Today we’d like to introduce you to Angela Bennett.
Hi Angela, we’re thrilled to have a chance to learn your story today. So, before we get into specifics, maybe you can briefly walk us through how you got to where you are today?
I had my first son at 17 from a man 27 years my senior. I suffered postnatal depression which turned into depression and eventually suicidal tendencies.
After my relationship to my son’s father ended, he forcefully took my son from me. Due to my broken heart, my depressed mind, my lonely state, I ended up in the sex industry, selling my body, looking for love, attempting to find happiness.
For the next almost 3 decades I would find myself in a string of relationships that were abusive emotionally, sexually, mentally and eventually physically, one that almost cost me my life at the hands of a man I thought loved me.
By the age of 25, I had given birth to 5 children to four different men, married twice and still wrestling with depression, suicidal thoughts and attempts.
By the age of 39, I had been in and out of the sex industry on 3 separate occasions.
I had no self-worth; I couldn’t see my value.
At 19, God revealed to me the vision of being a speaker and author to help other women who had found themselves in a similar situation, but I had no idea how to get to where I wanted to be.
I knew God had a plan for me and I held onto that dreams for decades.
I began coaching courses and wellness courses, anything that would help me heal and equip me with tools to help and serve others. I had no idea of the unravelling that necessarily lay before me before I could step into my purpose in God’s timing.
Fast forward to December 30, 2021, my partner of 4 years walked out on me in our holiday home. I was devastated and fearful at a life on my own for the first time in years!
A month into moving into my own space, my body began to relax out of fight and flight mode for the first time in 3 decades, revealing the truth of the scars, the trauma, the abuse, heartache, stress and pain that lay in the cells of my being. I had suppressed everything for years so I could make it through life.
God began a work on me, I never saw coming!
I had been drinking alcohol every day to help me cope with the pain and the ugliness of my dirt that had revealed itself to me. I didn’t realize I had a problem, until one day, the bubbles in the champagne bottle weren’t enough and I mixed a fateful concoction of vodka with the champagne, that night, my daughter had to pick me up off the shower floor after suicidal thoughts reared their head again. The pain too deep to bear any longer, the anguish in my bones had overcome me and I wanted to leave this life.
The next morning, I began searching for alcohol rehabilitation with a focus on healing trauma. I needed help! I could not do this on my own! My children were being impact4ed by my drunkenness again!!!
During this time, I was approached by a woman I had not met before, even though we were both contributing authors in an anthology together, I didn’t know much about her, we hadn’t connected. She reached out to me and walked me through her 30-day program of communion, I AM affirmations and changing my mindset.
This time with our Lord cracked me wide open, leaving me completely vulnerable and exposed, allowing all my dirt, my shame, my addictions, my pain to be poured out before our King. I had time to rest in Him and heal.
“I have been waiting for this moment. Come away with me, my love” became my father’s plea to my heart. I had never experienced Jesus in this way, He has become my best friend.
This time, this experience, this cracking wide open needed to happen. I had tried everything in my own strength to make this life work and I had failed over and over and over and over again.
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
Hahahaha absolutely not!
Lack of self-worth and love
Domestic Violence
Unreported rape at 14
Substance abuse
Sex work
Financial struggles
Children from different fathers
Divorce
Mental health
Depression
Loss of hope in life and dreams
Shame and guilt
Great, so let’s talk business. Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
Angie B Transformation’s; a multi-dimensional coaching specialty, centred on the complete revitalisation of the lives of despondent women, from the inside out.
Seamlessly infusing personal style assessment and recreation, coupled with the facilitation of transformative life coaching.
I offer clients an authentic depiction of what life looks like, when changed by the power of spiritual, physical, and mental edification.
As one reshaped from the ashes of an unfortunate past, I come alongside women to help them know and understand that their past does not define them, it refines them.
I reach out to those who are at their personal breaking points; lifting them out of the pits they find themselves in, as I have done, for myself.
Have you learned any interesting or important lessons due to the Covid-19 Crisis?
YES!
People are finally being wisened up to the fact that mental health is REAL!
As humans, we are diverse and unique in our beliefs, our fears, our needs and desires, but at the end of the day, we need community, we need understanding, love, acceptance and to belong!
Disease, pain, loss and destruction is no respecter or wealth or societal status.
At the end of the day, we are all human and being kind and serving each other is paramount!
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