ABOUT ME:
Cognition and Language Specialist | Emotional Health Expert | Helping Children and Adults Master Their
Thoughts and Emotions | Cognitive Development and Coaching | Cognitive Transformation
* COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT AND EMOTIONAL MASTERY *
Cognitive Coaching and Personal Development For Professionals
Empower Your Mindset Improve Your Emotional Health
My unwavering mission is to empower individuals, leaders, and professionals to boldly confront and heal their internal wounds and overcome their inner child fears. My bespoke set of skills, knowledge and tools enable people to break free from their fear-based limitations and unleash their truly limitless potential.
By gaining a deep understanding of others’ inner wounds and fears, I teach professionals to adapt their communication and leadership styles, amplifying creativity, productivity, and quality in their teams.
My untiring aim is to mentor and support professionals in creating optimal conditions for themselves and their teams, enabling everyone to flourish and soar to new heights. Through the practice of energy management, I guide others to lead with spiritual, emotional, and mental mastery, transforming their energy and the energy around them.
By implementing powerful strategies, I ignite a newfound awareness of individuals’ mental, emotional, and spiritual needs and challenges. By expanding mental, emotional, and spiritual capacities, I equip people with the ability to face currently abundant challenges and adversities and in the process, create a world of thriving, strong and resilient individuals and communities.
My mission is to cultivate emotional and spiritual intelligence in individuals, empowering them to effectively read, understand, and process their inner energy and emotions while mastering their mindset and improving their thinking.
By transcending cognitive distortions and unlocking the power of understanding the mindsets of others, I support individuals in building strong personal and professional relationships, contributing to flourishing and harmonious communities.
As an individual, you have a sacred energy within you that is to be treated with the utmost respect and reverence. This energy is at the core of everything you do and every decision you make. It is with this understanding that I have established my values, which I believe are critical to empowering and supporting individuals on their journey to finding their true, authentic self.
Sacred Inner Energy:
Your inner energy is the essence of who you are, and as such, it must be treated with reverence and respect. It is through honouring and nurturing this energy that you can find the power and strength to be your true self and manifest in the most magnificent way possible.
Emotions and Feelings:
Your emotions and feelings are valid, and they are of the utmost importance. I acknowledge and honour this fact, and I am committed to creating a space where you can express and be heard without fear of judgment.
Personal Choices and Decisions:
Your personal choices and decisions are essential to your journey, and I honour them. My role is to inform you of the options available to you, not to make decisions for you. I respect your autonomy and empower you to take control of your own energy and your unique journey.
Unity in Diversity:
We are all one, despite our differences in race, culture, and experience. Together, we celebrate and honour this sacred energy that unites us all. We are all one, and one is all there is.
Authentic Self:
You were meant to be your true, authentic self, and it is my mission to help you find and embrace that self. Through a supportive environment, we will work together to help you manifest your desires in the most powerful way possible.
Access to Answers:
As an individual with access to it all, you have all the answers and solutions within you. My role is to support you in finding them and empowering you to trust your intuition, to align with your future Self in a process of self- actualisation.
Joyful, Healthy, and Strong Inner Self:
Your joyful, healthy, and strong inner self is my sacred, ultimate goal. I define my success by meeting or exceeding your expectations. If we fall short, we will acknowledge it as progress and find a way forward as there is always the way and as long as you are in motion, you move forward.
Transparency:
My core foundations are seeking the truth, earning your trust, and providing full transparency. I strongly believe in being upfront and honest and I am committed to providing you with the highest level of transparency so you can make the best judgements and decisions.
These values are critical to empowering and supporting individuals on their journey to finding their true, authentic selves. By honouring and nurturing your sacred inner energy, we can create a space where you can express yourself freely and be supported on your journey to a joyful, healthy, and strong inner Self – also, your future Self you were always destined to be.
As an independent language and cognition specialist I absolutely love Cognitive Linguistics and I have been fascinated by the way we think, conceptualise and understand things. I can see clearly how our cognition and cognitive skills shape not only our mindsets but also how they impact our inner well-being, our choices and decisions and as a result – shape our reality.
When I graduated from UMCS University in 2004 (MA in Cognitive Linguistics), I knew I was going to teach English as a Foreign language, but I was also certain that the knowledge of Cognitive Linguistics can be used in other ways – I just wasn`t sure how.
