Nav's Story: Hitting Rock Bottom to Turn Things Around

Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast

Caroline Foran

Overwhelm, Education, Health & Fitness, Panic Attack, Caroline Foran, Stress, Anxiety

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Join me on @OwningItPodcast on Instagram. This week my guest is Nav Sohanpaul, a South Asian mindset coach from Windsor who has grown up in the Sikh community. She shares her experience of crippling anxiety with me and how she had to hit rock bottom to turn it all around. She shares how the expectation to be a certain way and follow a certain path led her to one day, finding herself on all fours in the grips of a panic attack and having no choice but to acknowledge that her body was trying to tell her something. How would she explain this to her family? What's it like to have mental health struggles in a community where it is still hugely stigmatised as weakness? How would she carve out an entirely new life for herself separate to what everyone else had expected of her so as to preserve her wellbeing?

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to owning it. If you would like to support the series, the best thing you can do is just tell a friend or better yet share it on social media. If you really, really want to support, you can subscribe to me on Substack where I write a weekly column. Listeners of the pod get a 20% discount forever at carolinephorun.substack.com. Thank you.
0:28.5	Hello, dear listener and welcome back to owning it the anxiety podcast. I just want to say thank you at the beginning for following me on Instagram over at owning a podcast where I've
0:32.9	created a new page where I will hopefully be able to share lots of helpful ancillary content
0:37.4	to the podcast
0:37.9	like tips, clips, different explainers and topics and discussions around upcoming episodes. So do join
0:43.5	me over there if you are on social media. My guest this week I have just recorded with her.
0:47.8	Her name is Nav Sohan Paul. She's a mindset coach. She's just an incredible woman. Having been
0:53.0	raised in a Sikh community with a Sikh background,
0:55.9	but living in Windsor, Nav shares with me her really inspiring story about living one way when
1:03.5	you're meant to be living another way. So the expectations of her community, the perception,
1:07.4	the outward measures of success that were placed upon her that just did not align with how she felt or what she believed or what she needed in her life and how incredibly
1:14.5	tough that was and the anxiety that had to manifest and had to come to the fore in order to get her
1:19.3	onto the path that she needed to be on. So she shares her story of that and now these days she's
1:24.3	working as a mindset coach. I will include the links in the podcast description
1:27.7	in the episode notes to follow Nav and connect with her if that's what you want to do. I really hope
1:32.4	you find this helpful. I think it's particularly relevant for people who are struggling with anxiety
1:37.2	and really finding it hard to articulate that to their family or their friends or anyone in their
1:42.2	life who doesn't quite understand and that can be another layer of anxiety on top of what you're already dealing with.
1:47.2	And it can be such a source of stress.
1:48.7	So do enjoy this episode.
1:49.7	And thank you as always for tuning in.
1:58.0	Nav, thank you so much for joining me on owning it the Anxiety Podcast.
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