Finding Freedom

Overthinking is something most of us do and in this episode, Dawn explores why this is, when it’s unhelpful and how we can deal with it when it begins to cause us anxiety.

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• There can be many triggers to overthinking, but for many, it is triggered when we get something wrong.
• Life is full of times when we get things wrong, we can’t stop this but what we can do is reframe it and learn to let go, of the shame, the embarrassment, and the anxiety.
• Don’t let overthinking win and make your life smaller.

BEST MOMENTS 

“We’re all human, sometimes we will mess up”

“The most important lesson is not to stop experimenting, not stop exploring, not to stop going outside of your comfort zone”

VALUABLE RESOURCES

If you would like to experience hypnotherapy, please click the link below to book a taster session. The charge will be refunded against any therapy session or product download from Dawn’s website.

https://calendly.com/dkmtherapy/hypnotherapy-taster-session

CONTACT METHOD
Finding Freedom Facebook Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/5046568725414144/)

Email Dawn ([email protected])

ABOUT THE HOST

Dawn Morgan

Dawn is a hypnotherapist and resilience coach, trainer, mentor and business owner. Dawn has experienced trauma, terrorist attacks, divorce, being a single parent on benefits, redundancy (more than once) relationship breakdowns... and a whole lot more; and she has always bounced back. Dawn believes that life is for living and we can learn about ourselves from everything we experience, good or bad. We can take those experiences and use them to grow, or use them to shrink... our choice. Dawn chose growth and thinks you should too.

We all have everything we need within us; hope, resilience, compassion, wisdom, confidence; Dawn’s mission is to help you uncover yours!

Dawn has been decluttering and organising her home and it made her think about the impact the lack of organisation had been having on her anxiety. It reminded her that sometimes we don’t always realise that anxiety is showing up. Listen into this episode to hear her journey to realisation and why decluttering and organisation can help relieve your own anxiety.

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• After moving, Dawn realised that a lot of the things she had accumulated she didn’t need.
• Dawn didn’t realise at the time, but she was experiencing anxiety around the lack of organisation in her new home.
• Sometimes our brains punish us if we aren’t productive enough, even when they aren’t important tasks.
• There are debates and opinions about absolutely everything in life, we innately want answers and want to learn but sometimes it’s not helpful and it’s ok to just let things be as they are.
• Decluttering any space can bring you a sense of calm and relieve your anxiety.

BEST MOMENTS 

“I just felt this wave of relaxation come over me”

“The dialogue in my head has a heated argument with itself…my mind was arguing both sides”

“Having a really peaceful living space is a good thing”

VALUABLE RESOURCES

If you would like to experience hypnotherapy, please click the link below to book a taster session. The charge will be refunded against any therapy session or product download from Dawn’s website.

https://calendly.com/dkmtherapy/hypnotherapy-taster-session

CONTACT METHOD
Finding Freedom Facebook Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/5046568725414144/)

Email Dawn ([email protected])

ABOUT THE HOST

Dawn Morgan

Dawn is a hypnotherapist and resilience coach, trainer, mentor and business owner. Dawn has experienced trauma, terrorist attacks, divorce, being a single parent on benefits, redundancy (more than once) relationship breakdowns... and a whole lot more; and she has always bounced back. Dawn believes that life is for living and we can learn about ourselves from everything we experience, good or bad. We can take those experiences and use them to grow, or use them to shrink... our choice. Dawn chose growth and thinks you should too.

We all have everything we need within us; hope, resilience, compassion, wisdom, confidence; Dawn’s mission is to help you uncover yours!

What has changed in our lives, what have we let go of? Do we even want things to be the same as before? Dawn discusses these questions and more about life after covid.

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• We experience life changing all the time, through different decades and also through things such as moving house or changing job. The difference with covid is the pace at which things changed; it was all incredibly fast.
• Change can bring with it a sense of not being in control, a sense of uncertainty. Both of which can end up in feelings of anxiety.
• People have adapted to a new way of life, they found different ways to spend their time, focusing on things they could do rather than the things we were restricted.
  
