In this episode, Dawn Taylor joins me to discuss handling mental health issues when running your own business. The truth is we all experience highs and lows. But sometimes, those lows can feel paralyzing. You know what you want to do next in your business, but you can't seem to get through this intense fear, sadness, anxiety or depression that you're feeling. So, how do we manage how we feel while managing a business simultaneously? How do we give ourselves the space to heal and grow while keeping our companies going? Dawn is a Life Coach with over 1000 hours of training who offers her clients “A Safe Place to Land” as she passionately helps them to find their worth, learn to live and love themselves. Having struggled with gut-wrenching depression, a broken back, sexual abuse by an uncle (coupled with a lack of belief from her family), a severe eating disorder, attempted suicide and a brain aneurysm which affected her memory, appearance and health – all before she was 18 years old – Dawn learned to become a fighter and a survivor. She then went on to deal with infertility and loss of identity in who she was and who she thought she should be. Through incredible strength, an insane amount of hope, a belief in herself and a stubbornness that would have made her fun to raise, she has fought to become the woman she is today: A successful business owner, coach, wife and volunteer to the hurt. Her deepest desire is to turn everyone she meets into their own rockstar through her strategy-based coaching practice. She specializes in anxiety and depression and in overcoming the traumas that have happened in their lives that hold them back. From personal to business to marriage coaching and everything in between, Dawn will help you set a new standard, step up and master the life that you want! We talk about:
- [5:05] Why we don't want to talk about trauma
- [8:40] Using the Feelings Wheel to dig deep into your emotions
- [11:40] Why putting a bandaid on our emotions isn't helpful
- [15:10] How to create boundaries if you're struggling with depression or anxiety
- [21:10] Setting boundaries without harming someone else
- [28:00] Why do we judge ourselves
- [33:45] Dawn's biggest advice for fellow entrepreneurs
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