It took my whole life to shape me into who I am today and over two decades of studying, observing and understanding the mindset and more specifically – human cognition.
While working as a teacher, tutor and mentor I quickly discovered how little teachers and other professionals know about cognition and cognitive skills.
On many occasions, I felt utterly heartbroken as I witnessed my students struggle with their thoughts, emotions, and energy. I saw how traumatised they already were and how difficult it was for them to develop internally: emotionally, spiritually and mentally – an issue I am very familiar with.
If you think, as a professional, that the mindset is the most important element that determines the quality of our life and the quality of our inner state – you would be absolutely right, however, there is a lot more to think about: the inner energy, emotions, inner needs and core conditions for our inner Self to develop and access to our inner resources and superpowers to create what we desire.
As a result of an emotionally and mentally traumatic childhood, I developed a very strong and unique set of abilities, namely, how to read, understand, and process my inner energy, emotions and thoughts, how to access my inner resources and create conditions conducive to my internal growth, progression and expansion.
As a consequence of emotional and mental lack of awareness, I suffered from inner child syndrome immensely – I developed all core wounds and fears which shaped my mindset and run my internal affairs ( thoughts, energy and emotions) and it manifested in my life in the form of many failures.
Many, many books, videos, and training sessions and decades later, I began to see a clear picture of what was happening. I was taken aback by the sheer destruction that the inner child syndrome causes: a lack of identity and boundaries, empathy and hyper-vigilance, a range of sensitivities, a complete lack of growth, negative thinking patterns – cognitive distortions, negativity trap, unhealthy conceptualisations and a whole range of harmful coping mechanisms – to name but a few.
When the pandemic struck back in March 2020 – I took the opportunity and started to really get to the bottom of our mental, spiritual and emotional suffering. I realised how little knowledge there is about our inner sphere and how coaching or counselling have some of the answers, but they are very patchy, incomplete and not as effective as they can be.
What I found is that you do not have to suffer at all – you can heal all your wounds and you can change your thinking patterns by mastering your cognition. You can stop using harmful coping mechanisms, reduce sensitivities, create your inner spaces and meet all your internal needs to be stronger and happier inside. You have all you need in your inner sphere – the problem is – nobody is teaching you about the inner space: how to read it, understand it and manage it.
After almost screaming at the screen, wanting to add to the content that was presented, I have written many programmes to help people to deal with their emotional, spiritual and mental health on a deeper level and in a much more diverse way.
The best thing about these programmes is that they are a blueprint, not somebody else’s solution which may or may not work for you. It is a tool that is meant to bring you a set of possibilities presented exclusively to you so that you can choose from them and adapt them to your particular situation. Indeed, you have all of the answers and solutions in you and these programmes have been designed specifically to guide you to them by using multiple shortcuts.
I hope that by now, you get an idea of who I am. I am powerful, knowledgeable and persistent. I will not rest until I see my people in power, strong, happy inside and fulfilled. A huge goal, I know. I also know that the challenges we face currently are immense. We must have bigger ambitions than obstacles to overcome them.
In my everyday life, I love walking in the park and thinking about my programmes, I am obsessed with self-actualisation and my mission of empowering people. I like listening to discussions about leadership, and the ways we can heal. I love reading books, cooking and listening to music. I also like collecting shoes and… notebooks. I love gadgets and I most certainly could not live without coffee or chocolate.
In general, I am a very happy “shorty” with a big attitude and even bigger ambition. People tend to judge me by my height, but they soon realise, I am not small at all, and quite often, that I am not the one who is small…
What makes me who I am today? My resilience, my persistence. Decades of emotional hardship, decades of working with young, teenage souls and adults. Also: decades of studying the human way of thinking which reveals a lot not only about how our mind works but also how emotions and our inner energy work. I can safely say – I have always been destined to be a teacher, a mentor and a guide. My entire life has been designed to improve our inner world so we can create a better outer reality.
I don’t believe in energy, emotions, thoughts… I experience them and I control them. I am someone who has healed very deep wounds and transformed them into growth, awareness and inner power– yes, there is still more work to do but I am strong and happy inside as I hope you will soon notice. Not only that… I have a unique blueprint for you so you can become stronger and happier – your way. I recognise that there is a big difference between knowing, being able to do something and teaching it. I know what needs to be done and I know how to teach it. I am sure that in my blood test, they would have detected mentoring, teaching… if they only knew how to… !
