In today’s episode of the She Finds Joy podcast, Kim speaks with Laura Wagner about their shared experiences overcoming panic disorders, having families, and blossoming into totally badass women. Laura is a psychotherapist, life coach, fitness guru, model, writer, and speaker… basically, there’s nothing she can’t do! And she uses that attitude to help other women create extraordinary lives, too.
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In this episode, Kim and Laura talk about…
- Progress versus perfection—how important it is to recognize all the things you’ve accomplished, no matter how “small” they may seem.
- Understanding that your value and self-worth are not determined by your accomplishments, and how difficult it can be to shift to that mindset.
- Laura’s emotional battle to recover from multiple miscarriages, and her current struggle with degenerative arthritis and chronic pain, and how she learned to be resilient in the face of hardship.
- You can be a badass woman and still have vulnerabilities—that’s what makes us all human.
“…I played basketball a little when I was a girl. And I know, you know, the one thing they teach you is to pivot. Keep one foot on the ground. You don’t get to run away, but just turn your body with the other one. Position the body differently. And that’s a really compact, powerful move. Well, that’s what I learned to do. I don’t totally raise my foot off the ground. I really can’t right now with my physical issues, but I can literally turn my body and say, ‘Well what can you do? How can you live with this?’”
-Laura Wagner
Check out these great reads recommended by Laura & Kim!
- Daring Greatly by Brené Brown
- Big Leap by Gay Hendricks
- Rewire Your Anxious Brain by Catherine M. Pittman PhD
- Atomic Habits by James McClary