Making a Change When You Don’t Know What’s Next

I have some big news to share.

After a lot of thought, deliberation, and soul searching, I’ve decided to move my business away from coaching people with T1D and focus on general life coaching. And to explain why this feels like such a big deal, I have to go back about seven years…

In 2019, I was drinking way too much, working in a corporate job I hated, and pretty miserable.

I spent a lot of time thinking life wasn’t fair. I felt like everything happened to me, and I didn’t realize how much power I had to create my own happiness.

Then I started working with a life coach.

For the first time, I started understanding how much my thoughts were shaping the way I experienced my life. I learned how to question thoughts I’d believed for years, especially about T1D, look at situations from a different perspective, and make intentional choices instead of just reacting to whatever life threw at me.

And slowly, my life started to change.

I left my 20-year corporate career, I gave up alcohol, and eventually, I decided I wanted to help other people make changes in their lives too, so I became a life coach myself.

But there was one thing I didn’t realize at the time. I believed I wasn’t allowed to take up too much space.

Somewhere underneath it all, I don’t think I believed I could just say, I’m a life coach. I needed a specialty, and a reason I belonged. I needed something that made me feel qualified to take up that space.

Since I’d been living with Type 1 Diabetes almost my entire life, I had a pretty obvious one, so I built my coaching business around helping other people with T1D (which is a great reason!).

And there were so many wonderful things about that decision. I have absolutely loved working with my clients and helping people navigate something that means so much to me.

But over time, something else started happening. I was living with T1D every day, coaching on it, creating content around it, thinking about it for my business, and volunteering and fundraising in the T1D community.

It became too much diabetes. Eventually, I burned out.

The interesting thing is, this has happened before. I’ve tried several times to move my business away from T1D, but I kept finding myself drifting back.

Because if I wasn’t the T1D life coach…then who was I?

After a lot of self-investigation, I finally got super honest about what I truly wanted, and the answer became clear: I’m a life coach. Full stop. 

And when I finally gave myself permission to do that, I felt incredibly relieved.

Because when I looked at the work I’ve been doing all these years, I realized that even when someone came to me because of T1D, we often talked about relationships, careers, overwhelm, people-pleasing, boundaries, big decisions, confidence, habits, and feeling stuck.

Life.

I’ve also worked with plenty of people who don’t have T1D at all.

So this isn’t as much about becoming something new as it is about finally allowing myself to stop putting such a small box around what I already do.

Going forward, I want to help women who feel stuck and know they want something in their lives to change. Maybe you know exactly what you want to change, but you don’t know how. Maybe you have absolutely no idea what you want; you just know that something isn’t working anymore. Maybe you’re tired of overthinking every decision, living according to everyone else’s needs, or moving through your days on autopilot.

That’s where coaching can help.

We figure out what’s actually keeping you stuck, what you want, and how to start making small, intentional changes that move you toward a life that feels more like yours.

To be clear, if you fit that description and you happen to have T1D, of course I can still coach you! I’m simply no longer focusing my business specifically on T1D.

I think there’s something pretty fitting about announcing this new chapter by telling you about a change I was scared to make in my own life.

You don’t have to have every detail figured out before you make a change. Not knowing what’s next isn’t a reason to stay where you are.

And that feels pretty darn good.