My whole life has been designed to pave the way to a greater understanding of our inner world – to enable people to regain power and control over their emotions, energy and thoughts – to access their inner light and self-love they never lost, but which have been covered by years of difficult experiences, traumatic events as well as conditioning and modelling.
As for people who support and serve others – the leaders – I have found the most effective way to communicate, influence and impact other people through reading and understanding their energy, their emotions and their thinking patterns ( more specifically – meta-programmes and cognition).
I strongly believe that to lead others, you need to heal your inner child’s wounds and face your inner fears first. You need to lead and control your own emotions, energy and thoughts before you can successfully impact others.
If you would like to heal your inner child wounds and find your way back to your authentic Self – feel free to reach out to me or find out much more about how you can flourish internally – here on my website.
Please fill out the form below and let me know how I can help you.
Hi there!
A really warm welcome.
Thank you for being here.
So happy to have you here!
My name is Isabella Aqif.
I am An Independent Cognition and Language Specialist. I am a neurodiverse Empath.
QTS – UK status -2005; MA title in Cognitive Linguistics- UMCS University
BA in TEFL / ESOL
SEN Postgraduate Diploma – Kingston University
NLP practitioner
Life coach and Cognitive Coach
a.k.a.
~ THE COGNITION QUEEN ~
Teacher, Tutor – Private Academy 2012 – 2021
I help professionals:
– to explore and understand their inner sphere
– to synchronise their mind with their body and their energy
– to read and understand emotions and feelings
– to use language that is helpful and supportive
– to define their values and priorities
– to correct any cognitive distortions, biases or imbalances
– to identify and get rid of any unhelpful attachments
– to connect to their inner resources and use them in everyday life
so they
get much-needed self-confidence and clarity in all aspects of their life
and
be finally free to create the future they always wanted.
In other words…
I help professionals in the following ways:
I help them heal their inner wounds and deal with the fears developed during childhood.
I assist them in managing their emotional, spiritual, and intellectual challenges.
I explore and understand their inner sphere with them, synchronise their mind with their body, emotions and energy.
I teach them how to read and understand their emotions and feelings and use language that is empowering, helpful and supportive.
I work with them to define their values and priorities, ensuring that they meet their emotional, mental, and spiritual needs.
I correct any cognitive distortions, biases, or imbalances, identifying and getting rid of any unhelpful coping mechanisms they might be using subconsciously.
I help them connect with their inner resources, allowing them to use them in their everyday life.
All of these efforts combined, give them much-needed control, self-confidence, and clarity in all aspects of their life. Once they have gained this control, they are free to create the future they have always wanted and were destined to create.
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I have been lucky to study what I truly love and do what I love.
I have been fascinated by languages since I can remember.
The knowledge of Cognitive Linguistics allowed me to understand the whole learning process far better than many fellow teachers and tutors I know…
I have been observing cognition, the process of learning and other various language functions for two and a half decades as a professional Teacher and Tutor.
I have been fascinated by how our brain conceptualises, how it works and how what happens between our ears impacts our entire well-being, and our mental health and how significantly it shapes our overall perception, our behaviour, actions and our habits which ultimately create our reality.
I am here to share with you what I discovered about human inner energy, what I experienced and what I discovered about the rules that govern our inner sphere.
I want to help you strengthen the connection between your energy, your mind and your body to make you feel more grounded and centred.
I am very passionate about the language you use and providing you with the choice of better, more supportive words and making you aware of your metacognition.
It is my mission to help you with your mental struggles caused by cognitive distortions, inconsistencies, biases or imbalances.
I am truly fascinated by how our feelings and emotions arise, what their potential messages are and the very specific functions they might be performing for you.
It is my pleasure to share what I have learnt about human emotions – how to process them, control them and how to read them.
I am determined to assist you in finding your values and getting rid of any harmful coping mechanisms you might be using subconsciously.
I am here to make you aware of your mental, emotional and spiritual needs and assist you in meeting all of them.
I would like to guide you to your immaterial, limitless resources and show you how to use them to solve any problem, create anything within the physical realm and face anything in life.
