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

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

 

 

CONTACT METHOD
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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!