Written by Robyn Alley-Hay, MD

Dr. Robyn Alley-Hay’s wake-up call happened 10 years ago. After the divorce, she was living between Montana, where her kids lived, and Illinois, where she worked. She discovered her son was battling an addiction to drugs and alcohol, so she left her job to be closer to him and her other kids.

To clear her contract, she had to declare bankruptcy. In her own words, “I had pretty much f*cked up my life.” She had been putting her heart and soul into her work as a clinical physician for 25 years, and now she felt totally destroyed by it. She was completely at sea, and she didn’t know where to turn. She knew it was time to make some serious changes when a longtime friend and ED doctor took one look at her and told her, “You need resuscitation.”

This is when she found coaching. After working with her own coach for a while and seeing its transformative power in action in her own life, Dr. Alley-Hay decided to train as a coach herself. She wanted to help her colleagues who were going through hardship. While she trained, she returned to locum practice. Fast-forward to today.

Dr. Alley-Hay is now an international women’s empowerment coach, author, speaker, educator, and longtime feminist who is committed to helping women master their inner power and vision, taking them from anxious to powerful.

At the invitation and special blessing of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Dr. Alley-Hay started a cervical cancer screening clinic in 2016 and continues to provide medical education and training to the local indigenous healers and midwives. The way she puts it: “I receive so much more than I give.”

As well as being a certified life coach, Dr. Alley-Hay is a master of Reiki, meditation, and mindfulness, and this has led her to embrace a holistic approach to medicine and a compassionate coaching style. She spends time every summer working with a non-profit organization that travels to the isolated lands of Tibetan Buddhists in the northern Himalayas. She explains that the premise behind coaching with compassion is to use Intentional Change Theory (ICT) to create a psychophysiological state of positivity.

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