Finding Freedom

Many of those who suffer from anxiety also suffer from perfectionism, that is a need to get everything perfect and anything less than perfect is unacceptable. This can be something we are taught in early life but it isn’t often helpful. Listen in to this episode to find out how we are sent unhelpful messages throughout our lives, how we can learn to understand that perfection does not exist and that our worth doesn’t have to be defined by it in any way.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• We need to realise that none of us are perfect and that perfectionism is subjective. What one person may believe perfection is can be very different to another.
• Achievement can be a driving force for so many people but once you meet that achievement, how long does this feeling of achievement last, what happens next?
• Too many of us are so busy striving for perfection that we are actually missing out on life or making life stressful and unenjoyable. Take some time to see what you can reduce or change, think about what it is you are running yourself ragged for and who you are doing it for. You can change your expectations and priorities.
  
  

BEST MOMENTS

“Decide what is important for you, not someone else”

“Perfection is subjective, it’s a measure against someone’s standard”

“Is your wellbeing tied up in those rules, is your wellbeing dependent on them”

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 second 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.

Christina Jones knows first-hand the overwhelming feelings of hopelessness and continuous worrying that stem from depression and anxiety. Having had multiple traumatic events in her life, she was only able to overcome her 30-year battle when she had her own Hypnotherapy session. Listen into this episode to hear her story.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Christina had a challenging childhood, her parents were young when they had her and she felt the weight of their difficulties even as a child. Her Dad was an alcoholic, her mum would often send her away to stay with other relatives and she also suffered abuse from a close family member.
• As a teenager after suffering mental and physical abuse from her mothers boyfriend, Christina started to suffer from anxiety, depression and developed bulimia, hypochondria and OCD.
• At 15 Christina met a boy and started to substitute sex for love. She just wanted to feel loved. She endured a lot of abuse from this boyfriend and resorted to taking pills to try and numb the pain she was feeling. But it didn’t help, it was just a temporary fog to stop her feeling so much. She left this partner after two years but she kept finding herself in abusive relationships time and time again.
• As humans, we all seek love and this manifests in so many different ways. Our upbringing and relationships shape how we find and view love and this has such a wide-reaching impact on the rest of our lives.
• Christina made the decision to leave this circle of abuse once and for all and moved away from Oregon. This was to be her fresh start for her and her daughter. Sadly, her Dad died and she leaned on her mums’ husband who abused this trust and she ended up back where she started.
• The only thing that kept Christina afloat at this time was her daughter, she knew her daughter needed her and it’s what kept her going.
• Covid hit and Christina knew this was her chance to truly start over. She found a house, a job and a week later moved. She was done after spending 33 years in a never ending pit of anger and sadness.
• The move led to Christina finding hypnotherapy and this is what saved her. She started to recognise what had happened to her and the patterns she had been repeating for years.
  
  

BEST MOMENTS

“It’s very human for us to want to withdraw from things that we know are harming us”

“You can’t get that connection, it doesn’t matter what you do or how you behave, it just doesn’t happen”

“Even as a 28 year old woman, it was just a sad little girl wanting love”

“Food was always something I could control”

“Hypnotherapy is incredibly powerful in unpacking some of the stuff and reframing it, allowing it to remain in the past where it belongs”

"Our feelings override logic all the time"

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

Christina Jones

Christina knows first-hand the overwhelming feelings of hopelessness and continuous worrying that stem from depression and anxiety. Having had multiple traumatic events in her life, she was only able to overcome her 30-year battle when she had her own Hypnotherapy session. Now, with energy healing, herbology, and as a hypnotherapist, she has made it her mission to help other women overcome their own battles with anxiety and depression. So they can move on and live happy thriving lives.

Christina has been featured in Brilliant Business T.V. and the American Reporter. You can find more information about her at www.christinajnl.com

Christina Jones | Facebook  Facebook/Christinajsnl

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!

When someone we love is suffering from anxiety, it’s only natural to try and help them. However, this isn’t always helpful to them or what is needed. Listen in to this episode to hear Dawn explain why and what you can actually do instead to help those we love cope and deal with their anxiety.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• We all see the world through our own lenses. We can’t possibly see and understand everything in a situation, we are biased by our own experiences and our attention is brought to things we place importance on.
• When we expect others to view and see things the same as us this is where we can come up against conflict. If we understand that we all have unique experiences and perspectives this can aid in preventing friction.
• When it comes to supporting someone who is suffering from anxiety, we think of solutions through our own experiences. So, what might seem helpful to us might not be close to what someone else might need in that situation.
• Many people who suffer from anxiety just want to be heard. They often know what they are feeling isn’t logical and they understand what they ‘should’ be doing in situations. They do not need reminding but what they do need is to be listened to.
• We don’t have to offer solutions to help people, we just need to listen to them.
  
  

BEST MOMENTS

“Our minds focus on the things it thinks are important”

“Not one person’s experience is the same as another’s”

“I don’t believe that anyone needs fixing”

“Holding a safe place for someone cannot be underestimated, it’s a powerful 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!

