Hey guys, this is my leak. This is the podcast. And today I am going to spend just a little bit of time talking about the mystery and what I find to be the magic of life coaching. And so I am thinking back to when I started therapy in 2012. I don't know that I even really

knew what it was or what it would do besides maybe make me feel better when I was in this

crisis. At least that's what I was hoping for. When I was in my early

teens, I went for a few sessions to get back into college after being kicked out due to my

grades. The sessions were very helpful and matter of fact. And that therapist, a white woman,

told me to change my major to something that I liked and

wanted versus doing something that I thought would appease others.

Wow.

I can do that, I thought.

Yes, you can.

She also told me that I didn't have to take being cursed out by my mom over the phone.

If she calls and she's screaming and cursing, you just hang up the phone.

I was like, hang up the phone. Are you serious? If I hang up the phone on my mom, she will most

definitely kill me. Turns out this therapist was also right because the first time I hung up the phone,

I was both terrified and empowered. I don't have to be on the

receiving end of anything I don't want to be as an adult from anyone after all. And if you are

wondering how things went after the first time I hung up the phone, I think there was some initial

shock and then there was a short break in the. I think there was some initial shock. And then there was a short break

in the relationship. And then there was some changed behavior because she started to learn that

there wouldn't be anyone on the other end of the phone if she behaved that way. That, you know,

that was one thing. Or if she went there there she would just hang up before she knew what was

coming because she knew I would do it so I began with a little bit of a detour because I don't know

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