You went into coaching to help people through hard things. No one prepared you for how hard the work itself would get.
Hard times don't just test the people coaches serve; they test the coaches themselves. When the work is heaviest, joy is the first thing to go, and burnout quietly follows.
In Joy Is Fuel, Cristina and Gloria Custodio treat joy not as a reward for surviving hard seasons but as the energy that carries you through them. Drawing on decades of coaching practice, they offer grounded, repeatable practices for staying resourced, so you can hold space for others without losing yourself.
Inside:
- Why you're so tired, and why that isn't a character flaw
- Practices that work on the days you can barely get through your sessions
- How to coach clients who bring the world into the room, and how to evoke hope without minimizing reality
- Real talk about money, wrong-fit clients, isolation, and imposter syndrome
- An Emergency Kit for the moments when you (or your client) can't access anything else
- Toolkits, scripts, and a one-page sustainability plan you can use immediately
Validation before tools, honesty before optimism: this book meets you where you are and never asks you to pretend things are fine. For coaches who are exhausted, questioning, and still committed to work that matters: joy is fuel. Here is how to find it, keep it, and share it.
