Coach Diedre's Story

One day several years ago, I called my mother and started complaining about my life.

By that time, I'd been a wife, working mom, a stay-at-home mom, and adult student.  I'd also been stuck in what I now know is a cycle of monotony.  There was no joy in my life, I wasn't happy -- and I didn't know why.

My mother silenced me with one simple phrase.  She said, "If nothing changes, nothing changes." The call to my mother was that proverbial wake-up call.  After that, I knew I had to stop complaining about my life, stop waiting for change, and just start changing.  After years not knowing what I didn't know, it became clear to me:  If I don't change, I would be stuck forever in a life I could only complain about.

That's when I started on my path of self-empowerment, personal transformation, inner growth, and peace.  As I continued down that path, I began to eliminate bouts of temporary depression, weight gain, anger, resentment and the stagnation of monotony.

As I emerged from the place I'd been, I realized I had been given a gift, one I had to be willing to share with anyone else who was frustrated, unfulfilled, unhappy -- but willing to work for something else, something better.