https://www.midlifeuprisingcoaching.com/about-jody daily 0.75 2022-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6275b725e59e8c6e0a1b5f2e/a6888825-457d-4616-a08e-84d4b4178fc7/fillerphoto.jpg About Jody If I told you writing my story felt easy and natural, I wouldn’t be telling you the truth. As someone who has always felt that I had a “normal” childhood and a great family, I could not seem to wrap my head around the fact that I had experienced trauma. I thought trauma was a word reserved for people who had really BIG things happen to them – life-changing things – and that never really landed on me, until now. Now I know that trauma is all the little things that led me to carry grief, loss, shame, self-doubt and self-harm for years. It is the rejection and bullying of my elementary and middle school days. It is the perfectionism and pressure from being a high- level athlete. It is the high school sexual assault and the abandonment from my church family as I discovered my sexual orientation. It is the conversion therapy that I subjected myself to and the feelings of unworthiness, shame and “being bad” that came along with it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6275b725e59e8c6e0a1b5f2e/a737fe8d-31a0-4256-90b5-5b32515752e9/fillerphoto2.jpg About Jody Trauma is the death of my mother at the exact time our relationship was just starting to heal and it is the loss and grief I felt from losing a significant relationship that left me feeling obliterated, lost, confused and angry. My journey into self-awareness, vulnerability, and acceptance began several years ago. I found healing in traditional places such as therapy, workshops, and retreats and in several untraditional places. I found strength, empowerment, perseverance, faith, trust, confidence, and my inner badass on a five-week solo cross country road trip, in which I camped every night and nothing was planned. I found my truth, peace, forgiveness, calm, stillness, and self-love within sacred alternative plant medicines. And now, under the leadership of Michelle Chalfant and The Adult Chair® model, I have found my passion: living in the healthiest version of myself and helping those around me to do the same. I do not pretend to have all the answers or know all the tools. What I can tell you is that I’ve been through some shit, and I’ve clawed my way out on the other side – even when it wasn’t pretty. A few years ago, when I started this journey, I kept joking with my friends that I was having my “midlife breakdown,” but inside I knew I wasn’t joking. I’ve done the work and I continue to do the work. I have turned what I perceived to be my midlife breakdown into my Midlife Uprising! 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This is reflected in many of my virtual sessions as you may find me in the woods, by a creek or just sitting in my own yard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6275b725e59e8c6e0a1b5f2e/ebf2f50c-cdb6-4db5-883d-d0b473077877/nathan-dumlao-Xe7WJc6ZV5k-unsplash.jpg Work With Me - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6275b725e59e8c6e0a1b5f2e/e1aaa6d9-b447-44e5-afa7-3a5ae8ed30ee/virtual-coaching-in-nature-midlife-uprising.png Work With Me - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6275b725e59e8c6e0a1b5f2e/f9813e4b-642f-41f0-a6dd-4a912925d1c3/Screen+Shot+2022-07-18+at+10.02.02+AM.png https://www.midlifeuprisingcoaching.com/home daily 1.0 2022-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6275b725e59e8c6e0a1b5f2e/17978fbb-284c-47dc-b852-f123c185f5a4/_aboutme_possibility2.jpg Home - Hi There! 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