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Who Am I?
Hello, My name is Audrey Marlene but my friends call me Marlene. I am a professional Life Coach, empowering adults, parents, teens and children in unique ways to achieve more positive results in all areas their lives. My philosophy as a life coach is that when an individual reaches personal balance and personal fulfillment, success in all other areas naturally follows I have coached individuals for many years and more recently within my private practice. My experience comes from my study of the human body at a cellular level and my degree in molecular biology. My research of the human mind and a master’s degree in psychology has given me an added dimension into understanding human behavior. My study of mental disorders earned me an award for proposing a new path in the search for the treatment of bipolar disorder (manic depression). I am a BCIA-EEG certified neurofeedback practitioner, which offers me additional, helpful tools and options for assisting my clients. I have combined all my professional experiences in psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and biological science but mostly from my own personal experiences, failures and successes, to life coach others, motivating people to achieve the wonderful life they deserve. I am originally from a small island in the British West Indies called St. Vincent & the Grenadines. I am a mother, wife, daughter, friend, citizen of the world, and a life coach. I lived and studied in the United States. I have also lived in The Netherlands and El Salvador. I have been blessed with the chance to work with people from diverse walks of life, working on coaching the impoverished and rebuilding a health clinic in a small village of El Salvador, to working with top executives. I have done consulting for organizations such as UNICEF and CARE while living abroad.
Besides my academic and career successes, above all, my personal setbacks and triumphs have given me the hands-on knowledge and expertise for life coaching. I have endured tremendous emotional trauma in my life taking me down a path of bad decisions and troubled relationships. I lived with depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem for many years to follow. My toxic emotions transferred to my physical body resulting in a diagnosis of lupus, an illness I still battle but keep under control through enormous self discipline. At one point I even suffered a massive hemorrhagic stroke that nearly ended my life, underwent brain surgery, beat the odds, and survived. The good news is I have struggled on my own and with some help from a few key people to overcome the obstacles I have encountered with much success. Along the way, I have gained tremendous insight into what drives us as human beings and the indomitable spirit we all possess. I use these powerful lessons and the insightful wisdom learned to inspire, motivate and guide others to unleashing their potential. Throughout life we have a tendency to value the advice of people who have faced adversity and triumphed. Those are life’s most valuable lessons because they inspire and motivate us. We read them from the Bible or books about events in history, lessons of people from the past. When we see a movie based on a real life story, it moves us more than one based on just fiction. So it is when receiving guidance. It is much easier to accept the advice of someone who has faced adversity, dealt with it and conquered than someone who has not. Someone once said, "experience is life's best teacher." I consider all my life’s experiences, including hurt, suffering, failure, as well as my successes, as my character education. According to Kahlil Gibran “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars." I have discovered my purpose, my passion for life. My greatest joy and fulfillment comes from motivating others to make positive changes in their lives and to achieve their goals and desires. It gives me great delight to be a life coach to offer a fresh approach to helping others to realize their true potential. For Questions or Comments, Click Smiley
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