78. Beautifying Your Mental Health w/Jennifer Goldman

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Episode 78- How can we win our mental health battle? In this episode, Jennifer Goldman, founder of the balancing beauty brand Essential Rose Life, tells us her personal story about going from being riddled with destructive anxiety and depression to finding health, wholeness and beauty through simple understandings. Jennifer gives us a powerful testimony on the power of mindfulness and conscious self-care practices, along with radical acceptance of our "muchness" and authenticity. Many among us suffer from hidden mental health issues, and we can all learn to be empowered to understand and shift this for good.

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WITH JENNIFER GOLDMAN! Jennifer is a wellness entrepreneur, self-love teacher, and motivational speaker whose powerful mental health journey informs everything she does. After being diagnosed with anxiety and depression at age 15, she was taken on a two-year long therapeutic journey. Since then, she had achieved a dual bachelor degree in Religious Studies and Philosophy from Skidmore College, became certified in a diverse range of holistic healing modalities, and acquired a unique skill set to thrive and bring balance into her daily life. Jennifer formed and incorporated Essential Rose Life LLC in her senior year of college. Follow her on Instagram or check out her gorgeous website.

​DEFINITION of BEAUTIFYING YOUR MENTAL HEALTH: Beauty beyond your wildest dreams can lie on the other side of a mental health battle. Through mindfulness, high-vibrational self-care practices and personal evolution, we can go from being a prisoner in our own minds to standing freely empowered in our authentic beauty.
 
MAIN POINTS:

• Hear Jennifer's crazy story about being diagnosed with anxiety and depression at age 15, and then being taken to a therapeutic wilderness boarding school.
• NOTE: Although Jennifer had an ultimately positive experience from her therapeutic wellness program, we have been contacted by listeners who have not been so lucky. So we wanted to leave a note saying that not all experiences of therapeutic boarding schools are always good, and can sometimes cause further trauma or damage.
• Hear how she overcame her mental health battle after leaving the program.
• Hear about her take on the root of her behaviors and negative self-perceptions.
• Hear how bullying contributed to Jennifer's mental health journey.
• Why are we shamed for our sensitivities?
• How are we dimming our own light/drive/passion to make others more comfortable?
• Do you feel like you are "too much"?
• Your uniqueness, your muchness, and all that makes you who you are is your gift.
• Remember: "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a sick society."

For more on mindfulness and mental health, check out this Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook.

• The importance of mindfulness in self-regulation and in processing thoughts and emotions.
• Hear how Jennifer forged her own toolbox of holistic healing.
• How can plants help us balance our mental health?
• Hear how Jennifer turned her mental health experiences around to start a conscious beauty brand that helps others with mental health issues called Essential Rose Life.
• Hear how each of Essential Rose Life's products can affect both the mind and body through mindful rituals.
• Hear all about Jennifer's personal daily self-care rituals.
• Use code MLF10 for 10% off all of Jennifer's mood balancing beauty products. Shop here!

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​THANK YOU JENNIFER! We LOVE you! Thank you for being you and doing what you do! For more on Jennifer or to purchase her products, check out her shop and use code MLF10 for 10% off at checkout. Also, follow her on Instagram or check out her gorgeous website.

CHALLENGE/INVITATION: Sit with yourself in silence and ask yourself where you are on the self-love spectrum at this moment? Can you find a little more compassion for yourself?
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Have you noticed that you are toning down your brightness to fit in? How have you succeeded in your own mental health journey? Let us know everything in the comments!

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