How did I come to love my life...
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A Short Bio....
Melissa Bradley is known as being magical and she helps people from all over the world end the pain of the past by shifting their vibration from fear to love -- opening up to fresh new possibilities for their life with work, divine partnership, health, wealth, lifestyle and much more! She is a powerful life coach, speaker and transformational leader and teacher whose passion and mission is seeing women reach their highest, happiest and healthiest potential by being/expressing their True Nature and sharing their special gifts with humanity living peacefully, playfully and prosperously….in Heaven while on Earth!! Her credentials include lots of life experience :) and Life Transformed Coaching™ Certification with Rikka Zimmerman, Reiki Master Teacher, Kundalinia Yoga Certification, Angel Card reader with Doreen Virtue. |
short story that led me to this moment of being here with YOU...
A dear friend asked me over the phone one day...how are you? I said yes Alex, I am fine. She said really Meliss, how are you, I said I am fine. And then she asked the third time and I fell to the ground and started crying.
I was not fine. I had abandoned myself and I was lost and scared and lonely and so confused.
This was 10 years ago. Today I am living the magical life of my dreams on Maui with my love Marc, doing what makes my heart and soul sing and feeling rich and abundant in peace, love and joy.
But I certainly could not see that for myself all those years ago.
Do you know what it's like to be on an insane roller coaster ride and feeling totally out of control where you can't see where you're going and there is something haunting you around every twist and turn?
I began drinking heavy at 16 to escape as an insecure teenager. My binge drinking and blacking-out lasted for 25 years. It was a habit, a pattern that I didn't even know was there until I knew something needed to change and it was me. I stopped the cycle 7 years ago on my own and for that I am eternally grateful. It was like a fog lifted and now I wake up everyday in gratitude for feeling ahhhmazing!
By the time Alex asked me how I was doing I was on my last leg of drinking and my marriage was on the rocks. I had been having a two year affair that my husband encouraged because we had been physically growing apart for years and he "wanted me to be happy." I thought that all I wanted was to be wanted but all it did was result in more pain and more confusion.
Thank God a dear friend of mine understood as she had gone through a similar experience and one day she asked me a question that changed everything for me, "so Meliss, how much more time are you going to do?" ~ she meant having a husband and a wild and crazy boyfriend....I screamed out instantly, "NONE, NO MORE" I was 41 and it was the clearest I had been since I was a young child.
The insanity wasn't quite over though as I still wanted someone to love me (since I couldn't do it for myself at that time). A month after my marriage ended I woke up intoxicated in a man's bed which turned into a very painful 9 month relationship that finally had me saying, THERE MUST BE ANOTHER WAY TO LIVE LIFE!!!
So I up and left Arizona to "get away" from the craziness but of course what I was really looking for was me and to feel loved.
There I was moving into an apartment and living by myself for the first time in my life at 42. How did this happen? I couldn't figure it out. I was incredibly scared and wondering when the discomfort and lonliness would end. I spent the whole first year living in Laguna watching Eat, Pray, Love every Friday night trying to stay sober and praying for clues as to what was next.
Eventually, I discovered Kundanili yoga and became obsessed with how blissed out and high I felt practicing it. And the people I was meeting inspired me to new levels of what was possible. I was really starting to feel free.
What I haven't mentioned is somehow, even in all of the heavy drinking, I managed to run a 6-figure public relations and marketing business. I was always grateful that I could live comfortably and take care of myself on the income and I loved my clients and yet deep down I knew there was something else waiting for me.
As scary as it felt to let go of the money...I knew I had to. I knew that I had to find myself and the happy life I wanted to be living.
So I left everything behind and packed a couple suitcases and moved to Maui. It felt like a huge leap of faith and it was so exciting and filled with so many unknowns!!!
I spent the first whole year immersing myself in nature, breathing, meditating...stripping away and unraveling all of the old programming and conditioning and stories of the past. I felt lighter and clearer and more of my True, Joy-filled Self every day.
And then, a wonderful man I had met while living in California called and my heart started racing. He soon came over for a visit from New York and then a few weeks after that he called me and said all I want is to be with you...can I come? I said yes.
So this is how I got to live my magical life which amazes me everyday...living where I love in paradise with My love and doing what I love…helping women SAY YES to really living life...a life beyond what they ever imagined possible through rediscovering their True Self and True Nature...ahhhhhhhhh!
