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My Story

Several years ago my life went topsy turvy.  The things I thought I knew and understood to be true, turned out not to be so certain. I couldn't seem to put the pieces of the puzzle in the right place, nothing fit any more.  I felt emotionally tapped out.  Honestly, I cried  a lot, which is very out of character for me.    I was feeling so much pain, so much sorrow, so much confusion and I could not get a grip on any of it.   My husband, bless his heart, tried. He just did not know how to help.  My life was changing in big ways and I thought it was a disaster.  My kids were all leaving the house, we were moving, I was trying to re-enter the work force with little success, my dad's health was failing and my youngest child had just "come out".  I was deeply questioning my faith and myself.   The life I had  meticulously pieced together for years seemed to be coming apart at the seams and I wasn't sure what to do to put it back together.   Life just happens", is what I heard over and over again and I did not want it to "just keep happening" to me!  I cannot remember exactly how but I stumbled upon a workshop called "Train your Brain" by master certified life coach Jody Moore.  I figured things could not possibly get worse, so why not?  In this workshop I learned that I had the power to think anything I wanted, feel how I wanted to feel, get the results I hoped for and that my brain had been running amuck with me!  What?  It seemed impossible.  Surely, I was in control of my own brain.  Nope.    I learned how to differentiate my thoughts from the facts (let me tell you that was the tricky part).  Our brains want to be right and collect a lot of evidence to that end, but that doesn't make it a fact.  Thoughts trigger emotions, which trigger our actions and thats where we get our results from.  This is such great news!  In fact it  changed everything so much that I wanted to pass it on to others so I enrolled in the Certified Coach Program at The Life Coach School and here I am.  Don't get me wrong here, it is work to sort it all out.  Even as a certified coach myself, I still have a coach, because I am a human and I get tangled in my thoughts and sometimes I need someone to see from the outside.   For me is has been life changing work, but work I am so willing to engage in.  I am in control of my own emotions, no one can make me feel anything, I have taken back that power.  I know that I cannot control or change anyone but myself and that is liberating!  I find myself curious, not judgemental of both myself and others.  Life does not just happen to me anymore, I am living and intentional life and it is far bigger than anything I could have ever imagined!  Come with me, let me show you how!!