18: Heart-Centered Coaching with Christine Rose Elle

My guest today is Christine Rose Elle, who is a business and life
coach.  She is a certified Beautiful You life coach and the
founder of The Heart-Centered Coach Community.  Her passions
include styling, beauty, portrait photography, branding,
marketing, and all things high-tech.  Her loves furnish her
with the perfect set of skills to help other coaches discover
their own skills and do meaningful work with their clients. 
Christine offers free monthly online training for life coaches
and soulful entrepreneurs who want to create and grow their dream
business.  She lives and works in a tiny Victorian bungalow
in Los Angeles with her husband and two amazingly spoiled dogs.
 


Christine shares the following about her life without
motherhood:


Christine is childless through a combination of choice and
circumstances.

She realised early in life that she didn’t want to have
children in the same way as many of her friends.

She married early and then divorced at age 30.  It was
at age 35 that she had her “epiphany” moment and realised that
her whole life to that point had been lived for someone else and
not herself.

Other factors played into her decision to not have
children.  She carried baggage from a difficult childhood, a
chronic health condition, and negative interactions with
doctors.  Regarding the possibility of giving birth, she
said, “I CANNOT be that vulnerable.”

She moved to Italy and met her husband.  They are
content with building their lives together, and the time never
seemed right to have a baby.

Christine has never felt intense pressure from family and
friends to become a mother, nor has she experienced intense
regret or grief over her life choices.

The decision to have children is a huge responsibility,
challenge, and commitment.  “It’s not like buying an
expensive dress, where you can just take it back if it doesn’t
work out.”

Some of the advantages of the relationship between Christine
and her husband are the self-actualization and support they can
give each other.  Christine also loves the personal time she
has to read, write and create.  This wouldn’t be possible if
she were busy raising a child.



Christine has many positive aspects to her life without children,
and she says she is perfectly happy being “Auntie” to her nieces
and nephews.  For her, having dogs also fulfils in a way,
the nurturing, mothering instinct.  Join us for Christine’s
story!


Find Christine online:


www.christineroseelle.com  (Her website, with links to her
Heart-Centered Community and more.)


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