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by Trudy Rodkin Tobias (Author)
Has a loss or major life change made you wonder who you are now? Do you find yourself afraid of what the future will be? Are you doubtful about how to reclaim your life? Do you wonder if you will ever be happy again? Inside you will find the steps to discover a new, joyful you Bringing together tools and strategies from her 40+ years of counseling practice, coaching techniques and her spiritual journey, Trudy Rodkin Tobias, MSW, LCSW, will lead you down the path to know how to: Be strong in the face of adversity Conquer fears about the future Take emotional risks Improve relationships with yourself and others Make important life decisions Reinvent yourself and create a life you love Now Trudy Rodkin Tobias is a licensed clinical social worker with decades of experience in mental health settings and life coaching. She is the founder of TruEST* Life Coaching and also TruEST* Life Counseling. She is a life-long learner professionally and personally who has experienced a lot of changes and transitions in her own life. From losing an infant at age 38, to becoming a mom through adoption at age 40, to moving to the Southeast from the Midwest at age 58, to changing career directions and leaving a long-term marriage in her 60's, Trudy knows personally that it is possible not only to Reinvent Yourself at any age, but also how to grow and thrive in the process She truly "gets" the struggles and the joys of reinventing oneself, and is on a mission to help other women do the same. Come join her on your journey to living your truEST* life *TruEST stands for True, Essential-Self Transformed
Author Biography
Trudy Rodkin Tobias has a Masters in Social Work from Loyola University in Chicago and over forty years experience as a licensed clinical social worker in a variety of settings. In addition, she is certified by Christian Mickelson's Success Coaching Academy(R) as a Rapid Results Coach, and is also a certified Radical Forgiveness(R) Practitioner by Colin Tipping. Trudy has received additional training in other coaching modalities, including Dream Building(R) and Life Mastery(R) by Mary Morrissey. Because Trudy has experienced a lot of life changes including losing an infant at age 38, becoming a mom through adoption at age 40, moving to the Southeast from the Midwest at age 57, leaving a long-term marriage in her early 60's, and changing career directions to a self-empowerment coach and author in her late 60's, Trudy knows personally that it is not only possible to Reinvent Yourself at Any Age, but also how to grow and thrive in the process! Consequently, she is now on a mission to help other women do the same. To that end Trudy founded her TruEST* Life Coaching business, designed to help women conquer challenging life changes and learn how to craft a celebratory next chapter. She also wrote this book, Reinventing Yourself at Any Age: A Practical and Spiritual Instruction (Wo)Manual to help even more women do the same. Trudy grew up and spent most of her adult life in the northern suburbs of Chicago. She listened to her soul and moved to Greensboro, NC, in 2006, at the age of 57, where she lives with her loving Labrador/Border Collie mix, Odin, and her character of a cat, Binx, in a house full of bright colors that everyone who enters says is a "Trudy-house." She is now the proud grandmother of three grandsons, and through her son-in-law, one granddaughter and great granddaughter. Although Trudy believes she is much too young to be so old as to have grandchildren, she now fully understands the plaque that used to hang in her mother's den, "If I had known being a grandmother was so much fun, I would have done it first!" She loves to get to California to visit her family there as well as her family in Chicago as much as possible. *True Essential Self Transformed
