I want to teach them to Live Well and Be Strong
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Iʻm Roxanne .
I Am a Life Coach, Domestic Violence survivor and someone who wants everyone else to Live Well and Be Strong.
I have worked for the last decade with those who have experienced the very same things that I have and knowing, as well, what it is that the majority of DV survivors go through when we are finally freed from the ties that bind us...to our abuser, and sometimes, our abuser is not the person who we are partnered with.
Abuse can happen anywhere.
I Am a Survivor
As things go...I think about the things that could have derailed me. Everyday, more and more, I figure out ways to just get through the day. Usually, that includes, on some level, helping someone else get to where they want to be in their lives.
I teach other survivors to KNOW without a doubt that what we each have been through can be with purpose. I teach them to see what they never saw before and this opens their awareness a little more.
When they can see with a bigger sense of awareness, with a brand new way of looking at their own lives and showing them in the familiarity of their own neighborhood, and can grasp the simplicity of the work involved in creating a new balance in their lives, what also happens is that they begin, too, to see the possibilities that were stolen from them, from their souls, by being told that they could not, should not, would not....
I tell them that they can, should, will, ought to...I tell them that there is no sin loving the skin they are in, that there is not one thing wrong or selfish in being their own best selves.
Choosing to become the very best me that I can is the best marketing tool I have.
Helping others to create their own best lives is my proof that it works.
Everyone wants to be their best selves. I want to show everyone that I can how to do that.
Donʻt Believe in what you cannot see - believe in what you can create...
We are all the same people who we were when we were kids, at least in the dreams and hopes that we have for our lives. It is the world that caused each of us to question our hopes, to question if we are becoming the right version of ourselves.
No, I Am not there yet, and well, I donʻt think I will ever get wherever "there" is. I just like sharing these things with other people. I figured that since I like to feel okay about me, other people would also want to feel okay about themselves. I Am told such lovely things about what other people would like to have happen for them.
I Am very direct - I donʻt tell people what they want to hear. I tell them what will help them get to what is their best version of their Selves.
This is my gift
I use it to help others see who they are right now so that they can become their best selves on the daily basis.
I know what it is like to take the time and do the work involved in rising to oneʻs own best level of Self on the daily basis.
I Am not done yet, doing what I Am Able to do for myself so that I can heal from all these things that changed who I Am. I chose to, through all of these things that came crashing into my life, carry on through becoming strong and healthy....I like publicly speaking about how I started my journey to healing , returning to college in 2015, to other people who have had to utilize the resources afforded by the Welfare to Work program in Los Angeles County. For more about that, you can send me an email and ask me about it ....maybe I can answer it, and if I canʻt, maybe I know someone who can...
Abuse changes you.
It makes you think that you are the worst person on this planet, sometimes as though what lies you and anyone else are being told about who you are is the truth. It took me a very long time to believe better thoughts and to learn to curb my reactions to the emotional triggers, a very long time to be able to see me and Love my Self as I Am now.
I Am Stronger, Healthier, Wiser than I was just a decade ago. In the time that has passed, I have learned a whole lot about our bodies, more about our minds, and have learned to turn these rancid memories into tools for transformation.
It takes time to believe in yourself after having gone through a lifetime of being told that there was nothing to believe in. It can be hard to believe that there is hope after the abuse. There are a million and one questions that anyone who, when they finally become their own survivor, will ask themselves, again and again, only to have no answer.
The one question that seems difficult for anyone to answer is What are You going to do for YOU now???
My easy answer is to teach hula again, and of course, so that I can work while I am returning to the dance floor, this time, giving my knowledge of this dance to my younger fellow students at Mt San Antonio Collegeʻs Arise Program. The best thing in the world, for me, will be to return to this campus as one of its educators, one of its studentsʻ mentors, and not just to teach what I know keeps the body healthy but more, to teach others and remind myself of the importance that is allowing the Soul its Voice.
My Soul hoʻolelo - Speak fluently in a count of eight.
It does not know one language.
It understands all languages (or at least wants to), in a count of 8.
That has been my intention for at least three years now and most recently, I am bravely stepping back out on to the dance floor for this very reason. It is why I am raising these funds. I Am returning to the Dance Floor but, I would also like to return to the work force, still dancing my cares away....but this time, in a group effort.
Not only to teach this dance, but also, to teach the importance of keeping ourselves healthy and well...I would like to certify to be a group fitness teacher. Because I like doing everything legit, this is not different - to everything else that is all part of my goal to daily become a better version of myself, I have also chosen that I would like to add certification as a Group Fitness Instructor through The American Council on Exercise (known industry wide as ACE).
And to that end, I have to say thank you to my friend, Kevin Gullickson (Radio Drive ) and my lovely fellow Pisces friend, Yvonne, for making it possible that I recently was CPR/AED certified through the American Red Cross. Mahalo to you guys....thanks - it was like the first step on the Path. It told me that I have got to do this.
Initially, I thought I would certify as a personal trainer but, nah - I Am and have always taught the dance which I Love so Very Much - Hula, and I will always teach it. This is why I am studying to take the certification exam at my college.
Having support for this already, just with the words of encouragement given to me by those who I Am closest with, and, as well, the people who ask me what I am planning on doing, is great, and I will appreciate all of the support that I can get. It means a whole lot that anyone will even read this, share this and help me make this happen....
I thank you all so very much for your support
.Mahalo Nui Loa
ROXANNE
Click Here for your free eBook The Bones of The Soul...by Rev. Roxanne K. Cottell
#LosAngelesKahunaRox #TheRockin9th #TheManaOBlog #TheGhettoAllegory #ChickWisdomBlog #HoOManaWellness #SoulFusion22 #TheCottellWitches #UnSilenceTheViolence #LiveALOHA
I Am a Life Coach, Domestic Violence survivor and someone who wants everyone else to Live Well and Be Strong.
