228. What to Do When ‘You Can’t Do Anything Right!’ with Coleen Greco

If you're breathing, you've probably had one of these negative thoughts: I suck, I can never do anything right. What's wrong with me? Why does everybody else know this but me? Today’s guest, Coleen Greco, is a compassionate, empathetic, and violently authentic human being. But she wasn't always like that. In many ways, she has been plagued by her own self-defeating thoughts, which she generously shares in this episode.  Colleen calls herself a Joyologist. She provides mindset and nutrition coaching, as well as personal training to people who want to reclaim the joy in their life with the SNAP Method™. Note this episode has mentions of suicide. In college, Coleen says she pursued the money. She went for the highest-paying internship, earned an MBA, and started working for EMC, now Dell. She did this for 26 years.  “I just woke up one day and realized this is not my life and then made it switch,” says Coleen. “I never got quiet enough with myself to realize I had another option.” Six years ago, her 10-year-old son had a suicide attempt (he was unsuccessful and is now doing well!). Coleen and her family were shattered. They struggled to find help. Coleen says she ate, drank, and gained weight. “In these types of situations, there's very little that you can control, but I can control how I respond to situations,” says Coleen.  She says the nutrition coach she was working with didn’t see the connection between mindset and food choices. Coleen knew she could do it better. It was through her own healing journey where Coleen realized they had to center everything around joy. Joy became almost an obsession. “It was my choice to just see the beauty in everything, even in the darkest of moments, to be in a place of gratitude for the opportunity to change so much of what was going on,” says Coleen. It’s not that it's not painful and not that it's not real, but there's always a next. There is the ability here to choose not only what goes into your body, and how you view that choice. Coleen says the SNAP Method found her. She says when she started writing and thinking through the triggers, she realized if she was telling herself one story, then that means she could tell a different one. It’s a battle with the ego that’s trying to protect you. When the negative stories come up, and you feel triggered, that's the ego saying, here's the story. Remember, you're not smart enough. You're not good enough. And I have the evidence right here.  Breaking the emotional connection to those stories and then retiring those stories is really the power. For Coleen, it was how she kept the weight off.  She says food’s job is to keep you alive, but we put all these unfair expectations on food, and that's what gets us into trouble. Listen in for more about the SNAP Method and how you can use it to help rewrite the negative thoughts you tell yourself. Looking at where they came from, challenging and analyzing them can help you tell yourself a different story.  Coleen has a free gift for listeners to help you CRUSH Limiting Beliefs: https://coleen-greco-joyologist.ck.page/limitingbeliefs  Connect with Coleen:  https://www.coleengreco.com  On Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thecoleengreco/  On Facebook https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=547468763  Other GoG episodes you might want to check out: The 5 Stages of Healing: https://sarahwalton.com/stages-of-healing/  What is Emotional Eating and How Can You Stop: https://sarahwalton.com/emotional-eating/  You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton   Thank you so much for listening. I’m so honored that you’re here and would be so grateful if you could leave a quick review on Apple Podcasts by clicking here, scrolling to the bottom, and clicking “Write a review.” Then we’ll get to inspire even more people! (If you’re not sure how to leave a review, you can watch this quick tutorial.) #NegativeThoughts #LimitingBeliefs #NutritionCoach #AskExpert #WomenInBusiness #IntuitiveBusinessCoach #MindsetReset #FindingJoy #EntrepreneurLifestyle