You read that right – 3 spine surgeries. And no, I didn’t have an accident, no one in my family has back problems, and the doctors are just as baffled as we are by this whole ordeal.
I’m going to be very real with you – the nerve pain from spine issues is the most horrific thing I’ve ever experienced. It knocks the wind out of you, it’s relentless, it’s like you’re being violently stabbed while being on fire and hit by a car all at the same time. And it NEVER stops. Nothing touches it, and my gosh it’s your SPINE and your nerves! These are the things responsible for movement, feeling, and living an independent life!
I went down hard on 3 separate occasions and lived through two lumbar microdiscectomies and a spinal fusion. I can honestly tell you that the only reasons I made it through (and defied some odds I might add) are first and foremost because of God’s grace, and secondly because of my personal growth journey.
My experience with my life coach has been focused on business and relationships, but my mindset transformation has been all encompassing. The emotional resilience coaching I did to overcome adversity in my career and personal life benefitted me in the most profound an unexpected ways during the most painful and challenging health scares of my life.
How Life Coaching Helps You Overcome Obstacles
As a life coach in Dallas, TX, I empower stuck go getters through the ‘what now?’ chapters of life. I always say that if something isn’t happening in your life, it’s because you are lacking clarity. I know this because I used to feel like every time I tried to move forward in my life I would bump up against an invisible wall.
Obstacles are sneaky like that. Life coaching helps you to see what makes up that invisible wall. Said another way, life coaching uncovers the ways we unknowingly sabotage ourselves. Limiting beliefs, past pain, feeling unworthy, and self confidence struggles are a few of the most common obstacles we face. Through coaching we are able to identify all of the threads that these obstacles are tied to in your life so that we can remove them, rewrite them and move past them.
Life coaching helps you overcome obstacles by:
- Making the unconscious conscious so that you can move from the passenger seat to the driver’s seat of your own life
- Getting your clarity on who you really are – not your circumstances or who you are supposed to be
- Strengthening emotional resilience – coaching is HUGE for this!
- Teaching you how to develop a positive mindset that feels realistic, good and authentic to you
How A Positive Mindset Can Change Your Life
I could write an entire book about this. Through my terrifying journey of suffering through nerve pain and back surgeries, I have defied so many odds it’s baffling. I have endured the most life altering pain (I spent a month on bedrest leading up to my last surgery because of it), I didn’t lose any muscle mass when I was told I most certainly would experience “significant” atrophy and I went from not being able to walk at all to going to dance class 3 months later. And I could go on!
Our minds are so powerful! You can have an overcoming challenges mindset, or a victim of circumstance mindset. You can build resilience through life challenges, or you can build a lot of reasons why you can’t and why you’re not enough.
My personal growth journey story is one of overcoming, triumph and defying the odds, thanks to God and the power of a positive mindset. If you are seeking a mindset coach or personal growth coach, Dallas is home, but you can live anywhere and coach with me.
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