I want to share a little about my journey and why I started this coaching business.

It’s been a path of growth, learning and resilience.

21 years ago, I was a happily married mom to 3 daughters. You might say I was living the perfect life.

My husband owned his business, I had just started up my own business and 2 of my girls were in college.

We were living in a beautiful home my husband and I designed together.

Life was good. He was a very hard worker and it was hard on our family having him work 6 days at 60 hours every week.

And that didn’t include neighbors and friends calling for him to ‘just run down and open the store

so they could finish their project” on the long weekend.

We would spend every Thanksgiving at his parent’s house, his mom would put on a fabulous Thanksgiving dinner.

We would come home every year to our home being decked out with Christmas lights, our official start to the holiday. 

As we drove down our long driveway,  I started feeling an ache and a sense of apprehension in the pit of my stomach.

Our house was completely dark, not even the porch lights were on. Here we go again, I thought to myself.

It seems, now I look back, every 8-10 years we would literally go through a separation, with me always going back to him.

StarIng in March, 2005, he moved upstairs into the guest room and stopped talking to me completely.

I did make some overtures to him, asking if he wanted to talk, but he always replied that it wasn’t a good idea.

For 3 months we lived together in the house without speaking a word. 

Towards the end of June, I started looking for another place to move into. I couldn’t stand the stress.

Our youngest was addicted to drugs and although we tried to get her the help she needed, she wasn’t willing.

If there is one huge piece of advice that might save your peace of mind is to realize and understand, until the person is ready to get help,

there is nothing you can do to persuade them. 

Today she has been sober for over 9 years, please read business page 

Shari Williams Coaching, to read Amber’s story. I found a townhouse and moved into it.

He even helped me move the furniture, put together the bed. He was so helpful.

I assumed this was what he wanted, his actions could not be clearer.

That was when he decided he could move into the townhouse with me.

He wanted me back, but he couldn’t tell me why he acted the way he did.

I had my own suspicions, which were later confirmed by ‘helpful’ friends.

As the years progressed, so did our divorce. He started seeing a girlfriend.

He fired me from my one job at his place of business so I had no income coming in. His girlfriend needed health insurance.

Apparently, I did not. That was when I decided there really wasn’t any help out there for middle aged women,

who have been married for a very long time and find themselves suddenly all alone. 

I had to learn things I never had to do when I was married. Mowing the lawn, filling the car with gas, getting the car serviced,

working full time and dealing with all household things. I was seeing another guy at this time,

I moved into another home away from my home town to start fresh. He turned into a deadbeat and I learned what ‘love-bombing’

and ‘narcissist’ meant. I had been with my ex-husband since I was almost 16 so this was my first experience dealing with someone like this.

He was 14 years older than me, I was 46 and he turned 60. I was finally able to get away from him, but that is another story for later.

I realized I didn’t have the support I needed and thought I would start a coaching group where like-minded women

could get together virtually and help each other out. I started taking classes to get my certification.

I was also seeing a therapist who had scheduled an important meeting the same day I was to take the test to get my certificate.

I made the wrong choice and went to my therapist’s recommendation and didn’t take the test.

But I always had it in the back of my mind, coaching mid-age women was what I really wanted/needed to do!

So now it’s been 17-18 years later and for the past 7 years I have been studying, coaching, doing all the things to improve my practice.

I want to reach out to more women. I am committed to helping as many women as I can so they may live a happy and joyous life.

It isn’t easy, and there may be some roadblocks, but one thing I can tell you is that you will NOT ever feel all alone if you join me.

Your life can be exactly what you dream it to be.

Please look over my Facebook page Shari Williams Coaching. You will find more stories and information. 

Thank you for taking the time to read this, I really appreciate it!

With Warm Regards,

Shari Williams