Mm

... really hard for me up to that point, is to s- start accepting who I was.

But then I started realizing about the traits themselves, the fact that I had compared myself over the years, especially at work, about how I process things differently than other people do.

I process emotions differently.

I tend to be more empathetic, you know, like, uh, highly sensitive people are.

And so learning about this as a trait, and there were behaviors that I had gone through in my life because I wasn't living authentically.

I was doing things that were counterproductive to me, and I started to realize why after I'd gone through this and after I had read Elaine's books, and especially her great blogs that she has, and writing about them myself.

I'm wondering, what have you seen with yourself or with your coaching clients around that experience?

Tell me about your book, 12 Weeks to a New Chapter.

So 12 Weeks to a New Chapter, uh, it, it, it's basically just a guide to help those involved in the criminal justice system.

Um, it gives them some background, it gives them, uh... basically it, it, it...

in book form, it is, uh, a generalized life coaching plan, and it can be used for those that are involved in the criminal justice system, um, those that are incarcerated or, uh, under supervision, as well as the corrections or law enforcement professionals that are sitting down and, and, and working with, with justice-involved people.

Um, you know, your, your prison counselors, your probation officers, your therapists, uh, if you have diversion programs.

It, it, it's just a guideline, but it's, it's geared toward both the justice-involved person and the, uh, the correctional and law enforcement pr- professional or support individual that can walk with them, um, through this journey.

Uh, so it's, it's really just the basic roadmap, and then with my program, I sit down, like I said earlier, a- and create an individualized program.

William, how do you describe, what is the past? To you, how do you verbalize this thing called the past?

talk about the world we're in now and the message you have.

Yeah.

Well, thanks for having me, John.

It's good to be with you.

Um, yeah, I, I had been living, uh, for decades, uh, as a woman.

It was something I dealt with since early childhood and I finally gave into it in, uh, the early 90s, and I transitioned.

And I was one of those that was able to pass in society.

Yeah, like I