It Will Work for You Too

When I was in fifth grade my whole class did the presidential fitness challenge.

I was the only one who couldn’t do a sit up or finish the mile run. (Let’s not even talk about the bar hang. Needless to say, I was a disappointment to the president.)

When I was a young mother I would go to church and hear people say things like, “My mother was so patient and she never raised her voice.”

I was the only one who had yelled at my kids in the car on the way to church.

When David and I went to hospital fundraisers, all the people around us would raise their paddles to donate thousands of dollars for cancer research, while I was sat next to them in a dress that I had used two credit cards to pay for because there wasn’t enough credit available on one of them.

I was the only one living paycheck to paycheck.

When I turned forty, I was failing at all of the “basics”—eating right, exercising, flossing, journaling, getting up early, saving for retirement, reading my scriptures—I wasn’t doing any of it.

I was the only one who couldn’t figure out how to “do life,” let alone “reach my potential.”

I was a mess. And I knew there was something seriously wrong with me.

Everybody else had figured it out somehow, but I hadn’t. And I knew I never would either, because deep down, I knew I was the problem and I couldn’t be fixed.

But I was wrong.

And so are you.

First, there is nothing wrong with you.

You aren’t doing it wrong. You just have a human brain that wants to avoid pain at all costs, and is really, really good at noticing your flaws. You are doing it all exactly like you should be and you are reaching your potential just by breathing. You and your life, right now, are enough.

Second, anything you want to change, you can.

You are not uniquely messed up. You are not the one human who just can’t change and just can’t get the life you want.

You can.

It starts by thinking, “Maybe, I could. Maybe. I mean, probably not, but maybe. Maybe it’s possible, even for me.”

I know it is.

Because I was the only one I was sure it wouldn’t work for and it worked for me.

And every day I help my clients—who thought the very same thing once—to love exactly who and where they are right now…and also get the life they want, just because they want it.

That is what is available TO ALL OF US.

Especially you.

I believe in you. And I’m giving you permission to believe in you too.

xo,

April