Sarah Dickie Coaching

Sarah Dickie Coaching Mindset + Wellbeing Coach. Inspiring positive change through increased self awareness.

Coaching conversations start in many different places but generally when we start talking we end up somewhere underneath...
01/09/2026

Coaching conversations start in many different places but generally when we start talking we end up somewhere underneath, a place where I notice some common themes.

Here are a few from my notes lately, excuse the typos, I’ve actually saved these for my own use as I benefit from the same reminders I share.

There might be something here for you too x

📕 The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown�For perfectionism, worthiness and letting go of who we think we’re supposed t...
30/08/2026

📕 The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown�For perfectionism, worthiness and letting go of who we think we’re supposed to be. A really good reminder that being human and imperfect isn’t something we need to fix. Anything by Brene is gold.

📕 Untamed by Glennon Doyle�This one made me think about how often we override what we actually know because of expectations, conditioning or what other people might think. A big one for trusting yourself and asking: What do I actually want? I love the way it’s written in chapters on slightly diffferent topics. One to re-read.

📕 You Are the Placebo by Dr Joe Dispenza�One that really stretched my thinking around the connection between our thoughts, beliefs, expectations and physical experience. The ideas in here made me incredibly curious.

📕 The Choice by Edith Eger�One of the most powerful books I’ve read. I have it beside my bed. Part memoir, part psychology. Eger was a teenager when she was sent to Auschwitz, survived the Holocaust, later became a psychologist, and writes about what her experiences taught her about freedom, choice and healing.

📕 On the Wings of Mercury by Lorraine Moller�An INCREDIBLE story about sport, identity, determination, intuition and finding your own way. Memoir of Kiwi Olympic distance runner. As someone who loves movement and has always been fascinated by what we’re capable of, this one really stayed with me. My Dad bought me this book and it’s a firm favourite.

📕The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer�If you spend a lot of time in your own head, this is a fascinating read. It changed the way I think about that constant internal commentary and the difference between having a thought and believing it.

📕 Effortless by Greg McKeown�One I come back to often and recommend to clients. A coach gave it to my husband years ago. Particularly the idea that worthwhile things don’t always have to be hard. Instead of automatically pushing harder: How could this be easier?

I don’t agree with every idea in every book I read.

But I love books that challenge something I believe, give me a different lens, or leave me thinking about an idea long after I’ve put them down.

These are a few of those 📚

25/08/2026

I’m not interested in living a life where every choice gets measured against the optimal choice.

How exhausting.

Beautiful words sent to me last night which bought a wee tear to my eye. 🥹There is this line in one of my favourite wee ...
24/08/2026

Beautiful words sent to me last night which bought a wee tear to my eye. 🥹

There is this line in one of my favourite wee books, The Boy, the mole, the fox and the horse. It’s reads “So much beauty we need to look after”… and when I read that I think of us all, the goodness jam packed inside us we sometimes forget is there or lose sight of.

“Isn’t it odd. We can only see our outsides, but nearly everything happens on the inside”
~ Charlie Mackey

Something came up in a coaching conversation today that made me think about this place I find myself in sometimes. I don...
24/08/2026

Something came up in a coaching conversation today that made me think about this place I find myself in sometimes. I don’t love sitting there, and I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who ends up there.

It’s this place where I’m seeking clarity, a bit of the old critic starts piping up, and I begin questioning things I was pretty sure about last week.

And then I start trying a little too hard to find the answers.

For me, it’s mostly about my work.

What’s next? What do I want to create? What should I be putting my energy into? Am I doing the right things? Should I be doing something differently?

And inevitably, when I start pushing too hard for the answers, I seem to move further away from all of them. Frustrating as heck.

I was speaking to a client today and was reminded that sometimes the way back to clarity is to come back to the simple reality of what we already know and love.

For me, I know what I do.

I have really good conversations with people. I help them make sense of what’s going on underneath the noise. I ask questions that help them see things differently. And I help them work out what they want to do from there.

