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Why I’m A Life Coach

Why I do what I do…

When I was given this blog prompt, I thought this is going to be a piece of cake.  My whole being lives for my work.  I was born to do this.

And then…

How do I put words to all that is inside of me?  How do I articulate the pain I feel when I hear stories like – a woman I met in the program years ago has been incarcerated?  Last time I saw her she tried so desperately to convince not only me, but herself that this time was it.  That her pain was so palpable that no one could endure without medicating.  Each and every time she went out she was held in disdain by her community that “doesn’t take inventory”.

How do I put words to watching women as I grew up settle for abuse and neglect while medicating with alcohol?  I could see their hope getting dimmer and dimmer with every drunk and an affirmation of yes, I am worthless and undeserving.

How do I put into words that I am infuriated with the fact every woman who turns for help is directed to a one size fits all solution designed and populated majoratively by men.  That the very people who take oaths to heal are turning women to find healing in shame, guilt, and claiming powerlessness.  Thereby perpetuating the problem.

What about the facts?  What about all the studies that have been done and not just opinion based?  How about the traditional treatment has been questioned and challenged for decades not by opinion, but by research and science?

How do I express to you my dear reader that I know how you feel?  That I have seen, felt and lived the struggle of a learned behavior, a relentless habit, a coping method that held me captive for over 20 years.  I remember the allure of just shutting down all the shoulds that I was avoiding.  I remember watching my bright future collapsing before my very eyes as though on a movie screen in my head.  And being led to the “only option door”.

Why do I do what I do?

To be a life coach that empowers women to make the changes they wish to see in their life.  To accept and know that they are worthy, deserving and capable of those changes.

To change the discussions we have and the programs we offer around women and alcohol.  Women do not come off conveyor belts.  A one size fits all approach will no longer suffice.  Shame, guilt, regret and the powerlessness of the traditional program is not helpful.  It’s harmful.  The traditional program has less than 5% success rate and only 34% of members are women.  It’s time for a change.

That’s why I’m a life coach!

Are you living successfully sober?  Or still struggling?

Feel free to share a bit about yourself or your thoughts by commenting below or  contact me to be interviewed for the Pink Cloud Coaching – Freedom Interview Series.

– Teresa Rodden, Certified Life Coach

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A simple trick that set my passion on fire!

For me it was an unintentional and powerful shift. Reading it in Anthony Robbins’ words today, I see it as a viable tool to turn something bad into something amazing.

“The power to shape your life is gained by changing the meaning you link to an experience.”    – Anthony Robbins

I hope you don’t mind, but I’m gonna get a little spiritual on you with this post.  It’s my truth and demonstrates how using this mindset can be powerful.

My relationship with alcohol was at it’s darkest during a volatile and abusive relationship.  I’m not going to get into the hell of that relationship, but I do want to share the day we first met over 13 years ago.

The evening I was driving to meet Prince Harming (yes, that’s what I’ve dubbed him to protect his identity) I nearly t-boned a car that came out of nowhere across 40th, while I was driving down Harrison street. I distinctly remember thinking “this is a sign”.  I shrugged it off and continued on my way.  Over the years I always thought “it was my angels or God trying to protect me by intercepting that meeting”.

Make sense right?  Read on…

While I was on a morning run only a few months ago it occurred to me, the failed interception on 40th and Harrison all those years ago, wasn’t from the heavens at all.  It was from the enemy.  He didn’t want me to continue on, because he knew I was going to use my experience to do good in this world.  I was going to take my story of victory and triumph and empower women to stand up for themselves.  To become courageous warriors who will find peace – no matter where they’ve been, what they’ve done, or what’s been done to them.  They will find freedom from their tormentor (addiction/habits) without shame, guilt, and regret.  And they will model that for their children and other women.  Together we will make a difference!

I didn’t intentionally go looking to change the meaning of this event.  I hadn’t thought of that fateful day in years.

This new meaning keeps me going when I think I’m spent.  It pushes me through walls of doubt.  It reminds me that I’m not doing this work for me and makes me fight even harder for my cause.

It has set my passion on fire!

I had to go to hell and back to know what I know.  And I would do it again to offer peace for the woman who is still suffering.

What thought, experience, situation, memory could have a different meaning for you?  Please feel free to share.

– Teresa Rodden, Certified Life Coach

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Freedom from Substance Abuse – Interview

44 year old woman –  over 20 years abuse – 7+ years sober

Confession time…while I am excited to kick off Pink Cloud’s Freedom Interview series, I was nervous about interviewing BLESSED regarding her substance abuse.  Maybe I didn’t want to trigger any sadness or regrettable memories.  I was delighted and admittedly surprised by the confidence and solidity she answered with and the dominate emotion that came through was joy.

