She was a high-flying, ambitious, mother, wife and healthcare strategist. On a flight home from meetings in Saudi Arabia she had what she thought was a heart attack. It turned out to be a panic attack and it turned her life upside down. “I’d dealt with depression all my life—since I was three…I overcompensated by achievement,” she tells Lesley Jane Seymour, founder of CoveyClub.com. “I didn’t want to admit my imperfections.” Using psychotherapy, prayer, medication, exercise, meditation, and yoga, Chopra has “learned to be more compassionate with herself. “ Chopra speaks nationally and internationally about raising awareness of mental illness and how it impacts policy changes at the corporate level. “Why can’t we be vulnerable?” she asks.
Chopra recommends NAMI (the National Alliance on Mental Illness https://www.nami.org/#) as a good starting point for your research.
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#217 Reinventing from a Stable Career to Fill a Need Gap (Sharon Linder)
#216 From Stay-at-Home Mom to Addiction Recovery Maven (Felicia Montiforte Kleinpeter)
#215 Her Health Crisis Led her to Start a Nonprofit at 27 (Donna Cryer)
#214 When Covid Forces You to Pivot – and You Thrive (Sarah LaFleur)
#213 Reinventing How Women 50+ Are Seen in the Fashion Industry (Stephanie O’Dell)
#212 She Wrote the Guidebook for Midlife Reinvention (Joanne Lipman)
#211 The Secret to a Successful Reinvention (Katie Fogarty)
#210 What to Do When You’re Bored With Your Job (Shilpa Kulshrestha)
#209: He Decided to Start a New Business – Every Year! (Sean Castrina)
#208 Taking Her Reinvention Story to the Stage (LeeAnn Marie Webster)
#208 Reinventing Your Relationship to Uncertainty (Jill Griffin)
#207 My Reinvention Took Me from Poverty to the White House (Rebecca Contreras)
#207 From Bartender to Social Media Maven (Stacey Birch)
#205 Reinvent Your Approach to Self Promotion In The Digital Age (Alice Draper)
#204 The Near-Death Experience That Forced My Reinvention (Geralyn Ritter)
#203 When a Health Crisis Becomes a Transformative Journey (Elena Sonnino)
#202 When Your Personal Reinvention Leads to Groundbreaking Change for Autism (Dr. Joan Fallon)
#201 Reinventing Your Mindset About Aging (Judy Katz)
#200 When Your Reinvention Leads You to Run for Political Office (But You Lose) (Claire Campos-O’Neal)
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