About Me
I am blessed. I am privileged to have gone through training with the Martha Beck Coaching Institute and become a “certified Martha Beck life coach”. I also studied under the guidance of, Abigail Steidley, a certified Martha Beck Master coach and the teacher of her Mind-Body Coach Training program. This training and working with other Martha Beck coaches, has led me into looking at my life in a totally different way. It’s as if I’ve been handed new glasses as a new way to view my world. I can now look back at my life and say “yes, it was all for an important reason; it brought me to where I am today, to the life I live today and to all of the special people that are in my life. It’s why I am a Healthy Life Coach, helping others with their lives.
I have lived a lot of my life with an eating disorder. Somehow I came to believe that my body wasn’t good enough, that I wasn’t good enough. I thought that I had to constantly try and change myself and my body. I’ve been on diet after diet and battled bulimia. I was always searching outside of myself for answers to fixing myself. I read book after book, sought counseling, ate until I was way underweight to way overweight ~ always working, working, working to find the better Debi.
Thank God, now I know the blessed answer ~ I didn’t need to be fixed, because I was never broken. I was always wonderfully okay. What a big release of freedom to finally come to realize that.
I found Radical Self Compassion for myself. It’s radical because I’ve never understood or had it before. That’s what I bring to my coaching, what I show my clients. That they don’t need to be fixed, it’s in acceptance of themselves just as they are, that’s the path toward the freedom that they’ve been looking for. If my clients are looking for weight loss, body acceptance, to get out of debt, whatever it is; the first step is acceptance of themselves. It’s the love, self compassion and inner joy that comes first.
As I look back at my life, I see it as my journey. I thank God that I no longer need an eating disorder to hide behind, but I’m thankful for the experience. It ended up being my greatest teacher. It was there when I didn’t know of any other way to handle life. Where I used to use food to stuff down my feelings, now I am able to allow them. It’s okay to laugh, cry, be silly or quiet ~ I take care of me. I am closer to my family and much more open and honest than I have ever been.
I am so not perfect, but I thrive on my own imperfect adventure! I am so honored to be a part of other women’s journeys into discovering their own adventures in self discovery and self compassion.
