Emily McDonald

And then I was in high school when I was diagnosed with depression.

Like I truly didn't want to live.

And at one point, like attempted to not live.

And so I think at that point, like it was just a combination of depression that actually happened.

had me being an atheist like oh life sucks like there is no you know I mean and everything I was struggling in so many different areas of my life that

I had mentioned this previously that my mindset was if God is real, then God must be evil because how could God do this?

And so that was my mindset.

And now I don't have that mindset at all.

I have a completely different mindset, but that's the mindset that I started out with.

I think it's exactly what you had mentioned earlier.

I shifted out of this victim mindset and I realized maybe things don't happen to you and maybe they happen for you.

And I fully am so grateful for everything that I went through because I wouldn't be able to help people in the way that I'm helping them now.

you know so many like everything like my my program that i have is like i help people rewire their habits i help people with their identity with their beliefs with with focus learning memory stress anxiety and the the reason why i have so much of this kind of targeted knowledge is because these are all things that i personally struggled with and i used my neuroscience degrees and my understanding of the way the brain works and my spirituality to

change my own life in all these different areas and so now I can take all of this and give it to other people and I wouldn't be able to do that if I hadn't gone through all of these things and so I think it really was that mindset shift out of like a victim and realizing I mean also developing into my you know I would say once I kind of

became aware of spirituality.

I don't even think I knew it was a thing until later in life and realizing, oh, hey, maybe my soul signed up for this.

And maybe I signed up for this before I came.

And maybe this was maybe the curriculum.

And I absolutely believe that it was the curriculum for me.

Absolutely.