Oct 20, 2021
On today's show I speak to the beautiful Natasha Ariyoshi, Certified Strategic LIfe Coach.
Natasha is an example of even though you grow up in a loving household and a great childhood, you can fall into a lifestyle of "the wrong crowd". Her journey of drinking and drugging and incarceration still was not enough to change, but looking at a 5 year prison sentence before committing to a treatment once again and for once followed through. It has been 14 years! So much love and respect for being clean and sober. Truly an inspiration. She put herself through college, worked as a counselor in treatment centers and now owns her own practice coaching women dealing with stress, burnout, anxiety and depression due to low self esteem and unhealthy boundaries. The whole mess of things. The messy parts. She breaks it down to the easiest steps to digest in a process to understand ourselves first.. Why we do what we do, why we want the things we want.
Getting past the place where you blame everyone but yourself to finally get to where you need to be is such a journey and one that Natasha went through and failed a few times but made it through and finally knew she was the problem, she was to blame. She made a commitment to herself to change.
When things change inside you, things change around you. in her own words- When you feel chaotic, broken and exhausted, your mindset is in survival mode, your body is in fight or flight = irritable, ache-y, feeling fragile inside and out. we blame these external things for our pain (work, bills, obligations) but these things typically dont change and are out of your control. YOUR HAPPINESS IS AN INSIDE JOB.
So take your temperature and check yourself when you start getting too down on yourself and think and speak positivity into your life so that you can respond to things with love instead of reacting in panic.
Make yourself a priority.
Today and everyday I celebrate Natasha and how far she has come and how far she is still to travel! If you want to work with Natasha, she can be found on IG msmental808
Reminder: You are free to be different.