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.
#171 Reinventing Yourself All Over Again From Scratch (Kathleen Smith)
#170: Her Reinvention as a Writer Happened at 63 (Stephanie Raffelock)
#169: When an Economic Upheaval Forces You to Reinvent Your Career (Susan Schoenberger)
#168 From Nun to Fortune 500 Founder: How One Woman Overcame Her Fear of Reinvention (Ellen Snee)
#167: Reinventing After 50 to Recover Your Life’s Passion (Jennifer Lewis McKay)
#166: How to Reinvent Your Relationship to Your Children’s Education (Caitlin Meister)
#165: When Job Loss Leads to Understanding Your Own Story (Kate Eckman)
#164: Reinventing Your Sleep During Menopause: Solutions! (Hasti Nazem)
#163: Investing Your Life’s Savings in Your Career Reinvention (Janet Gurwitch)
#162 When a Pandemic Trashes Your Business (Paula Floyd)
#161 When a Literal Explosion Forces You to Rethink Your Professional Identity (Christine Bader)
#160 Science as a Platform for Reinvention (Ariel Garten)
#159: When Career Transformation Leads to Personal Reinvention (Kristine Deer)
#158 Reinventing When Life Makes You a Double Caregiver (Laurie James)
#157 Running Her Side Hustle on One Hour a Day (Nicole Malcolm-Manyara)
#156 Graduating from Smith College at Age 67 (Ann Dowsett Johnston)
#155 Growth is in the Struggle (Jennifer Pate)
#154 Don’t Think of it as a Reinvention, But as a Next Step (Marlene Wallach)
#153 Pay Attention to Your Intuition (Sandy Weiner)
#152 How a City Inspired a Reinvention (Debra Shriver)
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