  

BEST MOMENTS 

“We can choose to embrace the change, or we can wallow in the difficulty it brings”

“I learnt to adapt to a new way of living, my priority shifted to other things”

“Have we become more self-sufficient, mode media based, more insular?”

VALUABLE RESOURCES

If you would like to experience hypnotherapy, please click the link below to book a taster session. The charge will be refunded against any therapy session or product download from Dawn’s website.

https://calendly.com/dkmtherapy/hypnotherapy-taster-session

 
CONTACT METHOD
Finding Freedom Facebook Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/5046568725414144/)

Email Dawn ([email protected])

ABOUT THE HOST

Dawn Morgan

Dawn is a hypnotherapist and resilience coach, trainer, mentor and business owner. Dawn has experienced trauma, terrorist attacks, divorce, being a single parent on benefits, redundancy (more than once) relationship breakdowns... and a whole lot more; and she has always bounced back. Dawn believes that life is for living and we can learn about ourselves from everything we experience, good or bad. We can take those experiences and use them to grow, or use them to shrink... our choice. Dawn chose growth and thinks you should too.

We all have everything we need within us; hope, resilience, compassion, wisdom, confidence; Dawn’s mission is to help you uncover yours!

We all have choices to face in life, for those living with anxiety, these choices and decisions can be a real challenge. In this episode Dawn talks about why this is and what we can do to help combat these difficulties.

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• Anxiety is all about the what ifs, often over ‘risking’ situations, therefore making choices and decisions can be difficult.
• Almost everything we do in life carries risk, it’s simply not possible to remove or mitigate all risk.
• We can spend hours, days or even weeks procrastinating on decisions and choices, the fear of making the wrong choice prevents us from moving forward.
• Fill your life up with things you are passionate about. Create a list of things you want to and enjoy doing and choose something each day. Don’t overthink the decision and choice, just do it.

BEST MOMENTS 

“There is risk in almost everything we do”

“The fear of making the wrong choice keeps us stuck”

“We can waste so much time doing nothing productive”

VALUABLE RESOURCES

If you would like to experience hypnotherapy, please click the link below to book a taster session. The charge will be refunded against any therapy session or product download from Dawn’s website.

https://calendly.com/dkmtherapy/hypnotherapy-taster-session

CONTACT METHOD
Finding Freedom Facebook Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/5046568725414144/)

Email Dawn ([email protected])

ABOUT THE HOST

Dawn Morgan

Dawn is a hypnotherapist and resilience coach, trainer, mentor and business owner. Dawn has experienced trauma, terrorist attacks, divorce, being a single parent on benefits, redundancy (more than once) relationship breakdowns... and a whole lot more; and she has always bounced back. Dawn believes that life is for living and we can learn about ourselves from everything we experience, good or bad. We can take those experiences and use them to grow, or use them to shrink... our choice. Dawn chose growth and thinks you should too.

We all have everything we need within us; hope, resilience, compassion, wisdom, confidence; Dawn’s mission is to help you uncover yours!

Anxiety can show up in many situations and starting a new job can be a common one. In this episode Dawn gives examples from her own work life where anxiety has impacted her as well as the business she has worked for. She also talks about the causes behind workplace anxiety and what you can do as an individual to tackle it.

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• Experience and skill don’t necessarily help when trying to navigate a new job role. Each team and company are different and this can present anxiety when starting somewhere new.
• Many problems in the workplace start because of a lack of understanding when it comes to expectations, this in itself can be a root cause of anxiety.
• We all know that feelings aren’t helpful when it comes to decisions and life planning. Unfortunately high levels anxiety can take over logic and impact the way we behave at work.
• When suffering with anxiety at work, see if you can pinpoint the root cause and if you can, what can you do to change things?
• You can’t help thinking, it’s part of being human. But what we can do is ensure we talk to ourselves with positivity.

