Alison Tindall for Nurse Life Coach Academy Video Testimonials

Speaker: Alison Tindall, Care transition coordinator

Alison Tindall: Hi, my name is Alison Tindall, and I'm in a current cohort of the NLCA. Um, the reason that I wanted to join this and make a change in my career kind of um to redirect some of my intentions as a as a nurse, was that I was just kind of unsatisfied in my current role. I wanted some more autonomy. I wanted autonomy around my schedule, around how I can help patients. And how I spend my time on this earth helping other people. I've kind of lost that in the career that I am and wanted to just really dig in and work in a more proactive way to help my patients and help people in general. I wanted to spend my time in a meaningful manner that I felt like my skill set could really benefit. And um I did this now, um, I've been thinking about it for, for a long time and um it just kind of struck a chord that, um, why wait, uh, do it now so I can uh start helping more people and, and becoming more satisfied in my everyday life.

Alison Tindall: What made me say yes to becoming a nurse coach, um, I think the biggest part was that I really wanted to make an impact for people in a way that I thought could help help more people. So helping one person then helps another person. And really just digging in to see root cause of things and just make people's quality of life better, you know, I think medicine certainly has has a place for all of us in modern medicine and Western medicine, but I also feel like being a nurse coach kind of helps to dig into the emotional, spiritual pieces of things that really impact our Health and well-being. And if we make healthy nurses and healthy moms and healthy, healthy people, the world becomes a more healthy place, and I think that is where I can can help and lend some of my, my skills and some of my knowledge of being a nurse and then move it into this coaching kind of career that I'd like to launch.

Alison Tindall: Um, what has changed for me since certification? Um, I will say that even after the first week of certification, my life has been impacted. I have a more positive outlook. I kind of am re-energized to do the work that I intended on doing when I became a nurse, and that is to to help people and have an impact. And I feel like even just my everyday with some of the lessons that we've learned and the modules we've watched and some of the trainings that I can handle just everyday situations with more grace, more patience, and with just a different lens that I really needed. I didn't know how much I needed kind of a reset until I began to reframe some of the thinking and my responses and my reactions and Um, not even just with my work, but with my family and my children and my interactions outside of work, just even at the store, it's, it's different. I have a different lease on kind of life and different things, so um it's definitely improved my quality of life, and that's one thing that I really hope I can implement in my practices is to help people's quality of life, because I think that's, that's one of the biggest impacts that we can have is not only nurses but nurse coaches.

Alison Tindall: What am I most proud of? I am most proud of, um. Just the potential of me taking the time and energy and really setting aside this certification as a priority for me. It is a bit of a time time sacrifice for short term, but for the long term benefits, I really think that it's going to be worth it. So I'm I'm proud that I decided to do this for myself and my own fulfillment and for for me, so I can be better at all of the things that I need to do. I am a mom and a You know, a wife and also an employee, and I am proud that even just doing the certification for the time that I have has impacted my outlook and the way that I manage things, the way that I manage relationships and interactions, and I'm proud that I can bring that to the table, and I think the certification will just continue to enrich those skills and my priorities and help me rearrange and become the person that I want to be in this world, which is to Um, you know, be a fountain, not a drain. So I want to be a fountain in the way that I can bring positivity and maybe help some people navigate some of these really tough things that people are going through, and I don't want to be a drain. I don't want to be an emotional drain for anybody else. I want to really be that that person that brings something to the table. So I'm proud of, of taking the chance to do this certification and investing in myself and the potential.

Alison Tindall: What I would say to a nurse considering joining a nurse Life Coach Academy is that if you have an inkling that this is something that that might be a good fit for you, you know, have the conversation um with with the leaders, um, ask the questions, but take the chance. Um, honestly, it's, it's kind of a small investment for the potential um return that you get, um. And I will say that even, you know, I, my goal is private practice, but along the way, it has really enriched some of my relationships and my interactions and my overall well-being. I've been able to kind of take some of the time to focus on what I need to do to improve myself to become a better coach. So I would say that, you know, not only is it an investment to a future potential practice or or role in Within another entity, but it's also kind of a self-fulfilling, filling opportunity with a low kind of investment. So I would say if you're considering it, look into it, but really maybe just, you know, take the, take a leap and do it. It's it's kind of a short time. You can always make more money. You can always do the other things, but you know, sometimes these opportunities are something we need to jump onto.