I want you to meet someone I have met in my journey's since becoming Afflicted With RSD/CRPS. Her name is Marla Martindale, but like many, I know her as Coach Marla. I invited her to be a guest blogger on here and she accepted. I don't think I expected any less from her either. She has a warm and bubbly personality and I look forward to all interactions in the future. So I introduce you to Coach Marla:

Thank you Christine for your interest in me and my RSD Coaching™. I am delighted and honored to be mentioned on your website. Let me start by telling you a little about myself. My name is Marla Martindale. I live in Abilene, Texas with my husband and two dogs. Some of my other family are here in Abilene as well as in other parts of Texas, and there are some in Missouri.

I have been afflicted with RSD since October 2003 due to a severe break to my left ankle. Then in October 2007 I was diagnosed with full body RSD, Fibromyalgia, Osteoporosis, and MS. So I know about different types of pain and I have made it my life’s mission to focus on those of us who are afflicted with RSD for coaching.

When I was first diagnosed with RSD in Oct. 2003 I was so confused and didn’t know where to turn or what to do. There was so little known about it and unfortunately that is still the case. So I wanted to do anything I could to get the word out, to make people aware that Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy exists and is real. I researched everything and everywhere I possibly could, I talked to anyone who would listen to me.

During the researching and talking I was also learning. Learning many aspects of RSD. The good, the bad, and the ugly. You are probably saying, “The good? Is there anything good about having RSD?” Yes there is, with my RSD Coaching™ I will coach you on how you can get to know yourself on a level that you would have never done before.

With my coaching, you will begin to understand things from your minds eye, from the inside out. Once you begin to understand yourself, your mental strength begins to build allowing you to use many of my RSD Coaching™ methods to coping with all the daily obstacles we face that cause us distress and/or pain.

My RSD Coaching™ tools are all different and an example of one would be my RSD Harmony Lessons™, with my coaching you will discover how to create a joyful, stress-less, easy and effortless life starting by changing your thoughts, then your feelings and finally your actions.

You will also discover how to give yourself the gift of harmony of body, mind and spirit regardless of what chaos surrounds you.

By putting all my RSD Coaching™ with my research is the best way I benefit you and be your coach. So, I studied some more, did more research and became the first known RSD Coach™. And I carry that title proudly and with honor because it the light that allows me to share my gift with you. I have taken an Oath as to how I will treat others in business as well as personal, which can be found on my website A Winning Life With RSD

As your RSD Coach™, I get the pleasure of helping you in ways many doctors can’t, your families can’t and your friends can’t, why? Because if they haven’t lived with RSD, then they don’t understand how it feels to put your feet on the floor and have it feel as if there were thousands of rusty, dull nails trying to wedge their way into the bottom of your feet….I do, I live it, and I have conquered it and I want to share that with you.

I will also coach your family and friends so they better understand what you are going through and they themselves will begin to grow, empathize, and support you better.

You are the afflicted person, so it is important for you to have support from your family and friends as well as doctors and others.

It always amazes me when someone with RSD says they hate going to the doctor because they are not being believed about the amount of pain they have been in. If that doctor hasn’t lived with this horrible disorder or any other painful disorder, how do they really know what you are going through? How can they even begin to empathize?

They can’t. So who can?

It takes someone who has lived through it to help you live through it.

It takes someone who understands how much pain you have to allow you to be able to release that burden so you can move on to a more joyful life.

It takes someone who knows how difficult it is to take a shower or a bath to develop ways for you to be able to conquer that as well.

My RSD Coaching™ has many steps for you to go through, there is a certain process to reaching your ultimate goal, and takes someone who is going to be there with you step by step, coaching you through your journey. That person is me, your RSD Coach™. I am so proud to be able to coach you, and guiding you through the many levels to where you are smiling again and living a more full filled life.

You deserve the gift of an RSD Coaching Package™ that feels right for you.

You chose the package that feels right for you and I will coach you every step of the way.

Standard RSD Coaching Package™:
* Three 40 minute calls a month or Two 1 hour calls a month.
* Email Welcome Kit™
* Up to 10 Emails or Faxes per month
* $100.00 a month
Advance RSD Coaching Package™:
* Four 40 minute calls a month or Two 1 hour calls and One 40 minute call a month
* Email Welcome Kit™
* Up to 15 Emails or Faxes per month
* RSD Harmony Lessons™
* $150.00 a month
Premier RSD Coaching Package™:
* Four 45 minute calls a month or Three 1 hour calls a month
* Email Welcome Kit™
* Up to 100 Emails or Faxes per month
* RSD Gift Set™
* RSD Harmony Lessons™
* RSD Self Discovery™
* Other Educational Materials mailed directly to you as well as emailed.
* $220.00 a month
InnerCircle Group™:
* Two 1 hour calls a month
* Group Setting for comfortability
* $25.00 a month

I also do a radio talk show every Tuesday at 1:00pm CST, which can be found at:

www.rsdcoachlive.com . I have guest who share their stories of how they conquered their struggles with different afflictions, authors, and even doctors who share different theories of why we are all getting ill.

So come and spend an interesting hour, sometimes its two hours, with me on the radio.

There is also a phone number that you can call in with questions or comments for the guests or myself, or you can be a guest yourself to help get the word out about RSD.

That number is 347-324-5661.

If you have any questions for me, or are ready to be empowered and start your journey to a more full filled life, please feel free to email me at winninglife@rsdcoach.com .

Thank you again Christine for spotlighting me on your website. It is a pleasure and an honor to be here. I look forward to working with you in the future.

I have a Special Offer for all of Christine’s readers!

Send me an email to winninglife@rsdcoach.com and request your FREE RSD Report™.

Offer good through May 4, 2008.

In His Glory,

RSD Coach™ Marla

Email: winninglife@rsdcoach.com

Phone: 325-692-8584

Fax: 206-309-0209

RSD Coaching™ Website: A Winning Life With RSD

Radio Talk Show: Winning Life Through Pain

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