Finding Freedom

Choose your hard, an expression that Dawn and many of us have heard a lot. But what does it mean? Listen into this solo episode of Overcoming Anxiety, where Dawn talks all about this expression, how it relates to anxiety and why making a plan means the choices we make become easier.

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• Many of us imagine and dream of a life we could live if we made some changes. Yet we seldom actually make those changes. Anxiety is no different, we often know what we would need to do to help with our anxiety but actually doing those things can be the biggest challenge.
• If we can manage to step outside of ourselves and do the work needed to help manage and alleviate our anxiety then we can start to build a better mindset and life. Making changes is hard, but so is living with anxiety, which hard will you choose?
• Choosing to do something different can be scary. But you can help yourself by putting a plan in place, by doing the changes in steps. When we know what we want to do and where we want to be, the choices we need to make become easier.

BEST MOMENTS 

“Instead we choose the hard and we remain stuck”

“Choosing something different is scary”

“If we have a plan our choices become easier”

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!

This is the sixth in a series of interviews with people who have suffered and dealt with anxiety in their own way. Many people have used a mixture of therapies and medication and have insights into the way they have dealt with and overcome many of the challenges associated with anxiety and depression.

Their stories help to show the vast range of circumstances where anxiety shows up and gives us all hope that our lives can be better in the future. 

These are their stories, and you are free to take from them whatever you wish. Dawn is not a doctor or psychologist and therefore please consult your own medical practitioners before taking any action with regards to medication.

Richard is a multi-award winning entrepreneur, public speaker, mentor, trainer and coach who is renowned for both his results and sense of humour. In this episode, he talks to Dawn all about his own journey with anxiety, why change is a big catalyst in anxiety and the power of mindset.

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• A move across the country as a child impacted Richard quite significantly. He was seen as different and suffered both verbal and physical bullying. When he was offered a job at just the age of 11 he jumped at the chance. He simply worked hard and this led to more opportunities. He liked the fact that he was treated well and respected and this was the biggest thing for him
• After leaving school at 16, Richard joined the construction industry. He did well as was an MD at just 30. But the recession came along and it hit construction companies hard. He had to tell 300 people they no longer had a job and it left him feeling like a failure, gave him panic attacks and started to suffer from severe anxiety.
• Change can bring up anxiety for a lot of people. Especially if it is something that alters your identity, such as becoming a mother or changing career.
• When you are in the midst of anxiety, it’s incredibly hard to see a way out. The anxiety can feel comforting, you often need support from those around you to see a way out.
• Evaluate your relationships and those around you, are they feeding your anxiety?
• Think of thoughts like fish in a river. You just ‘catch’ or ‘choose’ one, don’t worry about all the other fish.
• Get out of your own way. Most people don’t achieve because they are stopping themselves.

BEST MOMENTS 

“Sometimes in life you have these moments of serendipity”

“So much of my identity was wrapped up in what I did as a job”

“Just because a thought enters your head, that’s it, it’s just a thought”

“Listen to the stories you tell yourself”

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

Richard Stone

Richard is a Multi Award Winning Entrepreneur, Chartered Construction Manager, Public Speaker, Mentor Trainer & Coach who is renowned for both his results and sense of humour.

His experience in business, construction, leadership, and management spans numerous decades, and as a former Supplier of the Year for numerous years his knowledge extends way beyond just construction and property, and he is also particularly passionate about personal development and bringing awareness to taboo subjects through public speaking and his podcast. 

He also works with others to minimise risk and maximise their project & business profits and is highly regarded for his ability to dispense insightful no-nonsense advice as well as for his huge work ethic and commitment to his own and others personal development, indeed he can often to found on Zoom at 5am on coaching calls with business owners, or filming sites with drones to mitigate risk through thorough logistic planning activities.

Having delivered 1,000’s of projects valued well over £100 million over the years across MOD, Retail Commercial & Residential sectors Richard is also a much-respected Contractor, Mentor & Coach, and a sought-after public speaker. 

https://linktr.ee/richardstone

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 often tolerate, compromise and accept without exception and in this episode Dawn explores why. She discusses the values and concepts of tolerance, compromise and acceptance and their original meanings, how holding them as values affects your daily life and how they can impact your anxiety.

