Kelly Lynch is the founder of The Unapology Project. Through her private therapy practice and life coaching practice, Kelly empowers purpose driven women to take their power back. Kelly has been a therapist for over a decade, and turned to life coaching after completely transforming her life.

In today’s episode, Kelly shares her journey walking out of a marriage filled with domestic violence in 2014, with her year and a half old daughter under her arm, to picking up her life and rewriting her story. After leaving her marriage, she spent the next three years slowly taking control back. She started a private psychotherapy practice, and transitioned out of her community mental health position and into her practice full time. She built it into a thriving one woman show, and nurtured a professional reputation she finally felt proud of. In her personal life, she literally and figuratively cleaned house. She ended the toxic relationships (including her marriage) which had become so exhausting. She bought a home – her home – and got rid of all the possessions which no longer served a purpose in the life she was trying to build. She lost 30+ pounds, became a life coach, personal trainer, and certified nutrition coach. Kelly found ways to nurture a healthy relationship with her body, once and for all. She realized she could be a thriving business owner as long as she put her mind to it. She stopped apologizing for failing at trying to live up to a story which was never meant for her.

Kelly’s story is not about surviving, but rather learning how to thrive in spite of challenge. It’s about recovery, hope, successes and sometimes hard lessons, and living a life of joy in the face of the unexpected. I am so blown away by Kelly - her willingness to step fully into her vulnerability, courage, joy, hope and possibility. Today, Kelly specializes in working with women who share similar stories as hers, and it’s Kelly’s life mission to shout from the mountaintops to these women just how much hope and happiness is actually waiting for them on the other side of their healing. If you are ready to live your best life, #unapologize, and be epic, come join The Unapologetic Collective!

“It’s a dream to be able to do the work I’m doing now. I know beyond a shadow of a doubt my experience with trauma pushed me to become the woman I am today because I was unwilling to back down and surrender to it. I dream of being able to support thousands of women for the rest of my career to find that same source of strength and resiliency inside of themselves, to use their voice, and take joy in taking up space. We all have stories worth telling.”

— Kelly Lynch

Tune in on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7bZHrtjAzbksbLWNaak1NM

Tune in on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stories-of-inspiring-joy/id1510488632

To connect with Kelly and learn more visit her website www.theunapologyproject.com and on Instagram @unapologetically.authenic and Facebook @theunapologyproject and @kelly.lynch.227

Stories of Inspiring Joy is a production of Seek The Joy Media and created by Sydney Weiss. To learn more and submit your story, click here.