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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#118: Anne Bokma (A year of living spiritually)
#117: Linda Olson (Accept, Adapt, Innovate)
#116: Cindy Golbert (Allowing her passions lead her reinventions)
#115: Susan Lister Locke (From real estate to her real love of making fine jewelry)
#114: Linda Mauro (From fashion showroom manager to college COO)
#113: Beth Bengtson (When you find out you're the best person for the top job)
#112: Rob Moore (Reinventing himself in order to help others reinvent)
#111: Alexis Mersel (When not having a plan is the best plan)
#110: Cyndie Burkhardt (From corporate burnout to living her around-the-world dream)
#109: Kelley Biskupiak and Susan Rietano Davey (Using their reinvention to help others reinvent)
#108: Anita Devlin (OCD + Film know-how = Her own organizational show)
#107: Melanie Curtis (From professional skydiver to life coach)
#106: Kathi Sharpe-Ross (A self-starter shares her secrets)
#105: Barbara Waxman (Reinventing the definition of midlife as “Middlescence")
#104: Heidi Diamond (Reinventing your job when your boss is sent to jail)
#103: Jeanne Rosner (From pediatric anesthesiologist to high school teacher)
#102: Candace Freedenberg (Opting back in after opting out)
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#100: Celebrating 100 episodes and reinventions
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