And now it's my greatest joy and gift to share is what is possible with others through my life experiences, the love and compassion I hold in my heart, and incorporating the most powerful transformational techniques I’ve ever experienced including Life Transformed™ coaching sessions (created by Rikka Zimmerman), Kundalini yoga breathwork and reiki energy to speed up the healing.
No matter where you are on your journey…how do you see it playing out? YOU are the writer, actor, director and producer of your life and you can BE, DO, HAVE anything and everything your heart and soul desires!!! All you have to be willing to do is say YES 2 YOU!!!
A dear friend asked me over the phone one day...how are you? I said yes Alex, I am fine. She said really Meliss, how are you, I said I am fine. And then she asked the third time and I fell to the ground and started crying.
I was not fine. I had abandoned myself and I was lost and scared and lonely and so confused.
This was 10 years ago. Today I am living the magical life of my dreams on Maui with my love Marc, doing what makes my heart and soul sing and feeling rich and abundant in peace, love and joy.
But I certainly could not see that for myself all those years ago.
Do you know what it's like to be on an insane roller coaster ride and feeling totally out of control where you can't see where you're going and there is something haunting you around every twist and turn?
I began drinking heavy at 16 to escape as an insecure teenager. My binge drinking and blacking-out lasted for 25 years. It was a habit, a pattern that I didn't even know was there until I knew something needed to change and it was me. I stopped the cycle 7 years ago on my own and for that I am eternally grateful. It was like a fog lifted and now I wake up everyday in gratitude for feeling ahhhmazing!
By the time Alex asked me how I was doing I was on my last leg of drinking and my marriage was on the rocks. I had been having a two year affair that my husband encouraged because we had been physically growing apart for years and he "wanted me to be happy." I thought that all I wanted was to be wanted but all it did was result in more pain and more confusion.
Thank God a dear friend of mine understood as she had gone through a similar experience and one day she asked me a question that changed everything for me, "so Meliss, how much more time are you going to do?" ~ she meant having a husband and a wild and crazy boyfriend....I screamed out instantly, "NONE, NO MORE" I was 41 and it was the clearest I had been since I was a young child.
The insanity wasn't quite over though as I still wanted someone to love me (since I couldn't do it for myself at that time). A month after my marriage ended I woke up intoxicated in a man's bed which turned into a very painful 9 month relationship that finally had me saying, THERE MUST BE ANOTHER WAY TO LIVE LIFE!!!
So I up and left Arizona to "get away" from the craziness but of course what I was really looking for was me and to feel loved.
There I was moving into an apartment and living by myself for the first time in my life at 42. How did this happen? I couldn't figure it out. I was incredibly scared and wondering when the discomfort and lonliness would end. I spent the whole first year living in Laguna watching Eat, Pray, Love every Friday night trying to stay sober and praying for clues as to what was next.
Eventually, I discovered Kundanili yoga and became obsessed with how blissed out and high I felt practicing it. And the people I was meeting inspired me to new levels of what was possible. I was really starting to feel free.
What I haven't mentioned is somehow, even in all of the heavy drinking, I managed to run a 6-figure public relations and marketing business. I was always grateful that I could live comfortably and take care of myself on the income and I loved my clients and yet deep down I knew there was something else waiting for me.
As scary as it felt to let go of the money...I knew I had to. I knew that I had to find myself and the happy life I wanted to be living.
So I left everything behind and packed a couple suitcases and moved to Maui. It felt like a huge leap of faith and it was so exciting and filled with so many unknowns!!!
I spent the first whole year immersing myself in nature, breathing, meditating...stripping away and unraveling all of the old programming and conditioning and stories of the past. I felt lighter and clearer and more of my True, Joy-filled Self every day.
And then, a wonderful man I had met while living in California called and my heart started racing. He soon came over for a visit from New York and then a few weeks after that he called me and said all I want is to be with you...can I come? I said yes.
So this is how I got to live my magical life which amazes me everyday...living where I love in paradise with My love and doing what I love…helping women SAY YES to really living life...a life beyond what they ever imagined possible through rediscovering their True Self and True Nature...ahhhhhhhhh!
And now it's my greatest joy and gift to share is what is possible with others through my life experiences, the love and compassion I hold in my heart, and incorporating the most powerful transformational techniques I’ve ever experienced including Life Transformed™ coaching sessions (created by Rikka Zimmerman), Kundalini yoga breathwork and reiki energy to speed up the healing.
No matter where you are on your journey…how do you see it playing out? YOU are the writer, actor, director and producer of your life and you can BE, DO, HAVE anything and everything your heart and soul desires!!! All you have to be willing to do is say YES 2 YOU!!!