And I know why I do it. Because I know how much can change when you understand yourself a little better.

That’s it, really.

I think sometimes I make it far more complicated than it needs to be. And I see this in coaching all the time too.

We can know something quite clearly when we’re grounded. Then things get uncomfortable, or uncertain, or we start looking too far ahead, and suddenly we’re questioning everything again.

Maybe I need more time. Maybe I need another answer. Maybe I need to work it out first. Maybe I should change tack.

When actually, sometimes we’ve just moved a little too far away from what we already know.

So maybe before you go looking for another answer, come home.

What do you already know, when you get out of your head and listen to your heart?

Start there ❤️

A bit of a full-circle moment seeing this sitting inside DediKate. I studied a Bachelor of Physical Education and the st...
11/08/2026

A bit of a full-circle moment seeing this sitting inside DediKate.

I studied a Bachelor of Physical Education and the start of my career was focussed on helping people move more, get stronger and look after their health.

I vividly remember standing in front of a group one day in Perth, I was working as an Exercise Physiologist in Corporate Health, and I thought to myself, why is there a bunch of highly educated, intelligent people, who desperately want to change, have the best program to do it, but are battling with it?

So many people knew what to do. They wanted to exercise. They understood why it mattered. They often had great programmes and plenty of information.

And yet, actually doing it consistently still felt really hard.

I realised that if I wanted to help more people create meaningful, lasting change, I wanted to understand more about the person behind the behaviour.

That curiosity eventually led me into coaching, behaviour change and the work I do now -helping people understand themselves better so they can work with themselves, rather than constantly feeling like they need more discipline or motivation.

And now, many years later, that work has found its way back into the health and fitness space.

I’ve created a six-part Mindset Series for DediKate - Online Fitness Community , designed to sit alongside the incredible fitness & health support already on the platform.

It’s about the part that happens between knowing what would support you and actually being able to follow through - understanding your patterns, making it easier to start, navigating the weeks when life gets messy, building self-trust and learning how to begin again without turning it into a big dramatic ‘restart’.

It feels incredibly special to bring these two parts of my career together. And a massive shout out to Kate for recognising the benefit of these conversations for her members.

Because movement matters enormously.

And understanding yourself can make it so much easier to keep choosing it. ❤️

Cheeky & Curious. A magic combo. 💚
08/08/2026

Cheeky & Curious. A magic combo. 💚

Three times in the past month, I’ve had conversations where we’ve discussed whether an eating disorder assessment would ...
04/08/2026

Three times in the past month, I’ve had conversations where we’ve discussed whether an eating disorder assessment would be a helpful next step. These can be pretty big, tough, conversations. Full of relief often too though.

As a coach, I don’t diagnose or clinically treat eating disorders, that’s the role of appropriately qualified clinicians. My role is to recognise when someone may benefit from further assessment, have those conversations with care, and help bridge the gap between where they are now and the support they need.

What I can do is recognise when someone’s relationship with food, eating or their body has moved beyond something coaching alone can support. Has it moved beyond what that individual can hold?

I can have the hard conversations.

I can help someone understand what’s happening without further shame.

I can encourage them to take the next step.

I can offer hope, because there is plenty.

And I can continue walking alongside them as part of their wider treatment team, if that’s appropriate.

This is exactly why I completed my Australian Centre for Eating Behaviour Approved Practitioner training.

Having walked this path personally, I feel very passionately about helping people get the support they genuinely need.

Sometimes that healing begins with finding one person who sees what’s really going on and helps you take the next step.

If you’re living with food constantly on your mind, feeling out of control around eating, or exhausted by the battle in your head, you don’t have to figure it out alone.

It starts with a conversation and I know how hard they can be, but they are worth their weight in gold.

With so much love if you are in this place.
Sarah x

I had a moment recently where I felt rather stuck. I came back to the basics and they worked. Here are those basics ❤️
12/07/2026

I had a moment recently where I felt rather stuck. I came back to the basics and they worked.

Here are those basics ❤️

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