Hello and thanks for being here! I’m Angela- busy homeschooling mom, wife, entrepreneur, coach, speaker, recovering perfectionist, and the creator of The Perfuct Club.
Keeping up appearances and pretending everything was always perfect was definitely a big part of my childhood. With a former schoolteacher, perfectionist mother and a straight-laced police officer father, the pressure of doing right and being the best was something I felt each day.
Throughout my childhood, I participated on many high level sports teams, achieved top honours, held a good paying job, got accepted into the post-secondary school of my choice, and was laser focused on being the next corporate big deal. I was ticking all of the correct boxes along the path to “success.”
Shortly after my nineteenth birthday, that path changed in an instant when I got in a serious car accident. Months and years went by where I struggled to understand how that “terrible” event would positively impact the rest of my life. My career plan, studies, social life, sports, and hobbies came to a screeching halt, while I focused on getting a grip on my health. I spent several years trying to get answers and attending appointments and treatments. These challenges even led to the cancellation of my wedding after my fiancé decided that it was more than he could handle.
By the time I reached my late twenties, I had created the illusion of having it all back together despite my ongoing physical limitations. I had what so many would have dreamed of at that age- a cute puppy, a new SUV, a motorcycle, a fancy little apartment, and more, but I had never been more miserable in my life! I was so empty and lonely and had no one to share my fears, happiness, thoughts, and/or ideas with. I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life and “stuff” clearly didn’t make me happy. I committed to figuring out what made me happy and enlisted the help of a coach and a counsellor.
I realized that following the accident, so much of my identity had been stripped away and I knew nothing else. I had always been a human “doing” and now I was just a human “being.” What did I have to offer the world? What was my purpose? As I worked through what I was learning, I discovered that having everything ripped away in an instant was likely the best thing for me. I was able to start rebuilding myself from the ground up- I certainly couldn’t rely on what I already knew, as what I knew definitely hadn’t been working for me.
I discovered that I didn’t know the feeling of joy or happiness. Every moment I reflected on was tightly tied to a self-imposed expectation- it was what I was “supposed to do,” not necessarily what I wanted to do.
Step-by-step, I worked on creating MY own definition of success. I did want a husband, children, an active social life, and a work/life balance. I learned that it was okay for me to do things that I wanted to do, have boundaries, and just say, “No” sometimes. And, I learned that I had the power to choose joy.
Over the past twenty years, I have owned multiple businesses, worked for a large corporation as a business operations specialist, become a multi-unit franchisee spanning three provinces, achieved certifications in counselling science, meditation, personal training, nutrition coaching, cosmetology, home staging, social media marketing, digital marketing, life coaching, and more recently, NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) Hypnotherapy, Time Line Therapy®, and DISC assessment certifications. I am currently furthering my learning journey to become a certified Yoga Instructor.
My passion lies in helping women achieve a higher degree of self-acceptance, assisting them in determining their own definition of success, and living a well-balanced and happy life.
I ’m committed to transparently sharing my struggles, juggles, and knowledge to inspire and guide women to let go and and love the imperfuct life they’re in.