BEST MOMENTS 

“It’s only the well seasoned employer that will realise there is a time period for settling in”

“Any good leader will never rely on rank or superiority to get things done”

“No one or no thing can make you feel a particular way, only you can do that”

VALUABLE RESOURCES

If you would like to experience hypnotherapy, please click the link below to book a taster session. The charge will be refunded against any therapy session or product download from Dawn’s website.

https://calendly.com/dkmtherapy/hypnotherapy-taster-session

CONTACT METHOD
Finding Freedom Facebook Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/5046568725414144/)

Email Dawn ([email protected])

ABOUT THE HOST

Dawn Morgan

Dawn is a hypnotherapist and resilience coach, trainer, mentor and business owner. Dawn has experienced trauma, terrorist attacks, divorce, being a single parent on benefits, redundancy (more than once) relationship breakdowns... and a whole lot more; and she has always bounced back. Dawn believes that life is for living and we can learn about ourselves from everything we experience, good or bad. We can take those experiences and use them to grow, or use them to shrink... our choice. Dawn chose growth and thinks you should too.

We all have everything we need within us; hope, resilience, compassion, wisdom, confidence; Dawn’s mission is to help you uncover yours!

Are you sharing your wisdom, knowledge, and compassion with yourself just as much as you do with others? In this episode, Dawn explores the act of putting others first and what impact this can have on a persons self-esteem, confidence and levels of anxiety.

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• Many of us are taught that there is a hierarchy of importance when it comes to people. This can lead to us putting other people’s needs ahead of our own consistently throughout life.
• These expectations become so engrained in us that we subconsciously revert to them, particularly in times of difficulty.
• So much stress and anxiety can come from the internal conflict, between our instinct of wanting to care for others -vs- doing the right thing for ourselves.
• If you find yourself using the words should, would, could, take note and remind yourself that all these rules are just made up.
• The innate longing of wanting to belong, means our unconscious mind can trigger the fear response when we feel like we aren’t meeting expectations.

BEST MOMENTS 

“As women, many of us can feel the biological instinct to care for others, it’s built into our DNA”

“As long as you aren’t hurting anyone else you can live the way you want to”

“We can feel anxious about not meeting expectations”

“Quietly ask yourself, am I really in danger?”

VALUABLE RESOURCES

If you would like to experience hypnotherapy, please click the link below to book a taster session. The charge will be refunded against any therapy session or product download from Dawn’s website.

https://calendly.com/dkmtherapy/hypnotherapy-taster-session

CONTACT METHOD
Finding Freedom Facebook Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/5046568725414144/)

Email Dawn ([email protected])

ABOUT THE HOST

Dawn Morgan

Dawn is a hypnotherapist and resilience coach, trainer, mentor and business owner. Dawn has experienced trauma, terrorist attacks, divorce, being a single parent on benefits, redundancy (more than once) relationship breakdowns... and a whole lot more; and she has always bounced back. Dawn believes that life is for living and we can learn about ourselves from everything we experience, good or bad. We can take those experiences and use them to grow, or use them to shrink... our choice. Dawn chose growth and thinks you should too.

We all have everything we need within us; hope, resilience, compassion, wisdom, confidence; Dawn’s mission is to help you uncover yours!

Jessica Betancourt is a certified Transformational Life Coach and Hypnotherapist specialising in addiction transformation. From her own experience, she can relate to the feelings of having chronic anxiety and using substances, mostly alcohol and nicotine to self-medicate.

She joins Dawn in this episode to talk all about her own struggles, how she has been able to cure her addictions to alcohol and cigarettes using hypnotherapy, Neuro-linguistic Programming and meditation and how she now teaches other women how to do the same.

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• Jessica’s coping mechanisms for life were self-remedies such as drinking and smoking. She didn't realise it's impact until one day she realised it was something she simply didn't want to do anymore. She wanted to face her problems and find a long-term solution to feeling better.
• It’s not comfortable to admit you may have a problem and need help but when you do, it is an incredibly powerful thing to do.
• After starting hypnotherapy, Jessica was able to start tackling her self-limiting beliefs. She began to discover who she truly was and what choices she had.
• The anxiety-induced thoughts have never gone away for Jessica. But she has learnt how to understand those voices and parts of herself and overcome them.
• 'Distractions' to your anxiety and emotions isn’t a long term solution. This is why it’s important to explore what is behind these feelings and learn what fuels them.
• Having a supportive and safe space to explore and recognise your anxiety is really important.
• Jessica's advice for three simple things you can do to help with your anxiety is:
  Stop self-meditating and tell yourself the truth, assess how well you are taking care of yourself and pay attention to your own breathing.

