008 Bobbi Parish tells her story of overcoming sexual abuse and mental illness and ultimately founding the International Association Of Trauma Recovery Coaching

Bobbi opens up and talks her the traumatic sexual abuse she suffered as a child, her lifelong battle with mental illness, and why she founded the International Association of Trauma Recovery Coaching and pioneered the field of Trauma Recovery Coaching.  

 

Bobbis Bio:

Bobbi Parish is a Trauma Recovery Coach and the Executive Director of the the International Association of Trauma Recovery Coaching. She endured years of childhood abuse that led to severe mental illness. After moving through homelessness and seven psychiatric ward hospitalizations Bobbi wanted to create a recovery model that better supported people who had endured trauma. She pioneered the field of Trauma Recovery Coaching and set up the first certification program in the world. Today she teaches 100's of students how to be high quality, trauma informed coaches. She and her wife Sarah are parents to three teenagers and split their time between Fort Worth, Texas and Bristol in the United Kingdom.