Heartburn Gone, Mind Quiet — Yana's Coaching Story

"My daughter tells me I am so different from a year ago. She said, 'Mom, now I can listen with you. You don't panic. You're becoming much more positive.'"

Hi everyone, my name is Yana. I'd like to share my experience of working with Chandra.

I was in a bad place when we started. I'd gained a lot of weight. I had house issues. I had horrible heartburn. My relationship with my daughter was not great, and my relationship with my boyfriend — we're from different cultures — was full of blame and negative thoughts. Chandra was kind of my last hope. My physical condition was terrible. I had non-stop heartburns. I came to her because of the weight.

Naming the Stress I Couldn't See

When we started talking, the focus quickly moved to stress. When I started doing my journal, I noticed my stress levels were so high — I didn't even realize how I was always stressed.

The progress was slow at first because I doubted anything could really help me. But little by little, things started happening. I got rid of sugar, flour, alcohol, and coffee. Alcohol was actually not the difficult one — coffee in the morning, that was a real struggle. But I did it. I lost about 14 pounds. Slow, but it happened.

Catching the Thoughts

The most important shift wasn't the weight — it was my attitude toward people. My thoughts used to rush through my head non-stop, and most of them were negative. I'd immediately assume the worst. I was panicky all the time, even about my business — when my granddaughter was born I was away for two months and I was panicking that my business wasn't going how I wanted.

Slowly but surely, working with Chandra changed my perspective. I became more relaxed. I became more logical. I started playing this game — first the bad thought comes, then I catch it and say what if I stop thinking what I'm thinking? Because honestly, my panicky thoughts had no logic in them. It was just the pattern that had been running me. If I sat down and thought hard about it, I'd think, why was I even thinking that? This is crazy. And those thoughts had been ruling me. There was nothing I could do.

That changed. And the positive results were amazing.

"My daughter said: now I can listen with you. You don't jump to conclusions. Your energy went up."

Working with Chandra gave me back my body, my mind, and the relationships I thought were too far gone. And as a mother and grandmother, the parenting piece was the one I didn't expect to shift — but it did.

— Yana