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• To be tolerant is to recognise and respect the belief, rights and practices of others.
• Compromising can be important in relationships and in some areas of life such as work. However, it’s important we don’t compromise to much that we jeopardise our own values.
• If you tolerate, compromise and accept too much it impacts you negatively. You have to learn to have the right balance and become aligned with yourself. Your thoughts, actions and boundaries must be aligned and respected by both yourself and others.
• There are lots of things in life you can’t control so you must focus on the things you can. Choose what to tolerate, when it’s right to compromise and if you should accept. Don’t just do these things without thinking, make conscious decisions.

BEST MOMENTS 

“I’ve been expected to be tolerant, compromise and accept, but is this right?”

“When does compromise become too much, when are we giving to much?”

“I was compromising to keep the peace”

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!

This is the fifth in a series of interviews with people who have suffered and dealt with anxiety in their own way. Many people have used a mixture of therapies and medication and have insights into the way they have dealt with and overcome many of the challenges associated with anxiety and depression.

Their stories help to show the vast range of circumstances where anxiety shows up and gives us all hope that our lives can be better in the future. 

These are their stories, and you are free to take from them whatever you wish. Dawn is not a doctor or psychologist and therefore please consult your own medical practitioners before taking any action with regards to medication.

Trigger warnings: sexual assault, mental abuse as a child, alcoholism, drug use, anxiety, suicidal thoughts/ideation, self-harm

Hallie is the owner and founder of Healing with Hallie. She’s Arizona’s number one Transformational Alchemist. Changing women’s lives into gold. At Healing with Hallie, she helps women gain clarity and confidence in their lives by addressing and healing the root causes rather than just focusing on the symptoms. When you feel mentally heathy everything is easier. Having dealt with anxiety and depression herself, she understands what it takes to change your mindset and gain back the incredible confidence we were born with.

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• Hallie is an acclaimed published author. Her book, Beauty in The Pain, helps people not only cope, but thrive alongside chronic pain.

• Hallie’s mother was an alcoholic, at first Hallie was too young to really understand what was happening but she knew it wasn’t right, she was so young but was having to take care of her mom. She would also find herself trying to anticipate her mother’s moods, being on edge like this is what started her anxiety.
• At age 12 she began to rebel. She was always trying to escape her feelings of anxiety and was seeking escapism from her life. This started with alcohol and moved onto drugs.
• If at this young age, Hallie has been told that her feelings of anger and anxiety were normal she would have been able to understand and process her feelings. Instead she tried on different ‘roles’ to gain attention. Through trial and error she realised that rebelling was the only thing that got her the attention she craved.
• Hallie’s parents didn’t know how to manage her rebellion and at just 13 years of age she went into psychiatric help. At first it helped, but she then started to try harder drugs and things went downhill. Hallie and her parents tried a variety of methods to get her help including a wilderness programme and a therapeutic boarding school but nothing worked.
• After graduating, Hallie became emancipated from her parents and moved to California. She went back to alcohol as she hadn’t learnt any health tools to dealing with her problems. She started to discover that she loved to travel and meet people. She then began to invest in her mental health and started to look at the root cause of her problems so she could begin to heal.
• Although Hallie found and still finds talk therapy helpful for processing feelings she didn’t’ find it actually helped solve or deal with her problems. She found the same with medication, yes she felt less but she also felt numb.
• Hallie found hypnosis and it changed her life. Guided visual meditations showed her what calm truly was. Hypnosis has allowed Hallie to take control over both her mind and her body.

BEST MOMENTS 

“No adult in my life ever explained to me what I was feeling was normal and it was ok”

“You feel isolated and you feel like you’re not normal”

“I didn’t enjoy taking a bunch of meds, I hated that”

“That hum is gone, I feel pure calmness. Ever since that moment I have been chasing it ever since”

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

Hallie Thompson

Hallie is the owner and founder of Healing with Hallie. She’s Arizona’s number one Transformational Alchemist. Changing women’s lives into gold. At Healing with Hallie, she helps women gain clarity and confidence in their lives by addressing and healing the root causes rather than just focusing on the symptoms. When you feel mentally heathy everything is easier. Having dealt with anxiety and depression herself, she understands what it takes to change your mindset and gain back the incredible confidence we were born with. Her website is healingwithhallie.com and you can follow her on Instagram and Facebook. 

