Subject: The awards night and the one where I tell Terry Wahls she was my angel

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The awards night and telling Terry Wahls she was my angel.
Hi Friend

Have you ever been nominated for an award? If you have, then you know what an amazing feeling it can be. Late last year I received a very surprising email, congratulating me and telling me that I had been nominated for a Shine award for coaching by my coaching academy. 

I was shocked, surprised and very excited because while it's great to get so much appreciation from my clients, its so amazing to be publicly recognised for the work you do, especially when you did not expect it.

The awards night was held in a very swanky hotel on March 15th so I got all glammed up, had my hair curled and went along with my best friend beside me and had a lovely night, drank a few glasses of bubbly and enjoyed the night whilst dealing with meal issue because eating with food intolerances is a minefield and you have to be constantly vigilant. 

While I didn't win and trust me, I SO wanted to, it was such a great experience and another big step out into the world for me as well. We stayed at the hotel that night so I got little sleep, but I had planned ahead and built in lots of rest time afterwards so that I would be good to go again on Monday. 

I got so much support from everyone on my facebook page and if you were a part of that, thank you so much again. 


Episode 9 of the Emotional Autoimmunity podcast: Dr Terry Wahls, our choices define who we are.

It took so much courage for me to ask Dr Wahls to be a guest on my podcast because as you will hear, she was literally my angel who came along at the time when I needed someone to give me something I could do to help myself heal. 

I was physically and cognitively disabled, no idea if I would survive or be able to work again and my internet search led me to Terry's "Minding my mitochondria" TED talk where she told how she had reversed her MS and went from a tilt reclined wheelchair to back riding her bike.

When she agreed to be my guest, I had to do so much emotional work to not turn into a blubbering mess and get beyond my fears at getting to speak with one of my personal hero's and what Terry had to share was truly wonderful. 

Have a listen here on the blog or subscribe on iTunes/Apple podcasts, find it on Spotify or ask Alexa to play it for you.


As I don't have enough reviews yet for iTunes to notice my podcast, I would so appreciate if you could leave a review and help my podcast be seen and found by more people who need it.
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What Marlies thought about her program.

"I realised I wasn’t my normal self. I felt insecure, small and the fear of when a flare would come back and how I would have to deal with it was hanging as a heavy dark cloud above my head. I was feeling very lonely after the experience and realisation that no-one, not even my (ex) partner understood my illness. Since I grew up with the disease I assumed family members understood it all very well. I came to realise (after 21 years!) they will never.

When I saw/read the website and read the e-book I found much recognition. While reading, I also felt a honest and sincere empathy which I realised I needed from someone who knows how it is to live with chronic illness.

Before the first session I felt somewhat nervous. Though beforehand I told myself to let it all go and just listen since I normally like to ‘control’ things. That helped. Since I obviously don’t’ have much experience with therapy it was slightly uncomfortable that it was all about me since the 1st minute. It is very logical in a way but it also seemed a bit against the nature of my conversations. Probably because I normally don’t have therapeutic conversations with someone.

I felt already a lot calmer after the first session. Maybe also because I realised I didn’t have to give all my energy in explaining it all to someone who understands what a burden chronic illness can be. The information and spot on explanation about how my mind works made me very curious about what was coming in next sessions.

My confidence in myself slowly came back during the sessions. The biggest change is that I feel as if I came back to being my old normal self. I am relaxed, much more confident, worry less and care much less about what others think. I think more positive and get less affected by other people’s negative talk. I can dance in the rain again!

I came to realise over the sessions that there were quite a few issues to cover. I am very happy you have helped me all this much!

The comfort of talking to someone who knows, who understands was a completely new experience for me which helped me a lot. The amount of weight that could get off my shoulders I did not expect.

At the stage where I was (before the sessions) I think I was searching for understanding and recognition from people close to me. I wasn’t getting the type of understanding or recognition I was looking for. I now understand why.

I got from you an active listening ear, empathy, explanation and direct action which I really liked. I worked with a therapist once before in which I vaguely remember I had to look in the weeks ahead for how things would develop over time. And the most important things he said were only said in 5 minutes of the whole hour.

With your direct action and explanation as to why you do what you do in the session I can reflect myself after the session, I started to write things down right after and automatically I thought about all this the days after the session. Even if I wanted to or not. I could note myself I was thinking about things we talked about or what it did to me almost every day until the session came along.

And the whole hour you said important things and things that just made sense and were very interesting to listen to. It was not just 5 minutes of valuable information. Sometimes I wish I could listen back to it. Thank you Kerry. Marlies"

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