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How I Discovered Inspired Action When I Hit Rock Bottom

How I got out of my head and into my life

6 min readApr 13, 2023

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Dazzle (author’s son) and me (author)

Have you ever felt like life was just too difficult to carry on? Did it seem like there could be no possible solution to the situation you were in? Did you feel backed into a corner with no way out?

I feel blessed to have overcome adversity and to be thriving in the life I’ve made. Over the last 10 years, I’ve worked with hundreds of people from different walks of life: prison inmates, wellbeing coaches and social entrepreneurs.

And while each of them have their own challenges, I’ve received one question repeatedly: How do I know what I should do next?

Fact: there is no straight forward answer. However, while reflecting back on my own experience and in my work now as a Psychospiritual Mentor to Coaches I realised there are three things that are common to all the transformations I’ve seen.

1. Letting go of how I thought it should be

Many years ago I went through one of the most difficult times I’ve had with work and life. It was during the time of the financial crash in 2009 and when I say difficult I mean ‘desperate’. I found myself in debt up to my eyeballs, with…

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About Me Stories
About Me Stories

Published in About Me Stories

A publication dedicated to bringing out the stories behind the writers themselves. A place of autobiographies. Types of personal stories include introductions, memoirs, self-reflections, and self-love.

JB Hollows
JB Hollows

Written by JB Hollows

Doing Life Perfectly Imperfect. I empower change-makers to unlock their Emotional Resilience & take Inspired Action. https://jbhollows.ck.page/profile

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