Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Erika Renteria. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Hi Erika, thanks for joining us today. Let’s start with the story of your mission. What should we know?

I was an ambitious and adventurous woman. With many visions, dreams, and journals, I had a wardrobe full of beautiful things, but nothing great, and the depth of who I am I wasn’t happy I couldn’t figure out why on my camera roll of life and it looked great. I had a professional job where I achieve many goals. My social media account was full of pictures ,adventures ,family . friends would say Man you have it all oh, but only if they knew the truth, I had a crippling, low self-esteem, but yet looked so confident ? I used my job , my kids (grandkids) were my everything and I used my marriage as an excuse for years. If your looked, at my life it looked like every o women’s dream. but I WAS SO out of balance . I then choose to face my reality and put the work inand started a new career path as a life coach . Graduated in March 2018 and fell in complete live with myself and started to heal relationships with my kids letting go of things I could no longer accept and control of needing to be right ! So then I didn’t know i was going to write my own curriculums for parents and teens , write a book , working on another and literally give back to the world …. Until I joined a church group and that’s when my Blessing overflow of healing took place . My reality be came real life coaching without knowing and my calling became my reality and I moved with it and love every step Of my journey helping women , men and preteen. We concentrate and work on real life, situations . balance ,real life struggles, and my goals is to help everyone achieve complete happiness. It will start with embracing your own uniqueness respecting yourself and creating a sense of balance as you thrive. I can help you enjoy all that you deserve

Erika, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

Deep down, I wasn’t happy, and I couldn’t figure out why ? My non-reality , my balance. My acceptance was all off , my non-reality. My problem is how I felt about myself. The things I wanted didn’t bring me happiness because underneath all the layers of success, I only found pain , (Realization)- realizing that my reality was off . Realizing that changed me completely Acceptance -I finally excepted, who I was, and made peace with myself, my body and health I promise myself moving forward things would be different for real.
Living- This time Living I started to live my truth in life, rather than be in a Hollywood state of reality
Gratitude- giving back with gratitude, I vowed to myself that I would pay it forward. I would help other women men , parents and preteens. By explaining my reality truth life reality experiences raw truth and let them know they are not alone and can do the same as I did heal .
Passion- I have a passion for preteens. I was an out of control teen and the peer pressures in the late 70s and 80s was nothing compared to the challenges that are new, the upcoming preteen generation deal with because of that realization within my own family I have developed a passion for understanding this age group I have developed tools to help your preteen, set boundaries have ownership for their actions which will create acceptance a positive attitude and creativity .

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

I realize that I did not want other women and preteens to reach the place of where they wallow in themselves. As much as I had I decided that I wanted to help them start living and to stop hiding I have armed myself with the tools and and skills to make that happen, I train as a consultant coach equaling coachsultant and study cognitive behavior, nutrition, boundaries, and forgiveness to name a few. I have learned and embraced, my life application, tools, which allowed me to launch my own signature program. I am now working with women , men and preteens online in person and in group settings, helping them to discover their own strength and beauty to start to love themselves in their own skin. As a result, they will thrive in their life and where they want to go.

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

I appear to have the life most most women wanted, but despite external signs of success, I was battling stress, sickness and low self-esteem, my mood, and with whether it was a good day or a bad day was so often determined by outside influences for example, what I watched what I was listening to others negativity I had no sense of reality. I can’t compare myself to others. I never felt I measured up this was professionally and personally I worried about everything I said, did I didn’t do I was exhausted all the time and full of body pain. It took a lot of soul-searching a couple of getaway trips, a truckload of self discovery, and then eventually, I realize my problem was mine deep within it was nothing more . I want everyone to know that they are enough and always have then it took me 47 years for me to make peace with my body, mind and soul, I put my want to before my how to doing this I had to make some very hard choices which allowed me to prioritize my own south care . It took wisdom I learned that saying yes to myself, didn’t mean I was selfish. It meant that I establish healthy boundaries it was time to move. Don’t take as long as I did because it’s the stakes are high when life‘s time clock is ticking I want everyone to know you are enough that you are strong and you are loved, and you are worthy not to waste any more time to heal, and to move forward that there’s a hero of their own story.

Contact Info:

• Website: Comehowyouare.com
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