I’ve been talking to a lot of clients lately who are experiencing a lot of emotional turmoil, from extreme loneliness, to career and family upset, to financial distress, and just about anything else life has to throw at you.
And you’re not alone.
It may seem to you that I sit here behind the scenes with a perfectly ordered life, issuing post after post about emotional eating, how to lose weight, the miracle of enzyme therapy, and whatever else occurs to me that may interest you. But perfect?
Far from it!
Over the past five years, since I left my corporate job, my life has been nothing but turbulent. From my fear over losing it all to pursuingg my passion that has kept me up countless nights, to cutting ties with people in my life who I just knew had to go (relative or not), to paring things down to a minimalistic lifestyle in an effort to keep the lights on and pay the mortgage on time, my life has been far from perfect.
My naiveté early on led me to believe that now that I had found my life’s purpose, I’d be living on easy street. I was finally headed downstream instead of struggling to go upstream all the time!
Oh how ignorant I was.
Discovering my purpose was nothing short of glorious, for sure. For so long, I’d been walking around in a daze, uncertain as to what true fulfillment was, and if I’d ever find it. Then one day, it hit me like a brick, and it’s never been the same since.
After enduring an extremely troubling nine months that nearly took my life, and was the result of a misappropriation of medication, I stumbled upon holistic health, and realized that THAT was what I’d been looking for all along, and threw myself in knee deep. I couldn’t get enough!
Magazine after magazine, website after website, I was enthralled, and was pissed too. Why wasn’t any of this more mainstream? Why couldn’t I walk into my doctor’s office and be offered herbal remedies as often as drugs? It wasn’t too long before I got my answer. They don't want to cure disease and can only patent drugs, not food.
Which got me even more pissed!
Suppressing natural cures for the sake of the almighty dollar, not to mention all the lives unnecessarily lost over it, is a sin of unspeakable injustice, and it almost happened to me. Which is why I took it upon myself to do something about it.
When people questioned my decision to leave my job and go out on my own, abandoning the security of a high-paying corporate career, I couldn’t figure out what they couldn’t see for themselves. There was no question in my mind. In fact, it was the most clear-headed decision I’d ever made.
Some people seemed to support me, when they really didn’t, and others just outright didn’t, blatantly warning me of the hardship ahead and how few businesses actually make it. Looking back, I now know they were right, and had I listened to them, I wouldn’t be writing this post.
But there’s something about doing what you love to do that’s too addictive to simply turn your back on it and become a victim to the fears that plague you when you willingly go against the grain. The chance to feed my creativity on a daily basis, and coach others around the very same issues I’ve struggled to overcome, is more than a job to me.
It’s my civic duty. My spiritual obligation. The holy grail of my entire life. Does it pay well? Sometimes. Is it worth it anyway?
Absolutely.
What continues to amaze me the most though is how much I have grown, both personally and professionally, as a result of it all, which I least expected. It’s been the most excellent way for me to understand the aspects of myself that were too dysfunctional to function, at least in the way I wanted to, so that I’m able to achieve everything I intend on achieving in life.
I find that the most fascinating aspect of it all. There’ve been so many layers, I had no way of knowing any of what lay ahead, but the biggest change is realizing that what used to motivate me to action, i.e. feelings of fear, worry, doubt, anxiety, or anger, don’t affect me like they used, and it no longer feels normal to me to react from a place of chaos and stress but rather peace and calm.
I never would’ve imagined I’d come this far, despite the challenges I’ve endured, and continue to face, every day.
The world as you know it is changing, and my story is only one of many who’ve experienced firsthand the enlightenment that’s now available to anyone for the taking. I could’ve resisted it and crawled under a rock, whining about how hard it is, how I’m not cut out for it, and how I wish I could just go back to my comfy office job and get a bimonthly paycheck, refusing to force myself to forge ahead and press on no matter how hard it gets.
And let everyone who said it say there were right…
But to me, it’s not enough. It’s too boring, it doesn’t engage me, nor does it demand from me all I have to contribute to this world, that which this world is dying for me to share. I’d be less of a role model, and simply a statistic that threw in the towel when the going got tough.
Everyone has a dream, founded on a deep desire to be more, do more, and live more, and that dream is there for a reason. Not to tease you or tempt you, but to fulfill you, thereby helping you contribute to humanity too.
I get what it’s like to be too afraid to go for it, and instead, waste away at a station in life that suppresses your true talents and abilities, making you feel depressed, lonely and isolated, worried about what others will think of you if you try.
But if not you, who? And if not now, when?
I am an Emotional Eating Coach and Digestive Health Specialist, and I fought for the right to say it. It cost me my life savings and more, and I’m still not out of the trenches of what it’s required of me to build my business. Honestly, sometimes I wonder if I ever will be.
I’m just like you. Someone who gets scared, who isn’t always sure of what to do next, or can’t see my way out of my circumstances, and who gets lonely too, because it feels like no one gets me.
The difference is, I went for it, and I keep going for it. I follow my intuition which tells me what to do every step of the way, including writing this blog post.
So much of my coaching is about so much more than eating. It’s about emotional development, emotional management, and emotional intelligence, and how it impacts every part of your life, from your interpersonal relationships to your relationships at work, how you interact with your spouse, your body, your spiritual connection, when you eat, why you eat, and your weight.
There is no part of you that your emotions don’t effect, right down to your ability to confidently pursue your life’s purpose and passion. Take it from someone who’s been there. It’s undoubtedly the most difficult and life-changing experience you’ll ever experience, and yet equally as fulfilling.
I’m here to support you, encourage you, enliven you, and inspire you to stop using weight, money or time as a barrier to being more. To being you. To being everything you’re meant to be, the person you’re afraid to be, that the world’s dying to see.
You’re meant to be so much more. You’re meant to be you. Fearlessly.
It'd be my pleasure to help you.
Angela Minelli is an Emotional Eating Coach and Digestive Health Expert, author, speaker and founder of Angela Minelli International, a heart-based global business serving purpose-driven women entrepreneurs whose self-image and weight issues are inhibiting their confidence and blocking them from pursuing their life’s passion.
Angela's joy is in taking a stand for women who are living less than ideal lives, stopped by unnecessary fears that prevent them from stepping into their power and delivering their God-given genius to the world. As such, her coaching programs and products are designed for women with complex lifestyles yet allow for powerful transformation to take place within a small segment of time.
As a natural health practitioner, Angela specializes in helping men and women naturally balance hormones, overcome emotional eating issues, stop sugar cravings, reverse adrenal fatigue, Candida, and optimize digestion through holistic, non-invasive protocols.