My name is Jay Deutsch. I am a solo father of two and a self-love and mindset coach. As a child of divorce, I suffered from abandonment issues and rejection issues all my life.
After the lengthy and painful divorce of my parents I bounced back and forth from living with my mother and my father & stepmom. It was rough. I went away to college hoping to change my life and get away from the drama.
I attended Northeastern University where I studied Visual Media Design with the hopes of becoming a graphic designer. It was there where I met my children's mother Larissa. It was love at first sight. We were inseparable. We were together for 26 years and had 2 amazing kids.
Larissa suffered from depression and other un-diagnosed mental health issues most of her life. It was rough living with someone who suffered mental health issues. I did not know exactly what that meant until she lost the battle with her mind and ended her life in 2015 leaving me with our 3 and 13 year old children.
I struggled on as a solo parent, I smiled on the outside but was dead on the inside. I didn't date, I drank a lot, I smoked a lot of weed, and I kept on going, for my kids. I got them the help they needed but didn’t believe I was capable of being helped, I was helpless and hopeless.
After four and a half years of living with the guilt and grief, hating myself and my life, everything changed. This was about the same time that COVID hit and I lost my job.
This intense emotional experience I was having forced everything I had been avoiding to the surface. All of my childhood traumas, the grief, another break-up, losing my job... It sent me into another downward spiral. They call it “dark night of the soul”.
I started my transformation. I began reading and researching, learning and unlearning, and also practicing my new found spirituality. Everything I thought I was changed. I was finally able to face the past, feel the emotions I was avoiding, and release the hold they had on me in the present.
I began my journey back to loving myself and my life. By learning to change my mindset and my level of self awareness, my life was transformed. I learned to accept what is and to be mindful and present.
Once this shift in mindset took place, I was able to have a completely different outlook on life in general. I discovered that my calling in life is to help others so I began my training to become a coach. I also began research in neuroscience and biology to learn how and why thoughts happen and how they affect the mind and body.
I am now certified in coaching and in NLP (Neuro Linguistics Programming).
As a self love & mindset coach I help those that have lost someone to get though their grief by understanding why they feel the way they do and how to once again find happiness.
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