oh, hi! I'm Jenna Watson, Life Coach...

I’m a certified Martha Beck Wayfinder coach, specializing in life transformation -- AKA helping people revamp their lives to be more awesome and more true to who they really are. 

In my capacity as a coach, I want to point out a crappy truth right now. Ready? Here it is: 

We're taught to DREAM BIG, right? But sometimes “dreaming big” about how different you could be/look/feel/act, or how bold/adventurous/different/awesome your life could be is a MAJOR drag. 

I mean, how fun is it to DREAM BIG when the dream never frickin’ comes true?! 

I'm a lifelong dreamer, myself, but I let myself go with the flow for far too long, growing more and more miserable the longer I kept trudging along. 

The reason I never changed? Because I believed all kinds of external things needed to change so I could change. I also had NO IDEA where and how to get started (hell, I didn't even know what I really wanted).

I also believed plenty of other things:

• It would be too hard to (insert any dream here) and I was too lazy.
• Big change was impossible for someone like me and I was too damn old anyway.
• I'd end up broke and living in a box under a bridge, trying to teach pigeons how to line dance. 

I believed it all. And so I stayed stuck.  

Thinking, wishing, and dreaming are great ways to get started on a path of change if you know how to put those dreams into action. But many of us (and I speak from experience, here) have no idea how to make the change happen. Hell, sometimes we can’t even identify what it is we really want! 

My journey to becoming a coach started when I was, as the kids say, “going through some things.” Simply put, I was f*cking miserable. My biggest problem was one I could barely articulate at the time: I felt like I was two entirely different people. 

I couldn’t even really explain it further than that. I just knew that I chafed against many parts of my life as it actually was, while yearning for something it most definitely wasn’t. 

Inside, I felt like a creative, brave, wild, free person in charge of creating my destiny. In reality, I was someone that felt trapped as I let my successful-but-boring life take over while I just went along for the ride. 

Here are just a few of the ways this “two-part-Jenna” expressed itself:

• accepting bad relationships that I knew were surface-level at best, so at least I could tell myself I was in a relationship; 
• entering into a marriage I knew was doomed but went through with anyway, because that's what you're supposed to do at a certain age...right?; 
• eating out of boredom and frustration and therefore living inside a body that looked nothing like how I perceived myself from the inside;
• losing over 80 pounds and getting in the best shape of my life, only to regain half the weight because I didn't trust myself to maintain that version of me forever;
• hiding my tattoos (that I love) so I could fit a corporate America persona (that I hated); 
• consistently moving up the ladder in a career that looked great on paper but wanting to stab my eyes out every single day I went to work or even thought about it too much;
• dreaming of what my life would’ve been like if only, I’d ________ (fill in various and sundry blanks, here)

This “duality” of mine felt like a splinter – it was annoying and sometimes it hurt and I was constantly reminded of it. So, to pull the thing out (metaphorically, of course), I started by reading various “self-help-y” books and trying to incorporate their techniques. That helped some, but it did next to nothing in terms of making actual changes. 

Next, I hired a coach myself, who helped me see things in a way I’d never been able to before and who held me accountable to what I said I’d do. That ended up with me taking the training to become a coach, and I can finally say that I know a thing or two about how to identify and articulate your biggest desires AND how to go get them. 

If you can relate to any of this, I would love to talk to you. I want to help you see that you can know EXACTLY who you are and where you want to be, so you can love the f*ck out of life! 

If you read all that and you're still thinking, "OK Jenna, but what is a life coach, for real tho, yaknowwhatimean?" then head on over to my blog and read all about it in my post "What the f&*k is a life coach, anyway?" 

You can also learn more about how I work, in the Work With Me section. If you're ready to rock and roll, fill out the form below and I'll be in touch to schedule a free consultation.