BEST MOMENTS 

“I don’t think many people want to come out and say I have a problem, I need help with this”

“When we believe we are in a stuck state, of course we are never going to move anywhere”

“It does require some level of bravery and willingness to be uncomfortable for the short-term”

VALUABLE RESOURCES

If you would like to experience hypnotherapy, please click the link below to book a taster session. The charge will be refunded against any therapy session or product download from Dawn’s website.

https://calendly.com/dkmtherapy/hypnotherapy-taster-session

CONTACT METHOD
Finding Freedom Facebook Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/5046568725414144/)

Email Dawn ([email protected])

ABOUT THE GUEST

 Jessica Betancourt is a certified Transformational Life Coach and Rapid Transformational Hypnotherapist who specializes in working with women to heal from alcohol addiction.  She believes that negative habits are a symptom of a deeper lying issue and that in locating and healing the core cause of discomfort, pain, or trauma, a person can experience the most liberating freedom.  

Check out Jessica’s Podcast: The Mindful Drinking for Women Podcast 

Join her Facebook Group: Mindful Drinking for Women

Connect with her on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/blessedvida.hypnotherapy/

Jessica’s Programme: Mindful Drinking Sessions for Women 

ABOUT THE HOST

Dawn Morgan

Dawn is a hypnotherapist and resilience coach, trainer, mentor and business owner. Dawn has experienced trauma, terrorist attacks, divorce, being a single parent on benefits, redundancy (more than once) relationship breakdowns... and a whole lot more; and she has always bounced back. Dawn believes that life is for living and we can learn about ourselves from everything we experience, good or bad. We can take those experiences and use them to grow, or use them to shrink... our choice. Dawn chose growth and thinks you should too.

We all have everything we need within us; hope, resilience, compassion, wisdom, confidence; Dawn’s mission is to help you uncover yours!

The reason Dawn can talk about anxiety so much and help others is because she has first hand experience herself. In this episode, Dawn opens up about her own battles with anxiety and the strategies she uses to deal with it.

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• Dawn has been suffering with her anxiety lately, showing itself in the form of overwhelm.
• Deep sleep is important for organising your brain. If you aren’t getting adequate deep sleep then your brain struggles to process your day(s).
• Dawn always sees a correlation when she misses out on deep sleep and her anxiety presents itself.
• When Dawn is able to focus and get tasks done, she finds that her unhelpful anxiety is kept at bay. But as soon as she feels overwhelm, she struggles with my unhelpful anxiety and it can be a challenge for Dawn to get back on track.
• Self-talk and letting go helps Dawn deal with her feelings of unhelpful anxiety. She ensures she is talking herself down and creating language patterns that make herself feel worse.
• A plan and a gentle reminder that she can handle her lists, goals and tasks, helps Dawn feel more in control and less anxious. It allows her to re-focus.

BEST MOMENTS 

“I seem to have lost the ability to make a decision which is why I know my anxiety is in play”

“Which comes first? Is my lack of focus and decision making activating my unhelpful-anxiety or is my anxiety causing my lack of focus and decision making?”

“I can realise if i can increase my anxiety, I can also decrease it”

VALUABLE RESOURCES

If you would like to experience hypnotherapy, please click the link below to book a taster session. The charge will be refunded against any therapy session or product download from Dawn’s website.

https://calendly.com/dkmtherapy/hypnotherapy-taster-session

CONTACT METHOD
Finding Freedom Facebook Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/5046568725414144/)

Email Dawn ([email protected])

ABOUT THE HOST

Dawn Morgan

Dawn is a hypnotherapist and resilience coach, trainer, mentor and business owner. Dawn has experienced trauma, terrorist attacks, divorce, being a single parent on benefits, redundancy (more than once) relationship breakdowns... and a whole lot more; and she has always bounced back. Dawn believes that life is for living and we can learn about ourselves from everything we experience, good or bad. We can take those experiences and use them to grow, or use them to shrink... our choice. Dawn chose growth and thinks you should too.

We all have everything we need within us; hope, resilience, compassion, wisdom, confidence; Dawn’s mission is to help you uncover yours!

