Shameless Leadership

352: Kim Strobel: Surviving and Thriving After Living With Panic Disorder


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Kim Strobel is a teacher, a consultant, a speaker, a happiness coach, and an aspiring author. But her personal life is just as full. When she’s not firing up educators with her signature mix of excitement and experience, she’s a die-hard runner, an advocate for her community’s abandoned animals, and a family-oriented gal who loves spending time with her husband Scott, their four children, two grandkids, and three pups.

It’s tempting to believe that the Chief Happiness Officer herself has never known a down day. But the truth is, sometimes you have to live through darkness before you can thrive in the light.

Kim spent her childhood and teen and young adult years dealing with panic attacks and crippling fear. Diagnosis of a seizure disorder and full panic disorder followed and with them a burgeoning fear that she would never be able to achieve her dreams. 

Listen in to hear how Kim overcame her crippling panic disorder and what her life looks like today - as a Happiness Coach, who is not immune to panic attack relapses.

Listen in to hear Kim share:

  • How she endured 8 years living with panic disorder, having 25 panic attacks a day at times
  • How medical intervention and CBD therapy saved her life
  • How to retrain your brain toward happiness
  • 50% of your long term happiness is genetic, 10% is external circumstances, 40% is self-controlled/self-managed
  • Top 5 happiness habits
  • What your kids are really see when you show up imperfectly
  • Links Mentioned:

    • Connect with Kim
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    • Instagram
    • Deepak Chopra Ananda meditation app
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