This is the first 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.

Leigh has been an IT Consultant in highly stressful jobs for over 25 years now and suffered from terrible anxiety and panic attacks. It wasn't until his second wife said she wanted him to leave that he realised the importance of life itself. Listen in to this episode to hear his story and how he overcame both anxiety and stress to lead a happier and more fulfilling life.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• A stressful life at both work and home is what triggered anxiety for Leigh. He felt like he was in a state of constant panic where he had no escape. He experienced a lot of mental fear and was struggling to cope with each day that came.
• Leigh had to take some medication to take him away from the edge. It was then his aim to find mechanisms and tactics to cope and be able to come off the medication. The medication gave him the head space to give him clarity on what needed to be changed.
• Anxiety hit Lee for a second time when his second wife divorced him. Although he found the divorce easier than the first time, it made him realise that a lot of what happened in the relationship was unfortunately his fault. This has meant he now knows when to take responsibility for his anxieties impact on situations.
• Leigh has found exercise has helped with his anxiety in lots of ways. It helps him feel better physically but also helps clear his mind.
• If you are struggling with a situation or relationships with someone then talk to them about it. Nip any issues in the bud and don’t allow your mind to overthink things.
• Life really can be amazing if we tackle it in the right way and that means being kind, helping others, dealing with daily issues, and letting our thoughts pass-thru rather than letting them take control of our reality. 
• To live without anxiety and stress leads to happiness which is what we all want and if only people realised how easy this can be, the World would become a better place. 

BEST MOMENTS

“Medication sometimes can stop you going any further down, it puts the brakes on for you to then start climbing back out it a metaphorical way”

“If there’s something on your mind, deal with it and don’t play around with it. Be kind to people and do everything you can to help people as much as you can”

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

Leigh Adams

Leigh has been an IT Consultant in highly stressful jobs for over 25 years now and suffered from terrible anxiety and panic attacks. It wasn't until his second wife said she wanted him to leave that he realised the importance of life itself. Leigh took 3 months off work to sort out his affairs and walked over 10 miles a day. 

It was during this calming time that Leigh realised the true benefits of having a clear mind. He then set up his own blog at Change Your Life Forever https://changeyourlifeforever.co.uk in order to pass on his experience and hopefully help other people in the same situation.

Life really can be amazing if we tackle it in the right way and that means being kind, helping others, dealing with daily issues, and letting our thoughts pass-thru rather than letting them take control of our reality. 

To live without anxiety and stress leads to happiness which is what we all want and if only people realised how easy this can be, the World would become a better place. 

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!

How open are you to new ideas? There has been countless people in history that were ridiculed and mocked for their radical and new ideas which actually turned out to be true. Listen in to this episode where Dawn explores the importance of being open minded and how this relates to the many differing attitudes around treatments for anxiety and other mental health conditions and mood disorders.  

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Conclusions can only come from the knowledge we already have. If we refuse to be open-minded then we can dismiss the real causes and reasoning behind something.
• Handwashing is one of the most important tools in public health, yet it wasn’t always this way. In fact when a Hungarian Dr Ignaz Semmelweis in the 19th century hypothesised this would stop post-natal deaths he was struck off! Compare this to people also believing the earth was flat and you can easily see how decisions can be made when not all the information is available to them.
• Hypnotherapy is a practice that many people are sceptical about. There will of course be bad examples of this treatment but there are also many, many individuals and research that proves its effectiveness.
• Antidepressants and anti-anxiety medication can be helpful for some people, especially at first but they often don’t work long term and they certainly don’t work for everyone. Hypnotherapy or another alternative therapy could be the answer for many.

• 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

BEST MOMENTS

“These people dared to challenge ideas that were ingrained in society and in the scholars of the time”

“I know there is far more that I don’t know than I do…it’s not about who’s right it’s about exploring a topic”

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 we create our thoughts or do they create us? In this episode Dawn explores the power of thoughts, the role they can and do play in our lives and what we can do to stop them from dictating how we feel.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• As humans we have an incredible imagination. This can create positivity and happiness but it can also have a downside. We can imagine negative situations that cause us fear, stress and anxiety.
• Our bodies are supposed to react to what we are thinking about, it’s evolutionary. In this sense we do not control our thoughts. But what we can control, is recognising whether it is useful to engage with the thoughts we have or not.
• It’s our thoughts that create our feelings and once we discover this we can challenge them.
• A thought is just that. It’s up to you if you give it energy or not, you can have control over how your thoughts make you feel and impact your life.
  