I have personally experienced almost all of the classic coaching issues:
Overwhelm, Stress, Fear, Imposter Syndrome, Ostrich Syndrome, People pleasing, Perfectionism, Self – worth issues, Procrastination and Confidence issues… – yes, I had them all… I owe the experience of all of these to my difficult childhood and multiple work-related traumas.
To my horror, I also discovered that I had had just about every common cognitive distortion that there is…
Changing the language, culture and country, studying linguistics, cognition, as well as language acquisition, allowed me to see my mindset from a different perspective and completely change it.
Quite quickly, it became abundantly clear, how destructive and harmful these issues were for me. Unfortunately, not only for me. I discovered that the vast majority of people around me struggle with their cognition and their mindset to some degree or in one way or the other.
Cognitive distortions and a malfunctioning mindset can make you passively blind – you just don’t notice a lot of the activity that is going on around you, your perception is totally distorted – you don’t see the reality as it is, it is filtered through that distortion and after some time, it materialises and becomes a reality.
One day, just like that – I realised that what I believed deeply and persistently, materialised. I simply compared my deeply rooted beliefs with the reality I was facing…
Those cognitive imbalances, heavily influence our decisions, and how we read our environment and they limit our perception of the choices we have. It is easy to see how restrictive and damaging they can be and how they impact our lives.
Being bilingual, having studied cognition and linguistics, knowing how people learn a second language (second language acquisition) living in another country and speaking another language for almost 30 years now, observing how people learn, have all played a huge part in shaping my current skills and abilities.
I guess have been placed in a truly unique position that made it possible for me to identify, understand and re-model my cognition and now I can help others understand exactly why they think the way they think and why it makes them feel the way it does.
I am well aware of the connection between our mind and our well-being: our thoughts, feelings and emotions and actions we take every day, much more than the majority of people. Being Aware of these connections gives us incredible power and control over our entire inner energy.
I can also clearly see how cognition impacts your entire life: why you feel stuck, why you procrastinate, why you feel unworthy, guilty, ashamed and often – so very confused. I am in a position to change that for you, should you wish to.
I studied. I dug deep. I wanted to know, understand. I have read many great books, I completed many courses:
MA in Cognitive Linguistics
BA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (ESOL / TEFL)
Post-graduate Diploma in SEN
NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming) course
Life Coaching course
Self–study:
Cognitive psychology
CBT
Psychology
Coaching
Personal development studies
As a result, I have found answers and solutions to many of our current problems which are quite simple but too plentiful to put into a few sentences.
I have gained a truly valuable insight into our true nature and the way we function. More than that… I have discovered some universal laws that apply to every one of us which could help you and change everything for you, starting today. I have spent years and decades listening to different people, combining my knowledge with their experience and wisdom or lack thereof.
I am now obliged, honoured and thrilled to serve you and to share all of the findings with you so you can have the option to change, create and express what you came into this world with.
This is my mission, my passion and my goal.
You are invited to finally meet your inner Self. Are you ready…?
Let me introduce you to someone you didn`t know but you`ve always wanted to meet…
YOU.
As an independent language and cognition specialist I absolutely love Cognitive Linguistics and I have been fascinated by the way we think, conceptualise and understand things. I can see clearly how our cognition and cognitive skills shape not only our mindsets but also how they impact our inner well-being, our choices and decisions and as a result – shape our reality.
When I graduated from UMCS University in 2004 (MA in Cognitive Linguistics), I knew I was going to teach English as a Foreign language, but I was also certain that the knowledge of Cognitive Linguistics can be used in other ways – I just wasn`t sure how.
It took my whole life to shape me into who I am today and over two decades of studying, observing and understanding the mindset and more specifically – human cognition.
While working as a teacher, tutor and mentor I quickly discovered how little teachers and other professionals know about cognition and cognitive skills.
On many occasions, I felt utterly heartbroken as I witnessed my students struggle with their thoughts, emotions, and energy. I saw how traumatised they already were and how difficult it was for them to develop internally: emotionally, spiritually and mentally – an issue I am very familiar with.
If you think, as a professional, that the mindset is the most important element that determines the quality of our life and the quality of our inner state – you would be absolutely right, however, there is a lot more to think about: the inner energy, emotions, inner needs and core conditions for our inner Self to develop and access to our inner resources and superpowers to create what we desire.
