Our Past Doesn't Define Us - with Amanda Acker

In this episode of My Dead Dragon, Katherine is joined by guest Amanda Acker. Hear Amanda’s powerful story about homelessness and drug abuse, to then breaking through and has been able to let the good things into her life. She is striving to become an inspiration and let people know that they are stronger than they think. Trigger warning regarding the mention of suicide.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• In the moments Amanda made the wrong choices, she was thinking about the wants and needs of others. Will this person stop talking to me? Will something bad happen if I don’t do this? She was surrounded by people who didn’t have her best interests in mind.
• It took hitting her lowest point before Amanda ever asked what she wanted. She went to her husband and asked him to make her see herself the way he saw her. Her self-acceptance was so low she wouldn’t allow herself to love herself. It’s a constant process of affirmation and visualization that she can have the life she wants.
• The only difference between fear and excitement is how we breathe. With fear we shallow breathe but with excitement we deep breathe. The sensations in our brain are the same.
• Being able to be yourself is such a relief. The ability to accept the things about yourself that once caused anxiety is freeing. Amanda is no longer reluctant to tell her story because she accepts who she is and knows it doesn’t define her.

BEST MOMENTS

‘I had other wake up calls throughout my story, but this one stuck.’

‘Sometimes it takes that rock bottom where everything is on the line.’

‘How can you say you value second chances when you’ve never given yourself a second chance.’

‘The people who truly love me will be there no matter what version of me I am.’

EPISODE RESOURCES

facebook.com/amanda.acker2017/

instagram.com/theletgoodthingsinshow/

Amanda@amandaacker.com

Join Amanda’s Facebook group here: facebook.com/groups/theletgoodthingsinshow

Find her podcast “The Let Good Things in Show” on your regular channels.

ABOUT THE GUEST

Coming from a past of drug abuse, homelessness, and being a convicted felon, Amanda has broken through and was able to let the good things into her life. Amanda is now on a mission to inspire and motivate people just like you. People who have had a difficult past and haven’t yet realized that they are stronger than they think and can have the life they want and deserve. Amanda wants to help you rise above the labels of society and burst through the ceilings that you have put on top of yourself. Amanda’s core message is that our past doesn't define us and that we are way stronger than we think.

VALUABLE RESOURCES

katalystcoaching.com 

facebook.com/katherinelorangerkatalystcoaching

instagram.com/katalyst_coaching/  

linkedin.com/in/katherinewaller/

ABOUT THE HOST

Transformational Life Coach and founder of Katalyst Coaching, Katherine Loranger asserts to the bold and determined that life is theirs for the taking.

For over 25 years, Katherine has been driven to spark lasting, heartfelt transformation for fearless and fierce souls in progress… working to research, study and implement results-oriented principles and programs to incredible success. Through her evocative and expertly guided series of vision building and life mastery classes and workshops, heart-centred entrepreneurs, organizational leaders, and dreamers learn to realign their efforts and energies with their soul’s purpose to design, build and realize their wildest fantasies… igniting a world of limitless possibilities and changing the trajectory of their lives, their businesses, and their relationships for the better.

PODCAST DESCRIPTION

Are you looking to learn how to:

• love yourself?
• increase your sense of self-worth? 
• discover your purpose in life?
• create authentic success and abundance in all areas of your life? 

Would you love to hear inspiring stories from women like you who did just that?  

The My Dead Dragon podcast brings you conversations and coaching with women who woke up one day and realised that no one or nothing was riding in to save them so they become the heroine of their own life and the main character of their story.  

Get ready to feel inspired, hopeful, motivated and ready to take charge of your own life. 

Discover what to do with your dead dragon as transformational life coach for souls in progress, Katherine Loranger interviews women in all stages of the journey to find out how we can all create and live a life we love!

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