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How To Survive and Thrive After Your Loved One’s Mental Breakdown

Coach Donna Marie shares insights about four keys to help you survive and thrive after your loved one has had a mental breakdown in episode 13 of Season 4 on the Plant Your Seeds of Transformation Podcast.

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  1. Plant Your Seeds of Transformation Final Episode with Coach Donna Marie
  2. Support for Remote Workers
  3. How to Have Faith for Miracles with Coach Donna Marie | Plant Your Seeds of Transformation
  4. Grief Series Finale with Coach Donna Marie | Plant Your Seeds of Transformation
  5. How to Stay Grounded While Grieving with Coach Donna Marie | Plant Your Seeds of Transformation

Summary and Highlights

Our video for today is pre-recorded on the topic of “How To Survive and Thrive After Your Loved One’s Mental Breakdown”. Coach Donna Marie gives you five key tips so you can stay healthy as you support your loved one through their own mental health journey. These tips will help you so that after some stability is achieved, you can hopefully recover quicker whenever new challenges arise. If you are a caregiver to someone dealing with chronic, severe mental illness challenges, or if you love someone else who is this type of caregiver, please pass this on. Also… I know that I do not have all of the answers here, so, if you want to contribute to this conversation in a positive way, leave a comment so we can support one another.

  1. Get therapy for yourself and for your family, too, if possible. Listen to the episode to hear my insights on how to get access to good care that works for you.
  2. Keep learning, especially how to understand yourself and be more compassionate with yourself. I talked about this more in a prior episode regarding World Mental Health Awareness Day.
  3. Set healthy boundaries, see book recommendations below. And get relationship coaching to set SMART goals for this area of your life and get results you have longed for, click here to enroll in coaching.
  4. Build and consistently plug-in with your community. Support groups are available at local churches and through NAMI and other organizations, many of which are by phone so you don’t have to be in person to attend.
  5. Pay attention to financial matters impacted by this journey and let go of money shame. I also discussed this in episode 10 in more detail.

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How can black women leaders understand themselves better and make better choices so they will live more happily and have more joy in relationships of all types, personally and professionally? Getting past perfectionism and shame, while also learning how to be more compassionate to self and others are keys to this.⁠

This podcast is produced by Lead Like A Queen Coaching and Consulting, LLC.

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Caregivers Can Still Dream

In the last episode, we talked about “Did You Give Up On Your Business Vision?“, and today’s episode ties in closely with that. Coach Donna Marie shares insights for caregivers to encourage them to dream and go after their goals in episode 12 of Season 4 on the Plant Your Seeds of Transformation Podcast.

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Plant Your Seeds of Transformation Final Episode with Coach Donna Marie – Plant Your Seeds of Transformation with Coach Donna Marie

The Plant Your Seeds of Transformation Podcast has fulfilled its purpose. Watch the latest podcast episode to learn what Coach Donna Marie is doing now to support leaders as we all keep learning and improving ourselves. Join my newsletter at https://CoachDonnaMarie.com to stay informed about what I am doing, and how I can help you become a more confident and competent writer or speaker.
  1. Plant Your Seeds of Transformation Final Episode with Coach Donna Marie
  2. Support for Remote Workers
  3. How to Have Faith for Miracles with Coach Donna Marie | Plant Your Seeds of Transformation
  4. Grief Series Finale with Coach Donna Marie | Plant Your Seeds of Transformation
  5. How to Stay Grounded While Grieving with Coach Donna Marie | Plant Your Seeds of Transformation

“Just because a caregiver is grieving over a loved one who has a chronic illness or has passed on, does not mean that they need to give up on their life and their dreams.”

~ Coach Donna Marie, Host of the Plant Your Seeds of Transformation podcast

This actually could give you even more of a reason to go for it… having a dream that you’re passionate about can give you energy to push past your setbacks and obstacles. Watch or listen to Coach Donna Marie’s insights based on her expertise and her own past struggles with the grief and trauma caused by caregiving for her spouse.

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About This Show

How can black women leaders understand themselves better and make better choices so they will live more happily and have more joy in relationships of all types, personally and professionally? Getting past perfectionism and shame, while also learning how to manage grief are keys to this. Hear the perspectives of diverse leaders who understand.

This podcast is produced by Lead Like A Queen Coaching and Consulting, LLC.

*Some resources shared are affiliate links, so if you choose to use them thank you in advance for supporting the show in this way because they may compensate us at no additional cost to you.

Did You Give Up On Your Business Vision?

In this 11th episode of the Plant Your Seeds of Transformation podcast, hear insights from Coach Donna Marie about how to know if you should (or should not) give up on your business vision.

“Shame that is stuck in your head and your heart will keep you from seeing any new possible choices… and will keep you from even trying to know better so you can do better.”

~ Coach Donna Marie

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In the last episode, I asked if you gave up on your money, and addressed the topic of holding shame about past money mistakes. Today’s episode specifically addresses business mistakes.

If life keeps happening to you and/or your loved ones, you may be tempted to give up on creating, improving, or building a business. Trauma and crisis can interfere with your vision for your business and with your motivation to keep moving forward. But do you have to give it up completely after you recover? Watch or listen to Coach Donna Marie’s insights based on her expertise and her own past mistakes/failures/lessons.

“A mistake/failure is a lesson and is therefore not a failure if you learn from it.”

~ Coach Donna Marie

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About This Show

How can black women leaders understand themselves better and make better choices so they will live more happily and have more joy in relationships of all types, personally and professionally? Getting past perfectionism (and shame) is one of the keys to this. Hear the perspectives of diverse leaders who understand this.⁠

This podcast is produced by Lead Like A Queen Coaching and Consulting, LLC.

*Some resources shared are affiliate links, so if you choose to use them thank you in advance for supporting the show in this way because they may compensate us at no additional cost to you.