It’s my greatest hope that her words, experience, and sharing will inspire you.

How old were you when you began your relationship with substance abuse?

About 14 when I started.  17 when I began using daily with the exceptions of my pregnancies.

What was your substance of choice and how often?

Marijuana daily and alcohol binging on weekends.  Alcohol was more social, but I wouldn’t stop with just a drink or two and basically drank until the alcohol was gone.  I usually got a really bad case of the hiccups that I couldn’t stop for anything or I would be way past drunk.  I binged with alcohol routinely on weekends.  Typically a Friday so I could recover for work on Monday.  I would be deathly sick and do it again the following weekend for over 20 years.

When did you realize there was a problem with your using?

With weed it was within the first year I started using daily.   I kept trying to manage it and knew it was managing me.  The drinking was evident by the way I used it and would get deathly sick and do it again the next weekend.  It was fun?

What were some of the strategies you tried to quit or manage your substances?

I would set limits that I never kept.  Pot was hardest because I did it by myself in my home.  Like I said drinking was more social and easier to avoid.

How did it disrupt or interfere with your life?

The most pain I experienced from my substance abuse was the relationships with my kids.  Even though I was there in body, I was absent.

I didn’t know how to communicate or relate with other people.  I had low self-esteem and didn’t trust anyone.    I didn’t know how to have healthy relationships…friendships.

How long have you been free from substance abuse?

I stopped smoking weed completely in 2006.  And I haven’t gotten drunk since 2003/2004?  I can’t even remember.  I have a very occasional drink, like a “spiced” cider.  Just one, I don’t like the feeling anymore than that gives me.

How did you break free from the hold of substance abuse?

Honestly, one day in the shower, I cried out and asked God to take it from me.  I wasn’t a church going practicing Christian or anything.  I just had enough.  I was done.  Actually, just the day before I was resigned to smoking pot for the rest of my life and that life was as good as it was going to get.

There are many experts that say most people simply mature out of the behavior and it just so happens to be whatever program or antidote they are engaged with at that time, they give credit to.  What do you say about that?

I think it’s partially true.  But I can’t help but be convinced that I called out His name for help and my using days have been over since.

What do you do to maintain your sobriety?

I just keep moving.  Resolved that this is my life to live.  I am conscious with who I spend time with and only with people who lift me up.  And simply…one foot in front of the other.  I started attending church regularly in 2009 and have found it fills many of my needs.  To name a few it provides opportunities to be of service, have community, and grow spiritually.

What’s the greatest gifts of living in freedom?

The relationships.  Being able to communicate well with others.  My personal growth as a woman – maturing.  My life to LIVE!

What’s one word that sums up your sobriety?

“Blessed”

End of interview…

Thank you Blessed for sharing your story.  You are inspiring!

If you are now living in “FREEDOM”  and would like to contribute to our healing community by sharing your story, please contact me with Freedom Interview as the subject.

– Teresa Rodden, Certified Life Coach

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I Am Always Me

I am…always me.

This is a thought that occurred to me several months, maybe a year ago.

I teach, coach, and support women to live, speak and be their truth. This sounds so simplistic, yet it’s pretty elusive. Just when we think we have the truth we see or feel a glimpse of something else. And we ask ourselves is that our truth?

It’s important that we recognize that we are always learning and always growing as long as we are living. In fact, if we are not learning and growing, we are dull and dying.

The trick then becomes to go with the flow and have fun with experiencing life.

When I look back at different phases of my life there are very distinctive “I AM” moments.

"To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity." - Irving Wallace www.pinkcloudcoaching.com

Maybe they’ll look familiar to you?

I AM surviving and hoping to break free from my legacy.

I AM experimenting to find out who I am.

I AM done trying to fit into other people’s idea of me.

I AM okay and don’t have to have all the answers.

I AM always me even when I am experimenting…it’s always me.

Here’s how it is now for me and I invite you to try it on…

The truth is about honoring what you really feel not the corrected feeling. What you really think not the corrected thought.

The truth is about being vulnerable and allowing others to experience you in the raw.

You are you and I am me and that’s the way it should always be.

– Teresa Rodden, Certified Life Coach

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Teresa Rodden, Founder & Certified Life Coach

Wisdom from my real life experience, knowledge and skills from my professional certification and training, and a deep love and passion to help women break free from the prison that holds them captive. It’s one thing to make goals… It's a whole new life to create a Pink Cloud.

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