As a result of an emotionally and mentally traumatic childhood, I developed a very strong and unique set of abilities, namely, how to read, understand, and process my inner energy, emotions and thoughts, how to access my inner resources and create conditions conducive to my internal growth, progression and expansion.
As a consequence of emotional and mental lack of awareness, I suffered from inner child syndrome immensely – I developed all core wounds and fears which shaped my mindset and run my internal affairs ( thoughts, energy and emotions) and it manifested in my life in the form of many failures.
Many, many books, videos, and training sessions and decades later, I began to see a clear picture of what was happening. I was taken aback by the sheer destruction that the inner child syndrome causes: a lack of identity and boundaries, empathy and hyper-vigilance, a range of sensitivities, a complete lack of growth, negative thinking patterns – cognitive distortions, negativity trap, unhealthy conceptualisations and a whole range of harmful coping mechanisms – to name but a few.
When the pandemic struck back in March 2020 – I took the opportunity and started to really get to the bottom of our mental, spiritual and emotional suffering. I realised how little knowledge there is about our inner sphere and how coaching or counselling have some of the answers, but they are very patchy, incomplete and not as effective as they can be.
What I found is that you do not have to suffer at all – you can heal all your wounds and you can change your thinking patterns by mastering your cognition. You can stop using harmful coping mechanisms, reduce sensitivities, create your inner spaces and meet all your internal needs to be stronger and happier inside. You have all you need in your inner sphere – the problem is – nobody is teaching you about the inner space: how to read it, understand it and manage it.
After almost screaming at the screen, wanting to add to the content that was presented, I have written many programmes to help people to deal with their emotional, spiritual and mental health on a deeper level and in a much more diverse way.
The best thing about these programmes is that they are a blueprint, not somebody else’s solution which may or may not work for you. It is a tool that is meant to bring you a set of possibilities presented exclusively to you so that you can choose from them and adapt them to your particular situation. Indeed, you have all of the answers and solutions in you and these programmes have been designed specifically to guide you to them by using multiple shortcuts.
I hope that by now, you get an idea of who I am. I am powerful, knowledgeable and persistent. I will not rest until I see my people in power, strong, happy inside and fulfilled. A huge goal, I know. I also know that the challenges we face currently are immense. We must have bigger ambitions than obstacles to overcome them.
In my everyday life, I love walking in the park and thinking about my programmes, I am obsessed with self-actualisation and my mission of empowering people. I like listening to discussions about leadership, and the ways we can heal. I love reading books, cooking and listening to music. I also like collecting shoes and… notebooks. I love gadgets and I most certainly could not live without coffee or chocolate.
In general, I am a very happy “shorty” with a big attitude and even bigger ambition. People tend to judge me by my height, but they soon realise, I am not small at all, and quite often, that I am not the one who is small…
What makes me who I am today? My resilience, my persistence. Decades of emotional hardship, decades of working with young, teenage souls and adults. Also: decades of studying the human way of thinking which reveals a lot not only about how our mind works but also how emotions and our inner energy work. I can safely say – I have always been destined to be a teacher, a mentor and a guide. My entire life has been designed to improve our inner world so we can create a better outer reality.
I don’t believe in energy, emotions, thoughts… I experience them and I control them. I am someone who has healed very deep wounds and transformed them into growth, awareness and inner power– yes, there is still more work to do but I am strong and happy inside as I hope you will soon notice. Not only that… I have a unique blueprint for you so you can become stronger and happier – your way. I recognise that there is a big difference between knowing, being able to do something and teaching it. I know what needs to be done and I know how to teach it. I am sure that in my blood test, they would have detected mentoring, teaching… if they only knew how to… !
My whole life has been designed to pave the way to a greater understanding of our inner world – to enable people to regain power and control over their emotions, energy and thoughts – to access their inner light and self-love they never lost, but which have been covered by years of difficult experiences, traumatic events as well as conditioning and modelling.
As for people who support and serve others – the leaders – I have found the most effective way to communicate, influence and impact other people through reading and understanding their energy, their emotions and their thinking patterns ( more specifically – meta-programmes and cognition).
I strongly believe that to lead others, you need to heal your inner child’s wounds and face your inner fears first. You need to lead and control your own emotions, energy and thoughts before you can successfully impact others.
If you would like to heal your inner child wounds and find your way back to your authentic Self – feel free to reach out to me or find out much more about how you can flourish internally – here on my website.
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