i took the power back
HI I'M TRACY & THIS IS MY STORY
Well what can I say other than I wasn’t well behaved during University. The result of toxins, inadequate sleep, nutrition and exercise eventually took their toll leaving me with Reflux and Chronic Fatigue by my mid-twenties.
But it didn’t end there because no sooner had I upped my health game in the pursuit of healing (through cleansing, fasting and diet, I managed to overcome CF), the workaholic within me decided to rear its ugly head.
With an already weakened body, my inability to please or say no in the corporate workplace drove me into the ground so I ended up with more health problems - Endometriosis, IBS and Chronic Sinusitis. I was also too exhausted to manage Reflux. A quick google search of this will show you that it requires a complete behavior overhaul in terms of what, when and how to eat, as well as other lifestyle changes to manage it. By the start of my thirties, I was well and truly burnt out, a classic textbook example of what not to do if you want to stay healthy.
During this time, I read everything I could get my hands on about health. I became an expert in my own right on the causes and cures of disease so I was not short on knowledge. However, this is mostly what it stayed because for the life of me, I just could not consistently do what I was supposed to do to stay well. Every few weeks, I would beat myself up over my lack of willpower and discipline, always feeling like a failure for not being able to make permanent changes.
Then, in my own personal quest for better health, two years ago while on maternity leave with my first child, I decided to retrain to become a health coach. I chose The Health Coach Institute because their focus is habit change, and not nutrition like other Health Coaching courses. I needed to learn how to make that change I was looking for, I needed to learn the trade secrets.
What became apparent from the onset was that I was not the failure I had told myself I was. I was actually up against a lifetime of underlying beliefs that drove my behaviours, patterns and habits so to re-wire it would require an extremely specific approach.
I would have to slow down and take time out for me, I would have to learn a new way of living and I absolutely needed support to help me for long enough to re-wire. It would also have to be fun and easy because the last thing I needed was more information that I knew wouldn't work. So as a mandatory part of my training, I coached a class mate throughout it and I also was coached in return. It was here that my my life changed and the habit change transformation that i had been looking happened.
Me Now
I know myself better, how I function, and am hyper aware of my drivers. I am all of those things I asked you about on the homepage. I’m a workaholic, a perfectionist and a pleaser. I am always busy, wanting to fulfil my purpose with passion and make my mark on the world but there’s a difference now, I won’t allow myself to get so busy that I de-prioritise my health, my relationships and my life like I used to before when consumed with wanting to achieve. So I stay on track by slowing down, which gives me time to reflect on all the practical fun things I learned to do during study to stay healthy, and actually do them. Awareness and mindfulness at its best. Otherwise, I could easily go back to auto-pilot, skipping meals, exercise and sleep, or wolfing down food eating on the go, or worse still, grazing at night out of pure exhaustion, waking up with reflux spending the entire next day cranky and sick. Of course I’m not perfect, I still have the occasional days where things go wrong but at least I know how to get back up quickly. My health coach friends hold me to account.
Altogether, I have a whole new outlook and perspective on what it takes to be healthy, it required so much more than I could have ever imagined. I am so grateful to HCI for teaching me the tools that have changed my life and that I know can change yours too!
I really feel like I have it all now - Health, Happiness, Balance, Peace and Freedom and trust me, when you get a taste of how good this feels, you will never want to go back to the way things were.
WHY CHOOSE ME TO BE YOUR COACH?
I KNOW YOU. I AM YOU. I GOT YOU.
I HAVE OVERCOME
I AM A MASTER OF HABIT CHANGE
MY PROGRAM WILL ABSOLUTELY TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE
MY BACKGROUND IS IN CORPORATE LEADERSHIP
I AM A PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT GEEK
I WAS BORN TO DO THIS - I AM AN INFP
I HAVE A YOUNG FAMILY SO I UNDERSTAND HOW TIME POOR LIFE IS
I CARE ABOUT YOU MORE THAN YOU COULD EVER KNOW