Are you bogged down by your mental health struggles? Not only can it be harmful in how you interact with family and friends, but it can also impair your performance at work.

In this episode, you will discover that the road to mental and emotional well-being DOES exist.

Today you will meet Lauren Roskilly, a Christian transformational coach, author, and speaker who provides insights, mindset shifts, and actionable steps that will help you navigate mental health challenges and motivate you to lead with clarity, purpose, and strength.

Redeem Your Business Today by the Following:

How can we honor God in our business?

We can honor God by giving him all the glory. It’s important to remember that we must put God before ourselves and be conscious of the fact that it’s difficult to accomplish goals and tasks without Him by our side.

One challenge from today:

If you don’t address your mental struggles, it can exacerbate the issue and prompt you to react negatively.

More from this episode:

God put us on this earth to be a community, and there will always be an avenue that can be taken for improving your mental well-being and professional success.

• Journaling can be beneficial and reveal recurring thoughts, behaviors, or situations that contribute to stress or depressive tendencies
• Talk to someone and share how you feel. Putting your emotions out there can be scary but is very rewarding      
• The process alone can help you recognize how you currently feel and gain insight into the underlying causes of your emotions, allowing you to address them with greater clarity and intention.

More About Lauren Roskilly

Check out her website: mindfulofchrist.net for helpful blogs, mental health articles, resources, courses, mental health assessment and more.

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David:

[0:00] Today I'm pleased to have with me Lauren Roskilly. She is a Christian mindful coach and she aids those who are struggling with mental health issues, anxiety, depression, stress, etc.

David:

[0:11] I know as business owners we want to put this up front that we have everything together and nobody wants to admit that they have anxiety or depression but we need to face it. sometimes that happens. Anxiety and depression frequently knock at our door. We brought Lauren on to help us navigate these waters, both biblically and wisely, to help us to identify that and steps to relieve that. She has over six years of doing this, helping others, and helps many, many people navigate their mental health and get a stronger mental health position. Lauren, welcome to Redeeming Business Today podcast. Glad to have you here.

Lauren:

[0:52] Thanks, David. It's great to be here.

David:

[0:55] And so, Lauren, what is one way you believe that we can honor God in our business that others may not know about?

Lauren:

[1:05] I think, well, giving him the glory is, we were just talking about that, weren't we? We just, it's, that needs to be first and foremost. It's well for me personally doing the ministry it's not about me it's it's about him what he's doing his will his plan and his kingdom so like all those people that I work with or who listen to or use our services or products it's about them and their growth with God so just constantly bringing it back and reminding even ourselves it's easy to go down the slope of getting a little bit of pride maybe, might sneak sometimes but it's important to just completely and utterly just submit, surrender and give him all the glory because well, personally I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing if it wasn't for him I'd be doing something completely different

David:

[2:12] Sure sure very good and that that is very true it reminds me of deuteronomy 8 you know reading about israel and they said beware when you come into the land and you're very prosperous that you don't forget god and you think you did it all yourself god is the one who gave you the power to to make wealth um you think you may have done on your own but i'm the one who helped you so yeah we need to keep that in in mind very good so lauren tell me give me three or four minutes uh Tell me your journey, where you started, why you're in the mental health coaching business today.

Lauren:

[2:46] Okay, so, yeah, it's been a long, long journey, but I'll keep it succinct. So, when I was a teenager, that was my first bout of depression.

Lauren:

[3:02] And over the years, I've been in and out of depression, experiencing anxiety, self-harm, suicide, idulation. I've even attempted it a few times throughout my life and I became a Christian about 20 years ago and then about six years ago I had to re-submit and re-surrender to the Lord.

Lauren:

[3:32] Other issues I've had over my life is something called neurocardiogenic syncope. So I would just black out I would just faint and with the syncope came absolute exhaustion brain fog lots of things and I've had that for 28 years on and off I have seasons of remission which last about a year to 18 months and then come back again and I've had that like I said 28 years now so the depression comes alongside that a lot I've noticed and in hindsight I can see and I know that it's because well it's very limiting just this summer I spent nine weeks stuck in my flat I couldn't leave the flat at all um so having that it basically feels like I'm having my freedom taken away from me. My health, I can't choose. I have no control over it. And I think that's where a lot of where the depression comes in as well, because it can be seen as grief.

Lauren:

[4:47] Like having things being taken away from you, like freedom, like stop driving, just even everyday stuff. Like now I have carers in, I have an electric wheelchair if I feel brave enough to get out. So all these things contributed to my mental health.

Lauren:

[5:09] And so, yeah, I've dealt with that over the years and about six years ago the Lord brought me into ministry work and it certainly wasn't my plan it wasn't my plan at all I'd done a university degree I wanted to go into adult social care obviously with my health I couldn't and I'd said to the Lord I'd had nine days this at this about six years ago I had nine days in bed because even sitting up I would just black out sitting at the dinner table or sitting at the floor in the shower and my I was a single mum as well so my daughter was my carer and I said to the Lord what's the point in all of this I was at my wit's end and he said to me so so quietly I just heard Jeremiah 29 11 and I didn't know what verse it was so I looked it up and said I have plans to prosper you and not to harm you and a future. Now, I just want to say here that that doesn't mean that we're going to be prosperous and everything's going to be fantastic. What that means is we can have that hope no matter what we're going through.

Lauren:

[6:29] And at the time, I knew it was God saying it, and it was encouraging, but I scoffed at him, I didn't believe him

Lauren:

[6:42] And about six months later that's when the ministry started so he started with, he asked me to start blogging which was the first, which was weird because I didn't know what blogging was that was how clear it was and he basically said he wanted me to write about mental health and faith and at that time I was still I wasn't in the midst of depression but I was I was coming out of it I wasn't out of it but I was on my way out of it and I said to him that I wasn't ready and he basically said I want you to write about your story your journey um with him and with mental health so that's how it started that was six years ago so yeah and since then obviously okay let me yeah

David:

[7:33] So this is something you know firsthand then and have dealt with it and can understand people. We don't like that, but sometimes that's what it takes for us to go through the fire so we can help other people who you can see what they're going through. Because if you don't, you may minimize what they're going through. So, well, good for you. Thanks that you have submitted to God and are running with it and helping people out. So, mental health. I don't know how to—do you have a label for that? I mean, you say you want to be mentally strong, but I don't want to tell people, oh, you're mentally weak or you're out of it. Do you have a title or how you call that for people who are struggling with depression?

Lauren:

[8:21] Well, there are so many different levels of it, isn't there? Okay. It's like you've, for instance, worry and anxiety. Someone could just be worried about something. Someone might just, oh, something's on your mind. It's just playing on your mind. And then you've got the next level or you're officially worried. And then you've got anxiety you're a bit you're a bit anxious about something you're a bit nervous bit jittery and then you've got full-blown anxiety where it's debilitating so there are so many different levels on it and when I work with my clients we go through an assessment before we do anything to see where they're at to see if I can help them or if they need medical intervention and yeah and go from there okay

David:

[9:12] No i i there again i'm not the expert i didn't understand there's levels of anxiety i thought you either had it or you don't you know but okay that's like a flat tire you have that flat tire you don't have a flat tire but no um so okay so statistically what are we talking about here is this is this a, Is there a lot of depression out there, or is it just a little handful of people out there who are struggling with this? What are we talking about?

Lauren:

[9:38] Well, a couple of years ago, it was one in four people suffer with mental health at some point in their lives. I don't know the exact statistics for today's day and age, but I know that just through people that I know through this last year, a lot of people have been struggling. And it's definitely very, the statistics are very high in men, especially where it comes to suicide as well.

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