Within my second year, I started working with a life coach myself, something I had always had interest in, but was also slightly skeptical of - because, well, how do I know it will help if they’re not a psychologist or “trained to a level of my understanding”? It’s bullshit, I know, but I didn’t let fear stop me. Bridging the healing of my mind with proper nutrition and movement lit a fire under me to do more for myself. I started to nourish my body and truly appreciate all it does for me through nutrition and movement. Within my first year of sobriety, I became a certified yoga instructor. Most importantly, I consciously made a choice to choose me, love me, heal me, take care of me, because I still wanted to help others and contribute to the world in a positive way deep down to my core. I kept my job, even got promoted later that year, but more importantly, I started therapy, my journey into sobriety, I cut the bullshit and started getting real about healing my childhood fears of abandonment and rejection. I hope for you that it doesn’t take something that traumatic to see that you are worthy of more. It took a DUI for me to reprioritize my life, to learn to set boundaries, to realize.I couldn’t do it all on my own and what I had been doing was NOT cutting it. For what? 3 weeks of vacation and a promotion, maybe?Īs a recovering people pleaser, I can now acknowledge that I did a lot of that to myself. Working 12 hour days, constantly stress dreaming about work, drinking or smoking to cope with even the smallest irritations. In the first four years of my career, I was killing myself. Where to even start… I started my corporate career out of college and like many, learned to embrace the challenge, politics and shenanigans of corporate life.
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