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!

Destination is defined as being the end of a journey, it’s about the end point. For many years Dawn’s anxiety was centered around ‘destinations’, to getting to an end point, to a goal, to whatever she was focused on or striving for. Listen in to this episode to hear how she managed to overcome this mindset, what she does and instead and what you can do to start living a happier life in the present.

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• Each destination Dawn was waiting for gave some relief when she reached it, but it never lasted.
• Many of us spend so much time focusing and waiting for these different destinations that we forget to live in the present. But what if we decided to truly live every day as our last. Everyone would see things differently.
• When we live in the present we notice the things happening around us and focus on very different elements of our days and our lives.
• We do need to plan in life, we can’t leave everything to chance. However, we can change habits to more consciously be in the present. We can learn a lot from babies and children, they are always in the present.

BEST MOMENTS 

“We are so caught up in where we are going that we stop living in the now”

“We have things in our lives that wouldn’t matter if we were living the last day of our lives”

“What activity do you do that you truly notice?”

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!

This is the fourth in a series of interviews with people who have suffered and dealt with anxiety in their own way. Many people have used a mixture of therapies and medication and have insights into the way they have dealt with and overcome many of the challenges associated with anxiety and depression.

Their stories help to show the vast range of circumstances where anxiety shows up and gives us all hope that our lives can be better in the future. 

These are their stories, and you are free to take from them whatever you wish. Dawn is not a doctor or psychologist and therefore please consult your own medical practitioners before taking any action with regards to medication.

For the last 15 years Libbie Walsh has been helping other people with their lives whilst she develops her own understanding of her own trauma and anxiety. In this episode, she talks to Dawn all about the trauma she suffered as a child including the narcissistic abuse from her mother and how she came to the decision to go on her own journey of self-discovery and healing from her past.

Libbie is an accredited Narcissistic Abuse specialist, A Brain spotting Practitioner, a Holistic Therapist, Coach, Author and is a certified hypnotherapist.  She has worked in a variety of clinical settings over the last 15 years with clients and patients alike, providing emotional and physical healing from the effects of abusive relationships, including anxiety depression, PTSD, and Trauma through mind-body healing therapies. she has received several accolades in her Holistic Therapy, and Eastern Healing modalities, and continues her professional development in working with Trauma, and the after-effects of Narcissistic abuse.

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• Libbie has spent many years trying to break down and discover what has caused her anxiety. She did research into why she felt the way she often did and what caused her responses to certain situations. She discovered that the traumatic event of her sister dying, when Libbie was just 3 years old was the start of this, as well as having to deal with the death of her sister it is when her parents started to abuse her too.

• The relationship with her mother was particularly bad, which only seemed to get worse the older Libbie got. She was frequently taken into care but would always be sent home.

• Libbie didn’t feel loved, looked after or needed. She was suffering at home and at school too. She became consumed by her own trauma and difficulties. It wasn’t until she got older and realised that she needed to look into her past to see what she needed deal with and uncover to then create healing and change for herself.  

• As Libby started learning about trauma, narcissism and psychology she discovered that there were many narcissistic traits within her mother and that these probably stemmed from her mothers own trauma.

• So many people look outside of themselves to fix themselves. This is something Dawn calls ‘outsourcing your wellbeing’ but this is never a real or long-term fix and can actually create more problems than it solves.

• If we can see healing as a journey and not a destination, focusing on what we want our life to become we can begin to find peace and love within ourselves.

