A Better You Blog

Patricia’s purpose in life is:

to live happy, healthy, successful, and free;
to be real and transparent, and to make the most of every moment;
to be a positive influence on those around her;
to share the truth in love and compassion;
to inspire others to conquer fear and achieve greatness;
to encourage others in their search for God and life’s purpose.

She is an energetic motivator with an enthusiasm for life. She is purpose-driven, optimistic, and disciplined. She is committed to living her best life and maintains a healthy balance between achieving goals and enjoying life. Her greatest passions are her love for God, her marriage, her children, and spreading her mantra “you can do it!” to anyone who will listen.

Patricia attended the university on a full scholarship, and graduated Magna Cum Laude with a 4 year degree in just 5 semesters.
She has been an interpreter for the deaf, a high school teacher, and an adjunct college professor. She and her husband have spoken to groups as a couple, and she has also led women’s groups on motivation, identity and self-confidence. She is currently a stay-at-home mom, and also a self-taught web designer. In her “free time”, she has returned to the university (after 12 years) and completed a Ph.D. program as a doctoral fellow. She is now a Ph.D. candidate and is writing her dissertation.

Patricia believes life comes with adversity and sometimes you get knocked down. You can either let it keep you down and pretend it’s fine, or get back up, brush yourself off, and get back in the game.

Everyone has a story of life’s challenges. Here are some examples of how Patricia has practiced courageous living:

Patricia has succeeded in recovery from an eating disorder for 14 years.

She has felt true lonliness, and risen above it. Finding herself alone, she moved to a new state, started a business, and succeeded in supporting herself comfortably while healing from the pain of her past.

Despite trauma during her childhood, she replaced all the ensuing thoughts of being worthless with a true confidence in who she is, and enjoys an exciting sex life with her husband of 9 years. When she met her husband, she immediately knew he was the one, and pushed on in courage to conquer her fear of intimacy.

Patricia follows an eating plan that keeps her at a healthy weight for her size 6 frame, and has been able to lose baby weight from three pregnancies easily with this eating plan. It includes no refined sugar, and eating balanced meals throughout the day. Patricia also loves to boogieboard at the beach, enjoys camping in the mountains, loves a good game of Nertz, loves writing, reading, watching documentaries, and step aerobics. She and her husband have three children.

contact: patricia (at) abetteryoublog (dot) com