Here is where my coaching story starts.

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I am a practicing Physical Therapist Assistant and have been for 18 years in Alexandria, MN. The last 12 years have been targeted toward the health of patients who have chronic pain. I began noticing two different things;  First, chronic pain can drag you down and wear on you mentally and emotionally. This can cause a whole new world of issues like worry, sadness and general unhappiness with life.  Pain begins to overflow into your life, work, relationships, marriage, family, friends and parenting.  With that being said,  I have also began to noticed that these same issues of worry, sadness, general unhappiness, overtime, are also the cause of chronic pain. With that background,  I had new motivation to help people get to the bottom of the physical symptoms they were feeling.  Over the last 5 years I’ve taken a deeper interest in the brain,  patterns of thought, and our physical well-being making  Neuro-Linguistic Programming the perfect fit. Coaching those who are ready on a deeper level started helping them turn things around. 

I have had the privilege of bringing 5 awesome children into this world. The relationships with them in the day to day is an amazing adventure but is also taxing at times. As a mother, I see them as children growing up in a very different world than I did. Constant pressures and the addition of social media can challenge their lives. We have to be intentional and careful as parents. There continues to be new studies showing staggering statistics as to  the mental health and general unhappiness along with the lack of confidence many of our children face due to some of these factors.  Neuro-Linguistic Programming is something that every child should know and understand. As a parent, or even grandparent, you should too. While children continue to grow and society continues to change,  this could be a tool so important that it can be a turning point to their success.
 

Having support around you is such an important means in order to make life work and to be enjoyable.  My family and my faith have kept me "Grounded and Growing" all of my life and I don't shy away from that fact.  It is every bit a part of who I am.  I have been married to my wonderful husband for 18 years.  I have a deep understanding of the commitment marriage is.  We have endured the dynamic of a rotating schedule in our home and the stress of that rotating schedule on our relationships and on our family while knowing what it means to keep a healthy relationship and good communication.  With faith and family as the foundation to our marriage, Neuro-Linguistic Programming also offers me a broader perspective of communication.  NLP tools can helps couples keep their marriage strong if that is a goal they desire.  Support is modeled in many different facets.  If you don't have that support system in place yet, lets start.