How I Created Financial Freedom

How I Created Financial Freedom.

For years people have asked me, how did you get into coaching, why did you leave a successful corporate career with a family to support, why take such a RISK?!

In order to answer that, it’s helpful to look back at the path I was on, before joining the Proctor Gallagher Institute of Coaches.

In my early twenties, I was living in New York City and working in the corporate sector. I had moved to New York from Rockford, Illinois when I was 19 and shortly after, began working on Wall Street.

For years, I moved up through the corporate ladder, within the Marketing, Entertainment, and Media sectors. By the age of 26, I was successful professionally, but emotionally and spiritually, I was struggling.

On September 11, 2001, like so many of my fellow New Yorkers, I was heading to the Towers when the first plane hit.

It wasn’t until 2004 though that I realized how much that day affected me. I was in my company's boardroom, attending a meeting - not unlike most days, when I experienced my first anxiety attack.

In those days, anxiety disorders were considered a taboo topic - not something one would openly admit to suffering from.

I suffered from several more attacks before speaking with a doctor, who suggested I seek out treatment with a therapist, take medication to stop the attacks, or try something like yoga. Not wanting to suppress these feelings any longer, medication didn’t feel like the best route, and talk therapy didn't feel like an option for various reasons, so I opted to try yoga.

I fell in love with the practice and spiritual yogic teachings. For a time, yoga, meditation and eventually talk therapy helped and I was able to forge ahead with my career, start my family, and make the move to Chicago, closer to my family and where I was raised.

I continued to climb that corporate ladder… doing what I thought I was supposed to in order to create ‘Success’ and Financial Freedom, however, the higher I went in any organization the more unfulfilled, unhealthy and unhappy I became mentally, physically and spiritually. I suppressed these emotions through various external unhealthy sources, which only lead to more stress, anxiety, un-serving habits and burn out.

It was really when I decided that I wanted to have another baby that things started to shift for me. I had sort of an awakening after realizing how unhealthy I truly was:

• I had, had several miscarriages.
• Went through several surgeries to remove an aggressive form of skin cancer/melanoma as a result of being exposed to the toxic air on 9/11.
• I was constantly bloated and easily carrying around an extra 40 lbs. of weight that made me uncomfortable in my body from poor dietary choices/habits.
• My skin looked horrible and
• My relationships… were not as solid as they seemed, especially the one with myself.

At the advice of a close friend, I decided to see an acupuncturist – the amazing Sae Mickelson – and looking back now I can see how things started to come together. Sae helped me start to truly heal from the inside out. In my opinion, this is the only way to properly heal.

I eventually enrolled in Health & Wellness school through the Institute of Integrative Nutrition. I became a certified Yoga and Meditation instructor. In time, I was blessed to give birth to my youngest daughter and eventually found my way to the Proctor Gallagher Institute where the healing continued through the unparalleled mentorship and coaching I have been fortunate to receive.

I will tell you though the road was not always easy. Doing this internal work is the hardest yet most rewarding work you will ever experience. We must do this ‘work’ by ourselves but we don’t have to do it alone. For that I am eternally grateful.

By investing in myself through proper mentorship I was able to leave my day job and launch my Health & Wellness business full-time. Since launching in 2017 my company has gone through different phases… all which have led me to what you’re experiencing today with the re-launch of my private group Haley’s Health.

So while my journey started with the physical aspects of health & wellness where I landed are with the mental aspects. Mental Health. When you fully realize you have this infinite power within you… that you can BE, DO, HAVE and, CREATE anything your heart and soul desires… that’s the real magic and after all why we are all here…to help and serve others and to create our own realities and that includes Financial Freedom.

To Your Growth,

xoH.

PS) Join my private group (link below) for a live event next week only on how to Re-Write Your Money Story to create Financial Freedom. https://www.facebook.com/groups/haleyshealth