BEST MOMENTS 

“When we call it our anxiety we own it”

 “Unless we know our own psychology we can’t actually piece that together, understand it or step outside of our behaviour to see the cause of it”

“I still felt there was a part of me that was just dying to get out”

“Healing form such abuse is a journey, it’s certainly not a destination”

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

Libbie Walsh is an accredited Narcissistic Abuse specialist, A Brain spotting Practitioner, a Holistic Therapist, Coach, Author and is a certified hypnotherapist.  She has worked in a variety of clinical settings over the last 15 years with clients and patients alike, providing emotional and physical healing from the effects of abusive relationships, including anxiety depression, PTSD, and Trauma through mind-body healing therapies. she has received several accolades in her Holistic Therapy, and Eastern Healing modalities, and continues her professional development in working with Trauma, and the after-effects of Narcissistic abuse.

Libbie has a special interest in mental health, and Relationships including  PTSD, Trauma, and anxiety disorders, having dealt with all three from childhood, and narcissistic abuse herself in several relationships. As an unconfident child, teen, and young adult She struggled with self-sabotage and self-harm, and never felt good enough.  Through her own transformational journey, She became her own driving force, in discovering that mental health that is out of balance, and continuous stress and Trauma on the nervous system, affect not only emotional health but also the physiology of the body,  presenting itself through illness and disease.  Facing her own mortality twice, She became an advocate for teaching people how our awareness and ability to change our lives is often completely overlooked and avoided due to living in our own perceptions of ourselves.  How we then create who we are, due to childhood adversities including bullying, trauma, abuse, etc.  It's not until later in life that when we find the courage, and the ability to change those perceptions, and when we realise we can, we then see no limits to what we can achieve in our health, and our lives.

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 grew up in the wet county of Devon, people who live in Devon accept rain as part of their lives and do all the preparation they can to deal with it the best they can. In this episode Dawn compares this to anxiety and life in general, life will always have rain but it’s how we prepare for it, deal with it and accept it that matters and helps us carry on with our lives. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• We know we can’t control the weather, we just ensure we have the right tools and equipment to deal with whatever comes our way.
• Life throws challenges at us, that’s how it is. The more rigid we are and resistant to being adaptable and change, the more difficult it will feel. It’s much easier to be resilient and make a new plan if we accept that is part of life.
• We can grow and learn from life’s challenges, when you do this you can see how your life and experiences change, for the better.

BEST MOMENTS 

“Come rain or shine we carried on, we prepared for all weather”

 “When we expect things to happen, when we expect things to change, we can make the changes and still have enjoyment”

“When we experience challenges to our peace, our plans or direction we can be grateful for the times when things do go how we wish”

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!

Most of what we see and read in the news isn’t just facts. It’s a lot of opinion and sometimes even propaganda. It’s important that we try and remember this when we feel emotional when consuming the news. Listen in to this episode with Dawn to find out why what we read and consume often doesn’t serve us, why it evokes anxiety and stress and what we can do to stop it impacting us in such a big way and learn to challenge our initial reaction.

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• Your information, opinions and understandings are simply that, they are yours. We all have an unconscious bias which can lead us to ‘believe’ one thing over another.
• There are plenty of people in this world who have an agenda and have interest in making you view things in a certain way.
• Take a step back and look at the words you are seeing and hearing, ask yourself what emotions are they trying to evoke. What are they trying to make you feel and is there an opposing viewpoint? Only by consciously questioning our own unconscious bias and other people’s agenda can we start to open ourselves up to other ideas.

BEST MOMENTS 

“What is your intellectual diet, are you open to different opinions?”

 “I believed the news, I believed what people were saying, until I didn’t”

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!

This is the third in a series of interviews with people who have suffered and dealt with anxiety in their own way. Many people have used a mixture of therapies and medication and have insights into the way they have dealt with and overcome many of the challenges associated with anxiety and depression.

Their stories help to show the vast range of circumstances where anxiety shows up and gives us all hope that our lives can be better in the future. 

These are their stories, and you are free to take from them whatever you wish. Dawn is not a doctor or psychologist and therefore please consult your own medical practitioners before taking any action with regards to medication.

