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Have you quit drinking or are you thinking about quitting drinking and are faced with the question, Now What?
You’ve got to find something that you like more than drinking. Changing your story can help you find that.
Change Your Story is an intimate program where we work together one-on-one and through a holistic approach, I will help you navigate your days with a new set of tools that will not only help to establish and maintain a culture of healing, but will also create a momentum that can support you long after our work together has ended. Through guided self-inquiry, significant change is not only possible, but with the right tools, achievable. How do I know the tools will work? Because we’re creating them together.
Who is this program for?
Women in mid-life (approaching or surpassed) for whom traditional recovery programs have not worked but who still want the accountability that a one-on-one structure has to offer OR for women who are members of traditional recovery programs but feel they would benefit from a holistic-based supplement because they have not gained momentum in their recovery.
Women who are ready to take some action, who see this as an invitation and not a sentence. A Mid-Life Solution.
Women who are ready to cultivate a sense of adventure to break through the perfectionist tendencies that hold so many of us back from doing the thing we want to do.
Women who know there is another level of expansion for them, but they need help defining it.
Change Your Story is for women who are on the cusp of transition, are ready to move on to a new phase but old and tired stories are holding them back.
How will it work?
Once you sign up, you will receive an intake form where you’ll tell me what you want...really, no matter if it is big, scary or uncomfortable to even write it down.
After we decide on a schedule, we’ll connect through two thirty minute Zoom calls twice a week for four weeks, and along with intermittent life-line emails and notes with self-inquiry prompts, we will establish routines, practices and commitments that will help you gain some clarity and grounding infrastructure to your recovery.
By the end of the four weeks, we will have created a plan for small, practical adjustments that address your recovery holistically (mind, body, spirit, creativity) that you can take into your daily practice long after our work together has ended. You can achieve the changes you are longing for.
Specifically, we’ll cover:
Your Enneagram number and how that will help tailor an approach that will likely elicit optimal integration.
We will develop spiritual practices that will encourage introspection and tend to healing the soul.
We will establish routines and new habits that address your physical awareness.
We will play with creativity as a way to express emotions and process discomfort.
And finally, we will not leave this work until we’ve laid solid plans for FUN. Yes, you heard that right. If the sober life isn’t fun, why would anyone do it?
Together, we will create a workable, user-friendly paradigm for establishing and supporting long-term vitality through holistic recovery and one created expressly for you, the mid-life woman.
Who is Sondra?
I am a woman who, at age 45, quit using alcohol as a means to cope with life. That was in 2014 and since then, I’ve figured out (through intensive learning, trial and failure, and loads of practice) the answer to, Now What? The hardest lesson I’ve had to learn is how to stay with discomfort. Through sharing my practices, I can show you how I added so much depth and meaning to my recovery, and not just as a place to focus my attention while I stayed with discomfort (although it's been certainly useful in that way), but also show you how this can be an experience so valuable and precious that you'll not want to forfeit another second of your life over to a substance that is not serving it. I walk my talk and if I can do it, you can too.
I’m not the most popular recovery coach on the block. Why? I like dynamic, sweeping change. And dynamic, sweeping change requires work. Not everyone is ready for this kind of work. I came out of the womb subversive, which has served me. I had generations of stories to disrupt and if I’d been a rule-follower my whole life, I’d still be repeating the patterns handed down to me by my forefathers and mothers. Perhaps you too have many stories to rewrite. What if you are the one they’ve been waiting for?
Disclaimer: This program is not a substitute for professional mental health guidance and care. I am not a doctor. I am a woman who got sober in mid-life and has maintained long-term sobriety through holistic means, which has included spiritual, physical and creative practices. If I have something you want, I can help you.
You have to take alcohol off the table, but sobriety is the only binary in life. Everything on the table is so complex, rich and nuanced and this is where the good life resides. I’d like to give you a glimpse of that life.
Sign up today. There is no better time to Change Your Story, to start walking towards an entirely new way of living. There's an alchemy that happens in the practicing, in the making, in the walking. My life today is living proof.
If this sounds like something you would like to experience and you want to work with me, click that big pink button above. Feel free to use the contact form for any questions.
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What people are saying about Change Your Story:
Sondra’s "Change Your Story" mentoring program gave me the courage and confidence I needed to launch my health coaching business. My past efforts (education, careers, blogging, sobriety) had gotten me close to the start line many times but fear always stopped me. I was stuck and needed a new perspective. I decided to try Change Your Story because Sondra’s challenge to go ALL IN resonated with me. I also know my days of avoiding the real work would be over in the 1:1 format. Sondra’s warm, conversational approach prompted me to identify my limiting beliefs and talk through ways to handle them. Her business experience saved me time and money in setting up all the things that go into a website. And Sondra’s creative and enthusiastic spirit showed me how I can engage people in making the pursuit of health a rewarding and even enjoyable adventure. We worked together to clarify my offering, identify and understand my audience, and define my deliverables. We worked hard and had a total blast doing it! I’ve crossed the start line and am confident I can continue for the long haul. Regardless of your story, I believe Sondra has a way to coax out the best in you. Go for it!
Jill Jung, www.honesthealthhabits.com
When Sondra asked via her newsletter if I had something I wanted to accomplish creatively, something I needed to bring forth, I immediately knew she was talking to me directly, thought a thousand things, and was overwhelmed. And I signed up anyway, and I’m so grateful to my month-ago self that I did. Yes, I was self-editing. Yes, I was stuck doing things over and over because I’d always done them, but I was MORE stuck NOT doing things over and over because I’d always NOT done them. Working with Sondra got me unstuck. Like all good coaches, Sondra helped me break things down into little manageable tasks, but it was much much more. Like a good, reasonable friend, she helped define "manageable" by guiding me through the muck of other things that got in the way. She cleared the path and blew away the haze of indecision by offering solutions that were concrete, but also flexible, repeatable, and things that could evolve as I slowly grew into launching my site. Her expertise and experience meant that working together to “just do the thing” turned into finding things I could “just do” without all the manic overwhelm that usually had me sitting on my hands for years. I had her notes and two hours with her to work toward every week. It was a quick month, and she offered all the accountability and cheerleading and real confidence—not the performed confidence I’d been relying on—to launch my site and set my ideas free.
I was in a terribly deep creative block and even doubting whether it was honest to call myself a writer. Through the weeks we spent together in her Change Your Story offering, Sondra helped me break through the block, harness the magic that lives in the intersection of inspiration and discipline, and push the boundaries of what felt safe and comfortable. The resulting piece has been called my "best yet" and I'm so proud of it for both the product and the process. More than that, I'm reinvigorated in my practice, have a ton of new ideas to work with, and am encouraged to keep going.