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"First let me say the the experience of working with Morgaine as my life coach has truly been life changing. We began our journey shortly after I ended a 20 year career in commercial real estate. Unfortunately, even though I was financially successful, I was miserable for the entire 20 years because of my career choice.
When we began coaching, my goals were to find peace, freedom and joy. Above all, I wanted to do some type of work that would make my heart sing and I knew, in order to do that, I would have to learn to value myself. As a breast cancer survivor, I wanted to learn to slow down and smell the roses.
I remember Morgaine once asked me what my idea of quiet time would be. My answer was, 'Driving down the freeway at 70 miles per hour eating a bagel and drinking orange juice.' To give you an understanding of how much I have changed, now when I drive I find that I am often 5 miles under the speed limit, rather than 15 miles over! (This is a good thing because I am really a bad driver.)
With Morgaine's help and encouragement, I have finally ended my 15 year struggle with alcohol. I am learning to really value my intuition. I have met, accepted and begun to love those parts of myself that were stuffed way down, deep inside. I have learned that I did not know myself nearly as well as I thought I did.
However, since I have begun to know myself better, I've made another drastic change. I moved from the suburbs of Washington D.C., a city rich with ethnicity and culture, to my home town in the rural south. A town that is not rich with much of anything but friendly people. I came home to live with my Dad who is 84 years old. 2 years ago, spending even 2 weeks in the house I grew up in would have been unthinkable. Now I am finally getting to know my Dad and we have a great time together. I know this opportunity would not have presented itself to me had I not been open to new beginnings.
When I left my old career behind, my plan was to somehow start an interior design business. Even though this has been a lifelong dream for me, a lot of the times during these last few months I didn't believe that it would really happen. Well, guess what! I have been hired by a builder in a nearby city to do a model home. Step by step, I'm moving towards my dream.
Within the next four weeks, I will be meeting with a couple of friends to collaborate on a work of fiction based on the life of a rather colorful character we have living here in my home town. This is something we have talked about for quite awhile and now, finally, it looks like we are going to get started! Never in a million years would I have thought I could come home and find something to do that would earn money and 'make my heart sing'.
Another thing that has changed is I am actually starting to be attracted to men that are gentle, honest and kind. (I have never had a healthy long-term relationship with a man. In fact, I haven't had any kind of relationship with a man in over 12 or 13 years!) No more macho types for me!!!
Other changes include facing reality by being diagnosed with ADHD and getting medicine for the problem; no longer having fears about being poor and losing everything; and no longer having the need to shop incessantly to give myself little treats to make me happy. All of these things have been considerable issues for me for many years.
I know that no matter how hard we try, our lives never become perfect and we never conquer all our fears or our gremlins. However, the changes that have occurred for me these past few months have been monumental. It has been amazing to see and feel myself transform. And the best part of all of this is I know that there is even more yet to come!"
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Rumi