Emma is a certified Hypnotherapist, actress, burlesque performer, and lifelong athlete. She has been on her own mental health journey since she was 12 years-old. She knows what it’s like to struggle with depression, anxiety, PTSD, and sexual trauma. She understands the difficulties of getting through each day with these issues, what it is to feel hopeless, frustrated and lost. Listen in to this episode to hear her experiences and how she managed to overcome them and go on to live the life she deserved.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• When Emma first began to suffer from depression she was just 12 years old. She believed she wasn’t ‘bad enough’ or deserving of help. By the time she was 15 her feelings were unbearable and she tried to commit suicide. It was a awful time but it meant she couldn’t hide from her pain anymore; it had to be dealt with.
• Emma realises now that her suicide attempt wasn’t about wanting to die, it was about getting people to notice and to take her depression seriously. It was her way of asking for help and proving her problems were real. She was truly suffering.
• Emma has had a lot of therapy in her time and none of her therapists have been able to pinpoint the exact moments reasons behind her depression and anxiety. However, when she started hypnotherapy she was finally able to discover this and begin to heal. It was a revelation and she only wished she had discovered hypnotherapy sooner.
• Although medication helped Emma function in life many times, she admits she has a complicated relationship with it. She is grateful for how it has helped her but she also recognises the many downsides such as physical side effects she suffered. She thinks medication is a very personal thing and it’s important to work alongside you Dr to find what works for you. Everyone is different.
• It’s important to figure out what you need and want your therapist. What works for some might not work for others. Emma has always wanted to ‘go deep’ and heal from therapy, but some people want to just feel supported each week.
• When you are suffering with anxiety, there are a lot of approaches and people to help you suffering with anxiety but not enough people showing you how to get away from it in the first place. You don’t have to just ‘cope’ with anxiety, depression and life, instead you can work towards leaving these things behind. Something both Dawn and Emma advocate.
  
  

BEST MOMENTS

“I carried a lot of embarrassment, I carried a lot of shame”

“I want people to know how powerful they are and to feel good, to feel happy”

“There’s no better feeling in the world than when you’re proud of yourself”

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

Emma is a certified Hypnotherapist, actress, burlesque performer, and lifelong athlete. She has been on her own mental health journey since she was 12 years-old.

She knows what it’s like to struggle with depression, anxiety, ptsd, and sexual trauma and know what it’s like to try every modality on the planet, and still feel you’re at a standstill. She knows what it’s like to feel hopeless, frustrated and lost.

She got some help in the form of hypnotherapy.

Emma then went from living a life of trauma and low self-esteem to one of inner freedom, self-worth, joy, abundance and fully embodying her purpose.

When she re-programmed her subconscious mind using the power of hypnotherapy and realized it was so simple, she knew she had to help others feel the same. 

Emma is both Canadian & American and has lived half her life in Montreal and Toronto and the other half in Seattle, where she is based now. Though she exclusively works on Zoom and has clients all over the world (up to 4 continents and counting), and that is by far her favourite part of what she does: supporting & connecting with people everywhere.

Emma’s Website: https://www.emmaheywoodhypnosis.com/

Emma’s Email: [email protected]

Emma’s Instagram: @emmaheywoodhypnosis

https://www.instagram.com/emmaheywoodhypnosis/

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!

Fear is a natural feeling and is often felt alongside anxiety. Listen in to this episode where Dawn talks all about the feeling of fear, what we can do to deal with it and how accepting that change is inevitable can help us start to overcome and conquer our fears and anxiety.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• It may be easy to see that a fear isn’t rational but this doesn’t stop us feeling the fear. What we must learn to do instead is re-educate how we respond to situations with fear.
• Learning new things and stepping outside of our comfort zones is a necessary part of life. Trying to remind yourself of this can help you to face change. The expectation that things will always stay the same invites anxiety because nothing ever stays the same.
• Feel the fear and do it anyway. Taking this approach to life can allow you to push through the uncomfortable but inevitable parts of life. You can also re-label your feelings of fear as excitement.
• Repeat positive self-talk regularly and banish negative talk about, and to, yourself.
  
  

BEST MOMENTS

“Our unconscious minds think they’re real and therefore trigger the fear response”

“Feel the fear and do it anyway is to push through the uncomfortable feelings and take a chance”

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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!