  

BEST MOMENTS

“Our ability to imagine can cause us a lot of distress”

“In-between what we are seeing and what we are feeling is thought”

VALUABLE RESOURCES

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 helped many tackle their struggles with fear and anxiety. In this episode she speaks to Pam about her own experiences with anxiety after a traumatic event. Pam and Dawn discuss the fear that was holding Pam back, the lack of hope and depression this was causing and how they then worked together to overcome the anxiety and get her life back. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• Pam was recovering from back surgery and had conflict with an insensitive and rude nurse that was caring for her. This created a cascade of events which resulted in her not being listened to by other hospital staff and breaking her knee and both hips.
• When this happened and she was just lying on the floor, she felt full of such anger and said she will never forget the look on the first nurses face. Why didn’t they listen to her when she said she needed help. The situation became even worse as neither her family or the Doctors were informed of what had happened. 
• Once home, Pam didn’t recognise herself, her husband or her home. Everything in life felt and seemed different.
• Although she recovered physically and should have been able to get out of bed, Pam felt she couldn’t. Previously being ignored and therefore hurt had created fear and anxiety that was stopping her from full recovery.
• Through hypnotherapy, working with Pam’s nurse and mindset shifts Dawn helped Pam walk again and overcome her anxiety. Pam’s trust in her nurse and Dawn was imperative in helping her face her fears and anxieties and get her life back.
• Pam’s message to anyone suffering similar to what she went through is to not hesitate in seeking help. She couldn’t recommend Dawn and her help enough.
  
  

BEST MOMENTS 

“I just thought why is she talking to me like that?”

“I was just too frightened about getting out of the bed”

“I was so frightened and she said you will never ever fall down with me”

“The first thing you say to yourself is you don’t need people but you do, you do need people and I am glad I had you DD [Dawn]”

VALUABLE RESOURCES

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!

Where does our anxiety come from? In the final episode of this three-part series, Dawn looks at what is called modelling. As children we copy the people around us and this continues into adulthood. We are born to learn from others for survival and this is why we ‘copy’ or ‘model’. Modelling has the same effect on our subconscious mind as beliefs and experiences, listen in to this episode to find out why and how we can learn to leave anxiety behind and become who we are supposed to be.

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• If you can recognise the negative behaviours you model, either from childhood or society, you can then take steps to change.
• Many of us model behaviours because it allows us to feel part of something and creates a sense of order, especially in regards to social rules and institutions. We blindly accept as children and into adulthood that this is how life is lived. In some areas this can be beneficial but in others it can begin to cause detrimental behaviour, it can be limiting, create conflicts within ourselves and cause anxiety.
• We innately want to please, belong and feel worthy and this can cause us to make decisions and life choices that eventually turn out to be wrong, causing a lot of turmoil and anxiety along the way.
• Anxiety often shows up when we aren’t living in alignment with ourselves, whether that is consciously or subconsciously.
  
  

BEST MOMENTS 

“It’s built into our survival system, we need to learn a lot of things to survive, we copy others to survive” 

“When we understand we can then begin to change”

“Understanding where our actions, behaviours and subconscious rules have come from is a very powerful start to transformation”

VALUABLE RESOURCES

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!

Where does our anxiety come from? In this second episode of three, Dawn looks at our experiences. Our experiences form how we approach the world, our attitudes and our reactions. Experiences have a bearing on how we tackle something particularly difficult as well as something every day and simple. Listen in to find out why this is and how exposure, balance and tolerance is significant in whether we find ourselves suffering from anxiety.

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• We aren’t born with anxiety. We all know life can be challenging and this can also feel somewhat relentless. All life experiences, from what is considered ‘normal’ to life-changing events, have the potential to cause anxiety.
• Our mood can also have a tremendous impact on how we respond to the world. What might not bother us one day might fill us with rage, or anxiety, the next.
• If we can make ourselves find perspective in situations that we find difficult this can aid us in dealing with them.
• Comparison is something we are all taught. When we compare ourselves to others plights and difficulties it isn’t helpful. It doesn’t remove your own stress, upset or anxiety.
• Beginning to understand your triggers as well as where your anxiety comes from, is very beneficial to start to overcome it.
  
  

BEST MOMENTS 

“My experience differed depending on the mood I was in”

“Understanding where your anxiety comes from is of great benefit when looking to overcome it”

VALUABLE RESOURCES

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!

Where does our anxiety come from? In the next three episodes Dawn breaks this down, in this first episode Dawn looks at our beliefs. Our beliefs are rules, expectations and understandings that are embedded in our very self and play a very big role in how we interpret the world around us. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• We create beliefs through both understanding and misunderstanding. 
• Many of our internal beliefs about ourselves are formed in childhood when our brain may not interpret things logically. This can have a bearing on our self-image and therefore our self-esteem as adults. We can easily form incorrect ideas about ourselves and anything else, that are then internalised as our beliefs into adulthood.
• It can be very valuable to gain an understanding of what our beliefs are. Recognising them and how they impact our dealings with the world can enable us to tackle what is holding us back or preventing us from living the life we want.
  
  

BEST MOMENTS 

“The human brain is designed to make sense of what it sees, or what it thinks it sees”

“What do you think is hidden? The beliefs that you have, have you ever thought about your beliefs?”

VALUABLE RESOURCES

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!