Hi, I’m Yohnnie
Founder of Anything is Possible Coaching
My journey to freedom started with ditching the alcohol, but yours may be something else: food, smoking, toxic relationships, gambling, shopping, social media, self-doubt, self-loathing, etc. Our paths may be different, but the process to freedom is the same.
Don’t wait. Start Now on your path to becoming your best self!
My Story
Hi I’m Yohnnie, I am a certified This Naked Mind (TNM) coach, certified hot yoga instructor, certified running coach and professional figure competitor.
I was raised in a small town in Iowa. My mother’s decent into alcohol addiction went deeper and darker as I proceeded from 4th through 12th grade. Alcohol addiction to me looked chaotic and severe and my drinking was never close to my mother’s. I never worried about my own drinking. I was confident that I was a “normal” social drinker. I admittedly had occasions when I over-did it, had horrible hangovers and even blacked-out, but I never lost a job or got a DUI. I was sure that alcohol was only a problem if it looked like my mother’s addiction.
I appeared successful in most areas of my life. I had a corporate job that I loved, I traveled the world, I accomplished many crazy athletic goals and had amazing friends. The problem was, I was unhappy internally. I could never figure out why I was never satisfied, and why I always wanted to be “over there” or somewhere else. After my mom died from alcohol and drug abuse at the age of 64, I started researching and re-thinking the role I wanted alcohol to play in my own life. The more I read and learned, the more I understood that my thoughts, beliefs and survival mechanisms I learned growing up in an alcoholic home were no longer serving me in my adult years.
I also learned that my drinking habits were not as harmless as society tells us. I came to the realization that alcohol is an elevator that only goes down and I wanted to get off before I hit the ground floor, like my mother did. I had a child at the age of 48 and it horrified me to think of my son going through what I went through as a child. I was determined to end the cycle of addiction and dysfunction in my family. I decided that it stops with me.
I started off experimenting with time away from drinking. 2 weeks, 30 days, 100 days, 7 months. And I failed. A LOT. I had hundreds of Day 1’s. I tried different apps to track my drinking, I read all the books, I joined communities. They all helped some, but I couldn’t seem to give up alcohol 100%. Then I found Annie Grace and This Naked Mind Institute. I knew immediately that this was the next step on my journey and became a Certified TNMI coach. Not only has alcohol finally become small and irrelevant in my life, but I have been able to apply this methodology to examine any area of my life where I feel I am holding myself back from what I really want. I can help you do this too.
My deepest desire is that anyone who wants to make changes in their life that they make them in a fraction of the time that I did.
My journey to freedom started with ditching the alcohol, but yours may be something else: food, smoking, toxic relationships, gambling, shopping, social media, self-doubt or self-loathing, etc. Our paths may be different, but the process to freedom is the same.
Don’t wait. Start Now on your path to becoming your best self!