Meet Camille Ellis

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Camille Ellis. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Camille below.

Hi Camille, really happy you were able to join us today and we’re looking forward to sharing your story and insights with our readers. Let’s start with the heart of it all – purpose. How did you find your purpose?

I found my purpose through many traumas in my life. Surviving betrayal, abuse, child’s debilitating illness and the loss of my child’s life from suicide.

Each experience taught me my own resilience, capacity and capability to be strong and purposeful to help myself and others with compassion and love.

Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?

My story begins with allowing all my emotions and thoughts about my circumstances. With every experience I taught myself how to think of what I could do versus what I couldn’t do. I would choose how I wanted to be in the moment to give myself the emotion I needed to be able to get through, rise above or learn from it to become stronger and wiser. This process not only serves me, but serves those around me.

After each experience and I’ll use the loss of my son as an example; I suffered as anyone would with grief. It was during my deepest grief, when feeling my life would never be truly lived again. My other children, family members, business, even my dog would suffer from loosing who I once was. My most painful thought was; “I will never truly smile again”. It was in that very moment I used the tools I had collected over the years of surviving and started laughing through my tears. I understood, I would be better, stronger and more powerful than I ever imagined. I saw my son’s life as a whole, I was privileged to be given the experience of his entire life. Because he lived, I would honor him always. I would be more capable of mothering, loving, supportive, successful and nurturing as I know he would wish. I also understood on a spiritual level, this was part of my journey as my sons was never meant to be long, he was almost 19 years old when he passed. I was incredibly grateful in the moment and full of love for myself and the energy around me. It was one of my most beautiful and powerful moments in life. I was right, I would never be the same, I would be better! It was so powerful experiencing this mind management under such extreme grief.

I now have the privilege of helping others do the same. It’s an honor and an extension of my son’s life purpose. Life is a beautiful journey we can all enjoy even the painful moments with enormous love. Loving ourselves, finding use of all experiences, learning, loving and developing through all of it with purpose.

When I Coach my clients, I show them how they’re getting in their own way. How they’re thought about every situation is what brings up the emotions they’re feeling. Changing my perspective of; “I lost my son” to “I had my son” was and is so simple, yet a HUGE shift of healing and understanding for my journey.

It’s is my honor to help others see new perspectives that truly serves them in their life. Opening up new beliefs and eliminating the limited beliefs. With coaching in a one-on-one session with me, my clients are safe and able to open up to their emotions and allow them to flow through without holding them back. They learn how our emotions are vibrations we feel and allowing them, observing them is easier than fighting them. Then the healing begins and the new life with new purpose begins.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?

I always knew I was meant for something meaningful from an early age. I kept that belief in my heart. I used it with every set back. Learning who you are and your virtues is an important tool of survival. I built my strength and resilience with my belief that “I could” versus “I can’t”. I’m an extremely creative thinker, finding the thought to create momentum in reaching my ultimate self. #1 Know who you are #2 Keep your purpose in your heart to lean on when challenged # 3 Choose how you can create the results that serve you best with purpose.

My advice is to start with a list; what do you want and what do you not want. Keep that list close and refer to it often. Change it up as life will change too. When facing obstacles, refer to it to see how it may or may not help guide you. Be open to learning from every experience, especially the hard ones. Be the person you want to be, choose love over hate. Love what is and allow it and yourself most importantly to move forward.

Is there a particular challenge you are currently facing?

I’m currently ending my 25 year marriage. This is one of the hardest decisions I’ve ever made and I’m doing it with love. I’m self coaching everyday to stay focused on what I know is best for me, how to take care of myself, health and rest while also being respectful and loving. I find the thought I want to carry intentionally to be productive each day. I’m allowing my husband’s emotions without attaching to them. He’s on his journey and I’m on mine. I’m hoping to be a good example to our adult children while they too have their own emotional experiences. The bottom line throughout this challenge for me, is to be respectful, honest, compassionate and loving. For everyone including myself. I’m showing myself how to be loving when my brain wants to be negative. It’s making the process easier than if I choose to be hateful and angry.

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