by: Amanda O'Mara
Amanda and her husband experienced shock after losing their dream home and belongings to a wildfire that ripped through their community, killing two people. She states it’s an odd feeling to have a roof over your head one day and the next day not have one.
What do you do after you literally lose everything?
When you have nowhere to go or jackets to keep you warm, you naturally go into survival mode. Quickly the couple learned to accept help from others when it came to money, shelter, and clothing. They fully credit their friends and community for keeping them on their feet when all hope felt lost.
Sometimes, O’Mara remembers something she long loved and lost. “As long as we make it out alive, the rest is just stuff,” she says. “But then when you go through it you realize, wow, some of those things were your dog’s ashes or jewelry handed down from your grandmother after many generations.” You simply can’t replace those or put a price tag on that.
You keep things to remember the past. Items hold sentimental value. The home for them symbolized years of hard work and a place of solitude. It’s part of who you are or your identity. “When you experience such a large loss, it’s like a piece of you died in the fire too,” she quotes.
Grieving a home full of memories and meaning is a process. And the loss didn’t end there for O’Mara…
Since it was during Covid, building costs skyrocketed, leaving them hundreds of thousands of dollars underinsured. And O’Mara’s business completely fell apart. Amanda ran a business helping online health and fitness professionals build an online business from the ground up. This type of work takes a lot of mental strength.
“I was struggling coaching my clients when I was having daily panic attacks,” she says. “How can I coach when I can barely take care of myself?”
She paid the last of what she had in her bank account to her team member to finish coaching her current clients. She was in survival mode for months to follow until she finally settled into a comfortable replacement home to begin rebuilding not just her home but her mindset as well.
“The first thing I bought after the fire was a journal from Target. I knew if I wanted to have the strength to keep going, I had to go inward first.”
“Every single day I would start by listing as many things I was grateful for. When you do this you will learn how truly amazing and fortunate we are. It could be as simple as the toes on your feet or the stars in the sky…there is still SO much to be grateful for.” She credits most of her comeback by a simple daily gratitude practice.
She also did EMDR therapy, plant medicine, and lots of energy healing work with spiritual leaders.
Day by day, her strength came back both physically and mentally. She and her husband rebuilt their home themselves one nail at a time. She also re-launched her business which came back tenfold.
She now has an incredible team who are all on a mission to help as many health and fitness professionals build their own business online to impact the masses by helping them with their health and fitness transformations.
O’Mara isn’t stopping there either. She plans to build other similar businesses that will help others heal and grow using a variety of energy healing modalities.
She believes this work will create a ripple effect all around the world by helping others to let go of trauma, heal from chronic and mental illnesses, and grow by helping each person see their true potential and purpose in life.
“With intention and willingness, I truly believe the bandaid on the world can finally be ripped off so people can breathe a breath of fresh air and love and light can shine brighter with each and every individual,” says Amanda. WEB: www.amandaomara.com
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