Hi, I’m Amber Renee Cummings!

There are a lot of coaches out there. So what makes me different and uniquely qualified to offer mental freedom coaching? 

I have firsthand experience. I have lived the journey of going from mental health disaster to joyfully living mentally free.

Anorexia first landed me in a doctor’s office at the venerable age of 12. I was told I had inherited the family crazy and would need to be medicated for life. I believed I was broken so I lived the life of a crazy person.

I was an alcoholic and a smoker, had abusive disaster relationships, struggled with an eating disorder, had hyperventilating panic attacks, was in and out of the hospital and miraculously survived two suicide attempts. I understand what deep mental and emotional suffering feels like. 

It was after my second suicide attempt, at age 34, that I thought: these drugs are obviously not working! All of my worst mental health meltdowns have happened while heavily medicated! My heart said there just has to be another way. 

Yoga was my healing gateway. It taught me to breathe, it helped me to connect to my body and regulate my nervous system.

It was in a yoga class that the message of self-love finally stuck and I vowed to start taking care of my own self. That moment changed my whole life! I began swapping happy hour for the gym. I began contemplating what I actually wanted and needed out of life instead of just following my societal programing. 

Eventually I quit the corporate job I hated and went off to search the world for healing. I began chanting mantras in Bali. I took a yearlong intensive shamanism course and learned to face my shadow in Mexico City. That’s where I stayed, and that’s when I was finally strong enough to detox off my own cocktail of drugs. 

When I did drug detox I had been taking Klonopin, a Benzodiazepine tranquilizer, daily for 18 years. I was also on Lamictal, a mood stabilizer + Wellbutrin, an antidepressant.

I did NOT do detox smart. I went off my drugs way too fast and experienced severe withdrawal symptoms. My bones hurt, I was critically dizzy, I didn’t have my period for months. And you know what? I’d do it again in a heartbeat. Getting off drugs FREED ME! That said, I do not want your detox to be as awful as mine, and it 100% doesn’t have to be. 

The pain of my own mental freedom process has been a major motivator for starting this company.

I want you to go through this process supported in a loving container. I want to teach you all the things I had to learn the hard way so you don’t have to wander all over the world looking for answers! I want you to work with a doctor so that you get good taper advice and don’t have awful physical withdrawal pain.

I want you to have someone to talk to who GETS IT. 

Since my psych drug detox I have continued to grow strong! It was tragedy that showed me that I am truly healed.

Because that’s the test. It’s easy to be luminous when life gives you roses. It’s when the shit hits the fan that you see what you’re really made of. 

I had a very difficult pregnancy that resulted in a miscarriage. My partner left me three days later. It was a LOT of loss all at once and I was devastated. There is an old version of Amber who would have crumbled. But I am NOT that version of Amber anymore! I saw a completely new side of myself emerge. 

I leaned into loss instead of fighting life. I practiced every damn thing I preach.

I gave myself time to grieve, I sat in the void. I moved my body, I meditated, chanted, prayed, breathed, tapped and communed with the divine. As a result, I managed to weather that storm and emerge more powerful. Instead of having tragedy break me, it opened my heart, illuminated my mind and fortified my life’s purpose. 

I want this for you too. I want you to be able to do life sane, present and joyful. I want you to be able to weather whatever comes your way with grace and strength!

We cannot control the universe, but we can control what we choose to do with the package life hands us. Let’s figure out how you can live YOUR personal package in the most flowing, magical, maximum enjoyment way possible! THAT is what we do together in coaching.