Our Story
Merrill’s Life Transformation Coaching is equipped and yearning to restore peoples’ hurt and damaged souls through helping them understand the life journey they have been through, and how to use the lessons learned along the way to restore their former self.
Blessings Despite Struggles
Merrill’s life is one of immense blessings, but also struggles along the way. Like everyone, life doesn’t always take us along a clear, happy, easy path. The road is filled with obstacles that seem to do their utmost to stop us reaching our objectives.
With few life skills, low self-confidence and self-esteem, and having led a very protected childhood and teen years, Merrill found herself not managing to detour past the tough stumbling blocks before her. This led to her finding herself lonely, vulnerable, and turning to food for comfort, resulting in a very lengthy battle with bulimia. This ended her professional ballet career and brought intense guilt due to the devastating effect it had on her closest supporter.
It also greatly impacted on her ability to make rational life choices, some of which ended up with dire consequences, impacting not only hers, but that of many people close to her, adding to the extreme guilt she already carried.
Lack of Purpose
Through the coming years she found herself victim to many abusive relationships, whether intimate relationships, managers or colleagues in the workplace. These interactions and experiences left her living on a purely existential basis. Her two sons were her one and only purpose in life. With her focus on providing for them, she manoeuvred and stumbled her way through the maze of life for over twenty years.
Broken
Consistently trying to prove herself worthy to others, she pushed herself harder and harder, never finding satisfaction in any task she performed, even when excelling, because there was no recognition from others or herself. Being on a dark emotional roller-coaster, seeking approval and some sense of worth, she consistently found herself on the receiving end of abusive behaviour. Her coping mechanism was to isolate herself from the world as much as she could, going to work, coming home, sleeping for a few hours, going to work…the treadmill just got faster and faster…….on the road to nowhere else, but destruction.
Re-Awakening
Fortunately, a home renovation for her elder son’s visit from overseas, led to a two-week recess from work, where she discovered a whole world out there.
Very shortly thereafter, she resigned from her position and started her journey as a business owner and entrepreneur. Later that year she signed up for a life coaching certification, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Coaching in an exciting world
Enough about the past – coaching is all about the future!
Merrill’s Life Transformation Coaching is helping to change peoples’ lives and so the ripple effect has begun. There is nothing more fulfilling than seeing someone you’ve coached, change their lives, and move strongly forward to a bright new future, current company included!
To my wonderful sons and their beautiful partners and families, I thank you for your support, your love and your fortitude in helping me get through the rough, tough days. We move forward in this new journey together.
