Yesterday I decided to stop pretending.
Yesterday I decided to ‘come out’ – can I even use that term if I’m not gay? Can ‘coming out’ apply to being ‘seen’?
Yesterday I quaked a little bit, you know the human part that worries that people will think you’re weird and you’ll end up alone, wandering back alleys with nothing but stray cats following you, their bent tails resembling the off-ness of you, eating samosas out of a bag, muttering poetry with every step, and wearing nostalgic too old sneakers and smelling like patchouli…? That part. I quaked about the possibility of all of that happening, and then I decided to risk it. But then, I kinda like the smell of patchouli.
- Yesterday I didn’t stop until the message stopped me.
- Yesterday I decided I’m going to be seen.
- Yesterday I said I am. I do. I share.
- Welcome to my page: Work with TinaO
Here it is:
I’m committed to helping you to LIVE.
That’s a pretty broad statement isn’t it? Yes, I think so too. Yet that’s what I’m here for, and that unique message was delivered straight to me via me through my very own Dear Tina journal…
My Dear Tina personal practice began on March 13th 2014, and through these very pages, my own calling to help others truly live is what showed up. And who am I to argue with myself? Because that would be kinda silly don’t you think?
What am I talking about?
Life.
Living.
You know, this ride we’re on for however long we’re invited to be here (which none of us knows how long that will be even though we talk a big talk and stay up at night thinking about or avoiding it).
It’s this thing called LIFE, and it’s super distracting (oh the schedules, appointments, paperwork, pings, dings, deadlines), often ridiculous (the fights, flights, climbs, and confrontations), kind of depressing (broken dreams, resentments, shattered hearts, deaths and disappointments), is also wildly thrilling (think: love, laughter, accolades and ambition), is fantastically possible (with our bucket lists, breakthroughs and aha moments), and is ultimately, an intoxicating ride (hate it, love it, forget about it, and want it…) called LIFE.
My work is to help you LIVE FULLY without having to:
- FIGURE IT OUT or
- ESCAPE from what you don’t understand.
- Live only in the ‘meditative or spirit world’
- or be an EXPERT.
- or be a LEADER.
- or become ORGANIZED.
- or know how to PRIORITIZE.
- and for freak sakes… to once and for all FINALLY GIVE UP the painful practice of NEEDING TO BE ON TOP OF IT ALL.
Gawwwwd aren’t you exhausted of being on top of it all???
I sure was. It gave me cancer. And that’s how I came to be here with you.
Dear Tina…
…teach others to listen, what to listen to, how to navigate the voices. Dec. 26th 2014
…You will create a process for people to follow that encourages self listening. December 26th 2014
…Show others the way through the mess of busyness. It is not necessary. Lead Tina. Lead. August 2015
…Disease is transformation Tina, and you have transformed. Do not shrink back. August 29th 2015
…You have been asked to help others connect to the whole self. You’ve been asked to help people reacquaint themselves. December 1st 2015
So there it is.
And that is how I will work with you. You will learn how to listen to your innate wisdom and together we’ll build a way of LIVING that is truly yours.
I call it Your Living Story, or #liveyourall
I showed it to my husband because he has the best ‘total-bull-shit-sniff-test’ out there.
and I passed his ‘sniff’.
I’ll never forget the day I shook in my boots across our kitchen island, over the toast and butter and apples and and and… clutching my Sunday morning coffee, crazy weekend hair flying and sheepishly looked up and said to him: “I think I want to write a book, speak, and run workshops and stuff. I can’t stand the expert industry, but I think I might be one. I don’t want to lose you. Will you still like me?”
He said: Tina, that train, your train has already left the station, you just haven’t decided to get on yet. I know you. This is who you are. It’s who you’ve always been.
That was almost four years ago now.
Welcome to TinaOLife,
- to Dear Tina,
- to Tall Poppy Living,
- to Tall Poppy Living for Network Marketers and
- to Live Your Best Story.
These are my offerings.
xxT
p.s. if you are a cancer survivor or have loved ones you’d like to honour, check out my #100love campaign. I swim, bike and run for them.
TinaO is a writer, speaker and the founder of TinaOLife – a hub for all things worth living for, the workshop Live Your Best Story, and her coaching practice: Tall Poppy Living. She’s also a professional network marketer with a decade in the industry and with her Tall Poppy Living for Network Marketers Coaching Program, she teaches: selling isn’t slimey and marketing isn’t make-believe. You can be yourself and be successful in Direct Sales.