Do you live your life based on your feelings? How hard do you push past your feelings to truly get what you want? Listen in to this quick episode with Dawn to hear how and why your feelings are getting in the way of living the life you truly want.

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• We self-sabotage ourselves and longer term goals by simply doing what we feel like in the moment.
• Our minds still have our instinctual reactions in this modern world but these often no longer serves us.
• If you engage your conscious mind and remind yourself of the goals you have, you can push past your initial feelings that keep you stuck in familiarity.

BEST MOMENTS 

“When we rely on our feelings, we don’t get things done, we don’t move forward”

“You can release that break, or ignore it and grab the opportunity, say yes and do it”

VALUABLE RESOURCES

If you would like to experience hypnotherapy, please click the link below to book a taster session. The charge will be refunded against any therapy session or product download from Dawn’s website.

https://calendly.com/dkmtherapy/hypnotherapy-taster-session

CONTACT METHOD
Finding Freedom Facebook Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/5046568725414144/)

Email Dawn ([email protected])

ABOUT THE HOST

Dawn Morgan

Dawn is a hypnotherapist and resilience coach, trainer, mentor and business owner. Dawn has experienced trauma, terrorist attacks, divorce, being a single parent on benefits, redundancy (more than once) relationship breakdowns... and a whole lot more; and she has always bounced back. Dawn believes that life is for living and we can learn about ourselves from everything we experience, good or bad. We can take those experiences and use them to grow, or use them to shrink... our choice. Dawn chose growth and thinks you should too.

We all have everything we need within us; hope, resilience, compassion, wisdom, confidence; Dawn’s mission is to help you uncover yours!

Many people feel unheard and the rules around communication in our early lives can contribute to this. As children we learn how to express ourselves, what the right boundaries are and when to stick up for ourselves, this is also where our communication styles are developed. 

In this episode, Dawn talks about the importance of communication, how this is developed in early life, the impact it has on relationships and how sometimes sharing can be detrimental to a situation.

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• In relationships, communication plays a vital role. How each partner communicates impacts the health of the relationship. 

• Setting out our expectations, values and beliefs is incredibly important and is often thought about at the start of a relationship. Yet, there are many smaller things that aren’t discussed, such as communication styles.

• If we don’t think about how the other person likes to communicate or what it is they need from an interaction it can have dire consequences for both parties.

• Sometimes sharing isn’t productive or helpful to a situation or relationship. An individuals need to communicate and share can mean they say things they don’t mean or they can’t take back. Emotions can sometimes take over. These situations can create misunderstandings and conflicts in relationships.

• Our feelings are unreliable, they depend on our moods, experiences and our environment. They can change and be impacted so easily and quickly. 

• All communication has an expectation of something in return. This can vary from person to person and from situation to situation. But these expectations matter.

• Before sharing ask yourself, is it truthful for everyone, is it ‘good’, and is it useful to either you or the other person?

BEST MOMENTS 

“Expressing opinions, especially extreme ones, can be a way of pushing people away”

“People are not digital, they’re analogue. We are not one thing or the other, we are a mix”

“She would interpret his lack of communication as lack of caring”

“We always communicate to expect something in return"

VALUABLE RESOURCES

If you would like to experience hypnotherapy, please click the link below to book a taster session. The charge will be refunded against any therapy session or product download from Dawn’s website.

https://calendly.com/dkmtherapy/hypnotherapy-taster-session

CONTACT METHOD
Finding Freedom Facebook Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/5046568725414144/)

Email Dawn ([email protected])

ABOUT THE HOST

Dawn Morgan

Dawn is a hypnotherapist and resilience coach, trainer, mentor and business owner. Dawn has experienced trauma, terrorist attacks, divorce, being a single parent on benefits, redundancy (more than once) relationship breakdowns... and a whole lot more; and she has always bounced back. Dawn believes that life is for living and we can learn about ourselves from everything we experience, good or bad. We can take those experiences and use them to grow, or use them to shrink... our choice. Dawn chose growth and thinks you should too.

We all have everything we need within us; hope, resilience, compassion, wisdom, confidence; Dawn’s mission is to help you uncover yours!