ABOUT TINA – Tina Sprinkle

Meet with Tina Sprinkle.

I’ve been in the health and fitness business for nearly forty years. I began teaching aerobics in my living room, church basements, apartment complexes, and women’s spas, before opening my own studio, and after the birth of my son, moving to manage a major health club. I’ve owned multiple businesses, worked as a TV health correspondent, married three times, and given birth to three amazing sons.

As a younger woman, I worked non-stop because I was driven.

Driven to provide for my sons, driven to prove myself at work, driven to please my current partner, driven to look a certain way.

But no matter how hard I worked, it was never enough to calm the quiet certainty that I was lacking- that I was not quite enough. I felt like a fake and I also felt ashamed.

Ironically, through work, I also discovered that I wasn’t alone. I heard the same story in some form or another from countless other women. It didn’t matter if she was young or old, rich or poor, retired or working, single, married, the underlying theme in all our stories was the same: we were not okay.

My healing began with a swift kick. A sudden realization, a sick but undeniable knowing: I was waiting for permission to live my life.

It was hard to admit that I not only needed but demanded constant validation of my worth, choices, and right to exist. I insisted on giving away my power, then blamed others for my fear and lack of direction. I felt abandoned, and I was.

I’d left myself a long time ago.

Fear is a greedy bastard. It promises safety in exchange for control. The longer it lives within you, the more power you give it. Fear is damn smart. It knows what you long for and takes them for ransom. After a while you get so used to its presence, you don’t realize you’re lost. Fear doesn’t allow imagination, creativity, freedom. Fear lies to us and tells us we’re not worthy of our dreams.

~ Tina Sprinkle, CEO Life Coaching ~

Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.

Body obsession, restriction, and rigidity don’t soothe our insecurities; they propagate them

By examining and letting go of belief systems I’d adopted as a child, I was able to start the process of healing. And when I say process, that’s exactly what I mean. It’s not something I’ve achieved, but something I must practice.