An ADDiva lurked inside for years …

Even as a little girl, I lived in Passionate Possibility. I mean, who can resist the lure of an office supply store, full of potential? All that paper, all those crayons. It was exhilarating! And when I got home with my new supplies, it was a thrill to create something that was uniquely ME.

As I grew up, I took a detour. I twisted myself into a pretzel to make other people happy (aka codependency, et al). Finally I realized that taking care of myself is the deepest form of honoring the sacred intention that is part of being alive: to BE a human being.

I discovered that being exactly who I am, remembering that I am a spiritual being having that proverbial human experience, is the way I live a life full of grace. And that’s all that matters.

Sure, I have diplomas on the wall, a bunch of awards. For years, I filled up my life with marketing and advertising and reporting and TV and radio and newspaper and development. I owned my own advertising firm for more than a decade. And there were marriage (s), children, pets, civic commitments, meetings, meetings and more meetings.

Yet it’s only been in the last few years, when I retrained as a retreat facilitator through the Conversations with God Foundation, as a spiritual life coach with Coach for LIfe and as a facilitator of  Speaking Circles, that I fully came into myself.

Now I love helping move people into that same space of vitality and energy. Everyone finds it at a different level, like a tuning fork seeking its true resonance.

What did Linda do with her time before she became a coach?
Let me list the careers:

Radio copywriter, Jacksonville, IL
TV reporter and anchor, Louisville, KY
Radio reporter, radio account executive, Canton, OH
Newspaper reporter, film critic, Durham, NC
Grants & Partnership Director, public schools, Durham, NC
Ad agency founder and president, Durham, NC
Author, Durham, Doorway to Discovery

All that media experience translated to one heck of a marketing firm. We had a great time for a dozen years, but then it was time for a change: soul work!

What’s Linda famous for?

Her organic veggie garden; sour cream peach pie; buying a hot air balloon without knowing how to fly it (and with a serious fear of heights!); attracting lots of hummingbird families to her yard; homemade dog food for her Shelties; Sacred Laughter during coaching; writing wonderful essays; enthusiasm; hugs, hugs, hugs, hugs, hugs! And a couple more hugs! And of course, passion and possibility!

Linda’s Credentials

• Associate Certified Life Coach (Coach for Life graduate)
• Certified facilitator, Speaking Circles, Int’l.
• Graduate, FasTrak Leadership Program, Conversations with God Foundation
• ADHD coaching training, Linda Anderson, CHADD, ADDA
• Co-founder, Unitarian Universalist Coaching Network

Professional Affiliations

• Int’l. Coach Federation (ICF)
• CHADD (Children & Adults with ADD)
• ADDA (Adults with ADD)
• ACO Charter Member (ADD Coaches Organization)
  
• CwG Coaching Cooperative
• NCGI-ADD (National Center for Gender Issues for ADD)
• Speaking Circles Facilitators Association

Check the "Rogg Blogg " for more about Linda!

 

"Never a dull moment." That’s what they’ll write on my tombstone, when I leave this plane and transition to the next. Why be bored? Or boring? Makes no sense to me when life is so full of interesting, exotic and exhilarating experiences. I’ve written a book, been scuba diving, flown an airplane, eaten way too much frozen custard on occasion, reveled in the smell of newly mown grass, lost a beloved pet, sweated on the elliptical, listened to my own coaching sessions without cringing, went through labor a second time, learned to say "I love you" to my dad, visited the ruins of ancient Rome, lightly brushed treetops in a hot air balloon, loved and lost and loved again, was on-camera for a story about a truckload of honey bees that overturned en route to Florida, taken the GMAT and LSAT and GRE but never went to grad school, been thin then chubby then thin, looked high and low for the Real Me and finally found her right here all the time. Now you know all about ME. Tell me about YOU. Leave comments on this blog by clicking the "comments" link. Or not. I’ll still love you even if you just lurk, read and leave. Oh, I forgot to mention: I give a LOT of hugs. Ask anyone.