About Alison Whiteacre

My name is Alison Whiteacre. I am an authentic, enthusiastic, intimate, playful, creative, transgender, polyamorous, gender-fluid, diabetic, nonjudgemental, flawed, self-accepting, parent, daughter, wife and coach. 

This list is true of me here and now and learning to love all these parts of myself  has been a continuous process. My story is as tumultuous and flawed as each of ours and I am privileged to be in a place where I can help you understand and embrace yours.

As recent as seven years ago I was burnt out, lost, and broken, staring at the results of a successful thirty five year career in music and feeling completely miserable. What had been my purpose for living for so many years now filled me with anxiety and sadness. What had led me to this place? 

I was burned-out, resentful, and finally, I was breaking. Something HAD to change!

My career in music flowed from the passionate pursuit of beauty, fame and fortune. I composed, performed, and produced music at an exhausting pace for decades; a glorious but often unfulfilling battle I fought in tandem with burnout, addiction, parenthood, and partnership.

Limiting beliefs, false assumptions, and a years-long stream of negative self-talk had poisoned my understanding of myself and what my life could be. I was as low as a person could be and I reached out for help. 

Coaching saved my life and got me back on track!

Coaches and therapists helped me to regain control of my life. They mentored me through fundamental changes in how I understood and moved through life and enabled me to proudly come out, to myself and to the world, as polyamorous, pansexual, and transgender. This period of deep introspection led me to understand the parts of myself that I had been repressing and facilitated the realization that identity in general and gender identity specifically had been contributing to my feeling so lost in myself. 

I was determined to learn the professional practice of the same skills that had helped me so radically, leading me to enroll in coach training at the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC). My vision became to help people understand what they want to achieve with their one precious life and to set them to building those castles in the air. With a lifetime of wild experiences to avail myself of, and a newfound love of life, I feel that I can authentically say that I have been to terrible places and have crawled out of them a more robust and empowered person. Coaching saved my life and I am driven to help you transform yours.