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The Silent Trainer Alisha Mino, Certified Health & Wellness Coach BY ALISHA MINO PHOTOGRAPHY BY LANEY SKIDMORE
Alisha Mino
Alisha and Laura Bradley
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The world will tell you who you are. God will tell you who you are. But who you tell yourself you are, is the driving force in your life. Our internal truth ultimately creates our external expression. We have the ability to negate the negative and absorb or create the positive. Then, speak it into existence with healthy self-talk. Our self-talk is our personal silent trainer from within. My Mam-maw, who was my rock, would always tell me as a little girl I was destined to be a storyteller. She’d say I was long winded and could talk the ears off of the masses. Communication was most definitely my favorite past time and still is to this day. Fast forwarding to this pivotal point in my life today, I can see where what she saw lined up with a piece of my purpose. A journey of twists and turns that led me right here, to the story of my untold awakening. At the young age of seventeen I became a “teen mom.” My son was born one day before my eighteenth birthday and there I was, blowing out the candles on my cake in the hospital and feeling like I was on cloud nine. Not scared or regretful to have had him so early, only elated to be a mom. Just a few months later I would complete the backwards trek by getting married to the father of my son. I was so in love and thought my life was complete. Finding myself excited and ready to dive into the life of a wife and mother. Something I had always wanted early on.