I have worked for the last decade with those who have experienced the very same things that I have and knowing, as well, what it is that the majority of DV survivors go through when we are finally freed from the ties that bind us...to our abuser, and sometimes, our abuser is not the person who we are partnered with.
Abuse can happen anywhere.
I Am a Survivor
As things go...I think about the things that could have derailed me. Everyday, more and more, I figure out ways to just get through the day. Usually, that includes, on some level, helping someone else get to where they want to be in their lives.
I teach other survivors to KNOW without a doubt that what we each have been through can be with purpose. I teach them to see what they never saw before and this opens their awareness a little more.
When they can see with a bigger sense of awareness, with a brand new way of looking at their own lives and showing them in the familiarity of their own neighborhood, and can grasp the simplicity of the work involved in creating a new balance in their lives, what also happens is that they begin, too, to see the possibilities that were stolen from them, from their souls, by being told that they could not, should not, would not....
I tell them that they can, should, will, ought to...I tell them that there is no sin loving the skin they are in, that there is not one thing wrong or selfish in being their own best selves.
Choosing to become the very best me that I can is the best marketing tool I have.
Helping others to create their own best lives is my proof that it works.
Everyone wants to be their best selves. I want to show everyone that I can how to do that.
Donʻt Believe in what you cannot see - believe in what you can create...
We are all the same people who we were when we were kids, at least in the dreams and hopes that we have for our lives. It is the world that caused each of us to question our hopes, to question if we are becoming the right version of ourselves.
No, I Am not there yet, and well, I donʻt think I will ever get wherever "there" is. I just like sharing these things with other people. I figured that since I like to feel okay about me, other people would also want to feel okay about themselves. I Am told such lovely things about what other people would like to have happen for them.
I Am very direct - I donʻt tell people what they want to hear. I tell them what will help them get to what is their best version of their Selves.
This is my gift
I use it to help others see who they are right now so that they can become their best selves on the daily basis.
I know what it is like to take the time and do the work involved in rising to oneʻs own best level of Self on the daily basis.
I Am not done yet, doing what I Am Able to do for myself so that I can heal from all these things that changed who I Am. I chose to, through all of these things that came crashing into my life, carry on through becoming strong and healthy....I like publicly speaking about how I started my journey to healing , returning to college in 2015, to other people who have had to utilize the resources afforded by the Welfare to Work program in Los Angeles County. For more about that, you can send me an email and ask me about it ....maybe I can answer it, and if I canʻt, maybe I know someone who can...
Abuse changes you.
It makes you think that you are the worst person on this planet, sometimes as though what lies you and anyone else are being told about who you are is the truth. It took me a very long time to believe better thoughts and to learn to curb my reactions to the emotional triggers, a very long time to be able to see me and Love my Self as I Am now.
I Am Stronger, Healthier, Wiser than I was just a decade ago. In the time that has passed, I have learned a whole lot about our bodies, more about our minds, and have learned to turn these rancid memories into tools for transformation.
It takes time to believe in yourself after having gone through a lifetime of being told that there was nothing to believe in. It can be hard to believe that there is hope after the abuse. There are a million and one questions that anyone who, when they finally become their own survivor, will ask themselves, again and again, only to have no answer.
The one question that seems difficult for anyone to answer is What are You going to do for YOU now???
My easy answer is to teach hula again, and of course, so that I can work while I am returning to the dance floor, this time, giving my knowledge of this dance to my younger fellow students at Mt San Antonio Collegeʻs Arise Program. The best thing in the world, for me, will be to return to this campus as one of its educators, one of its studentsʻ mentors, and not just to teach what I know keeps the body healthy but more, to teach others and remind myself of the importance that is allowing the Soul its Voice.
My Soul hoʻolelo - Speak fluently in a count of eight.
It does not know one language.
It understands all languages (or at least wants to), in a count of 8.
That has been my intention for at least three years now and most recently, I am bravely stepping back out on to the dance floor for this very reason. It is why I am raising these funds. I Am returning to the Dance Floor but, I would also like to return to the work force, still dancing my cares away....but this time, in a group effort.
Not only to teach this dance, but also, to teach the importance of keeping ourselves healthy and well...I would like to certify to be a group fitness teacher. Because I like doing everything legit, this is not different - to everything else that is all part of my goal to daily become a better version of myself, I have also chosen that I would like to add certification as a Group Fitness Instructor through The American Council on Exercise (known industry wide as ACE).
And to that end, I have to say thank you to my friend, Kevin Gullickson (Radio Drive ) and my lovely fellow Pisces friend, Yvonne, for making it possible that I recently was CPR/AED certified through the American Red Cross. Mahalo to you guys....thanks - it was like the first step on the Path. It told me that I have got to do this.
Initially, I thought I would certify as a personal trainer but, nah - I Am and have always taught the dance which I Love so Very Much - Hula, and I will always teach it. This is why I am studying to take the certification exam at my college.
Having support for this already, just with the words of encouragement given to me by those who I Am closest with, and, as well, the people who ask me what I am planning on doing, is great, and I will appreciate all of the support that I can get. It means a whole lot that anyone will even read this, share this and help me make this happen....
I thank you all so very much for your support
.Mahalo Nui Loa
ROXANNE
Click Here for your free eBook The Bones of The Soul...by Rev. Roxanne K. Cottell
#LosAngelesKahunaRox #TheRockin9th #TheManaOBlog #TheGhettoAllegory #ChickWisdomBlog #HoOManaWellness #SoulFusion22 #TheCottellWitches #UnSilenceTheViolence #LiveALOHA
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