Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Ruthie Lindsey. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.
Ruthie , thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Was there a defining moment in your professional career? A moment that changed the trajectory of your career?
Covid really shook things up for my work, I was supposed to be on a big book tour a few weeks after shut down. Speaking jobs came to a stop and I made the decision to stop working with brands. It was a scary not knowing how I would pay my bills. This all invited me into the next iteration of my work which became 1 on 1 coaching. I don’t believe I would have sought this career out had everything not happened the way it did. People had been asking me to coach for a while and I think I was too scared but everything changed with covid. I needed to figure out what I was going to do for work and how I was going to pay my bills while also doing work that felt aligned for me. I wanted to share the tools and gifts I had, so I started with doing one off coaching with people to see how it would go. I often tell myself “Even though I am scared, I am so brave” I could not feel more grateful for the great honor I have of sitting across from men and women, mirroring their worth, wholeness, goodness and divinity to them. Coaching feels like something I was made to do.
As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?
My name is Ruthie Lindsey. I am a coach, speaker and author of my memoir There I Am: The Journey From Hopelessness To Healing. I like to think of myself of as a midwife to souls. Helping people feel endeared to their own lives, body and soul. I got into this business because life invited me into it. I was very unwell for most of my life because of trauma after trauma. I died in a car accident and lived in my bed for 7 years from complications of surgeries and injuries with debilitating pain (physical, emotional and spiritual). I felt abandoned by life. I hated my life and wanted to die constantly. All of this pain (and so much more) invited me into doing such deep healing work and coming back home to myself and my body. I am learning and will continue to learn how to love on the parts of me that I have hated and shamed. Today I have the great honor of working with and so many beautiful souls, sharing all that I have learned and what has brought me so much deep healing.
What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?
I had to unlearn the story that there was something inherently wrong or bad about me. I was a part of a church that said we were broken depraved wretch’s in need of a God outside of us to make us “right”. The foundation of my remembering and unlearning and now the work I do is helping people (myself first) remember our divinity, our goodness, worthiness and how we are love, simply because we exist. I practice and teach many embodiment practices to bring radical love and compassion to the parts we have hated, shamed and tried to push away. We are good!
How about pivoting – can you share the story of a time you’ve had to pivot?
I believe so many of us had to pivot during covid. I was supposed to go on a huge book tour one month into shutdown with my book that came out april 2020. All speaking engagements were shut down. I also decided to stop working with brands on instagram. All of these doors closing caused me to re imagine my business. I began creating online content. I began doing one on one coaching. I don’t believe I would have gone this route had I not been in some ways forced to think outside of my normal, comfortable box. Innovation happens in those places. I am so grateful for the doors that closed bc it truly created space for me to create something new.
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bio pic is by @sixtysecondbrandstories the rest I have permission to use but dont know who took them