Finding Freedom

Louisa Valentin is a nurse, wellness coach and business co-founder. Louisa empowers women to find their strength to achieve their optimal strength in both mental and physical health, combining her experience and knowledge in both physical fitness and mental health and coaching. She joins Dawn in this episode to talk about her story of overcoming the many daily struggles in her life, including anxi...

Alberta is a trauma survivor and has lived through sexual abuse, physical abuse, verbal abuse, emotional abuse, and financial abuse and then suffered a medical trauma – a brain haemorrhage. Alberta overcame all of these obstacles and more while raising two children.  She joins Dawn to talk about her personal journey with anxiety and the work she now does with other women through her company Exhila...

Miquette Dobros is a coach, health professional and healer. She also founded Elevate Online Today. She joins Dawn to talk about her lifelong struggles with anxiety, how she managed to combat it and how she helps others do the same. KEY TAKEAWAYS  Miquette recalls struggling with anxiety from as young as 5. It contributed to her lack of confidence and although she did see therapists, all that seeme...

Kshama is a Certified Happiness & Empowerment Coach. She joins Dawn in this episode to talk about the work she does with professional women as well as her own experiences with anxiety and how she overcame them. KEY TAKEAWAYS  As humans, we easily imagine the worst scenarios in our heads which can be a big source of anxiety. When Kshama got married, she felt like she couldn’t be her true self. She...

Azzah has spent years dedicating her time to helping and educating young boys and girls escape slavery and rebuild their lives. She runs retreats, conferences and also works with corporate clients. Often described as the wise wild woman, Azzah is passionate about personal development and self-discovery. Azzah joins Dawn to talk all about the role of trauma in anxiety and our lives. They discuss wh...

Larissa is a well-established author with works ranging from science fiction to self-help. She is the founder of Next Page Wellness Coaching, where she helps people write, edit, market and publish their own books. Larissa joins Dawn in this episode to explore her personal experiences with anxiety and burnout. She also talks about how writing helped her heal and why her mission in life is to help o...

There is always a lot of talk about freedom in the world of coaching, but what does this actually mean? In this episode, Dawn explores her own definition of freedom and what she looks to achieve for her clients. KEY TAKEAWAYS  Dawn aims to help people free themselves from anxiety and live the lives they are destined to live. Freedom is a principle, not a single set of beliefs or rules. Our persona...

Dawn is joined in this episode by trauma expert, Interculturalist and coach Barbara StClaire. Barbara talks through her own experiences of trauma and anxiety and how she has managed to deal with these in varying stages of her life. She also talks about the importance of recognising the differences in culture when coaching using her expertise in Interculture. KEY TAKEAWAYS  During Covid Barabara st...

Molly Desch is a certified life coach and has developed the alcohol-free foundation programme to help others after her own struggles with drinking. Molly joins Dawn in this episode to share her personal journey and why she is now passionate about helping others to overcome their problems, particularly around drinking and learning better ways to cope with the stresses of life. Dawn and Molly also e...

In this episode of Overcoming Anxiety, Dawn explores how we create our own reality with the conscious, unconscious and subconscious mind. Discover how we perceive, span and define our own reality by the things we focus on in different moments. KEY TAKEAWAYS- We only notice between five and nine things in any one moment. That's our conscious mind, so by definition, we are not noticing a whole h...

In this episode, Dawn talks about change, why it’s so difficult to do and also what causes us to be so anxious and resistant to change in the first place. She explores why our anxiety and fear can be restrictive and how we can overcome them too. KEY TAKEAWAYS  The beliefs, expectations and rules we learn as we grow as people create a restriction on our lives. Our minds do not like change, which is...

Join Dawn as she talks about one of her success stories with a woman called Pam whom she interviewed on episode 6 of the podcast. Dawn worked with Pam to overcome her anxiety after a traumatic event and in this episode explores the power of taking that first step, or the next step, in overcoming anxiety. Pam’s Interview on episode 6 of the Overcoming Anxiety Podcast. KEY TAKEAWAYS  It’s incredible...

Society seems to constantly criticise and judge people for things that are none of their business. Join Dawn in this episode where Dawn talks about judgement in the media and explores the wide-ranging impact this has on us, particularly our anxiety. KEY TAKEAWAYS  There have been a lot of opinions and judgements in the media after the death of the Queen. Many of these appear to be alarmist and is...

Tawni is a certified hypnotherapist, author, volunteer and advocate within the LGBTQ community. Before her current career, she worked for 20 years as an engineer specialising in the TV entertainment industry.  Her current passion as a therapist is to help those in the LBGTQ community in overcoming the many high barriers that exist.  Her advocacy and career are focused on empowering individuals to...

Gina has been a Licensed Clinical Social Worker for over 2 decades and has spent the past 25 years of her career helping individuals and families learn to adapt and cope with difficult life transitions. She joins Dawn in this episode to talk about her journey to becoming a therapist, what high functioning anxiety looks like and how we can work to beat the cycles of anxiety in both ourselves and ot...

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...

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 rea...

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 fa...

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 carrie...

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...

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 peop...

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 a...

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 gett...

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 re...

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...