Sad Statue in Reykjavik, Iceland
“I think Virginia has met the person she can’t help,” confessed my client about her previous thoughts. However, feeling better than the dark pit she’d been in for years, she decided to take my Resolved for Results program a second time.
At 60-years-old, she told me she was “habitually, genetically, psychologically, emotionally and medically depressed.”
For over ten years, she was “flatlined, checked out and not showing much interest in anything.” Add to that traits she learned during her childhood from an emotionally unstable parent: judgmental and overly critical of others and herself.
We met at a gym many years earlier. She recalled that I was friendly towards her and did some kind of work about career and business. She thought about contacting me but never did.
Just before her divorce from a 27-year marriage and leaving the house she helped to design and build, she reached out for help.
“I had to do something different. I had to trust someone because my voice, what I had been telling myself, wasn’t reliable.”
This was a world away from who she was at 16-years-old.
As a teenager, she was an apprentice to an artist from whom she received extensive lessons and even traveled with this man and his family. Visiting them every summer in Santa Fe, they became another set of parents to her for seven years.
It was during their trip to Mexico that he developed his distinctive style that catapulted him to become a world-famous artist whose work is now displayed in the Smithsonian.
Eventually, they went their separate ways.
My client married a good man and joined him to create a successful, construction business. She believed she “should” have been happy, yet she spiraled down into an ever-deepening depression.
She beat herself up heavily for this, wondering what was wrong with her.
Used to blaming herself, she didn’t realize her self-proclaimed fault wasn’t the reason for how she felt.
Not doing what she loved was at the core of her depression.
She talked herself into believing this didn’t matter, yet she now sees that “this was the key to my soul!”
How she went from “the dark side” to the light.
My client began to experience feeling up and then returned to her familiar down periods. As she learned new tools and perspectives, she was able to sustain feeling good for longer periods of time.
Yet, she didn’t trust feeling light because it was different from the darkness that became her uncomfortable, comfort zone.
Unbeknownst to her, she’d been in preparation for when her new self emerged, which she now calls “a person I don’t even know who’s now come back.”
When her famed teacher came to her town, she felt well enough emotionally and mentally to attend his exhibit with another artist friend.
Little did she realize that being in this environment would trigger her turning point. Her spark for living reignited, and her whole life transformed into a joy that she didn’t believe she’d ever experience.
One month since her “shift” and in a few days from the time of my writing this, she’ll be a guest at this artist’s home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, for a couple of weeks. After, she’ll visit friends in Colorado, a trip she wasn’t up to making a few months ago.
Because of her extra-ordinary and personal background as his student and apprentice as well as being considered one of the family, she’s enthusiastically considering a professional recommendation to write a memoir about her experience with this artist and his early days.
It took her nine months to make this dramatic turnaround and overcome more than a decade of sadness and inertia. She got her life back.
“Before and during the beginning of my working with you, I never believed that I would be anything other than dark and depressed.”
There was no way she would have dreamed up or planned the way life orchestrated what’s now happening.
Her change was possible because she:
- Resolved to change
- Got help
- Gained clarity
- Let go of the past
- Unveiled and released beliefs she didn’t know were holding her back
- Learned new tools and perspectives
- Followed the positive voice in her head instead of the negative ones
- Set powerful intentions.
All of these changed her energy, which led her to be at the right place at the right time and willing to receive her heartfelt desires and happiness… even though they seemed impossible!
One month after meeting her old teacher, she sent me this text:
“Still up!!!
I honestly didn’t think it would ever happen.
Thank you for believing in me and teaching me how to be happy.”
After years of isolating herself and being withdrawn from the world, now she “can’t stop talking.”
Her enthusiasm for life is contagious.
She told me, “I can’t thank you enough. You saved my life.”
It’s never too late to do what you love and be happy!
Don’t give up.
It’s worth overcoming your mental chatter and limiting beliefs that you can’t do what you love because of fill in the blank reasons.
You are worth it.
You can be financially successful. You can build your business to stellar levels, enjoy your ideal work or share your gifts in a BIGGER way.
You can be happy.
Starting now, you can create your best life ever! It’s your choice.
I work with people, at any age, who choose to share their gifts or business in a BIGGER way but don’t know how, feel stuck or would benefit from new tools or support. I help them be richly compensated doing what they love by aligning with their Soul’s goals.
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