom - Act as if sages were watching — the practice of the philosophical community
Before any action, ask: would a person I genuinely respect — who embodies the values I aspire to — approve of this?
Pierre Hadot’s Spiritual Exercises - Spot bad faith in yourself
Notice when you are treating yourself as a thing determined by role, instinct, or expectation — and claim the choice.
Existentialism and Radical Choice
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- There’s a "this is just how it’s done" rule everyone in my world treats as gospel
- On paper I know exactly the kind of person I want to be and what I believe, but when I watch how I actually behaved this week there’s an embarrassing gap between the two, and the knowing clearly hasn’t closed it.
- A close friend is going through something and I keep just reacting to the words they say rather than reading what they actually need underneath
- Every conversation I have about my own thinking is either people arguing to win or people just agreeing to make me feel better, and neither one ever shows me anything I couldn’t already see
- I keep saying "that’s just who I am"
Related concerns
- Authentic Choice Sartre
Make choices that reflect your actual values rather than the role others have assigned you.
Choose authentically — from your own values, not from expectation
- Existence Precedes Essence Practice
Make your practice your philosophy — not a separate reading life and a separate daily life.
Live what you study
- Philosophical Dialogue Practice
Use careful, good-faith conversation — not debate — to examine your assumptions together.
Philosophical dialogue as a practice
- Philosophy As A Way Of Life With My Partner
Pierre Hadot argued that ancient Greek and Roman philosophy — Stoic, Epicurean, Platonic — was not primarily a system of theories but a set of "spiritual exercises": repeated, structured practices for transforming how you perceive, judge, and live. The academic thesis is Hadot’s own and is well established in classical scholarship. The practices he describes overlap with studied mechanisms in mindfulness, CBT, and behavioral change — though that was not Hadot’s own claim.
- Philosophy As Training
Reserve time each day not for reading philosophy but for performing a philosophical exercise.
Practice philosophy as a daily exercise
- Ancient Philosophy Practices
Pierre Hadot argued that ancient Greek and Roman philosophy — Stoic, Epicurean, Platonic — was not primarily a system of theories but a set of "spiritual exercises": repeated, structured practices for transforming how you perceive, judge, and live. The academic thesis is Hadot’s own and is well established in classical scholarship. The practices he describes overlap with studied mechanisms in mindfulness, CBT, and behavioral change — though that was not Hadot’s own claim.
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