Focusing on Baby Steps- How Grief and Trauma Led Amy to Becoming a Health & Wellness Coach

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Amy Lutzel, BA, CHWC, ACSM-CPT is the Wellness Director at Ivy Tech in Evansville, IN. She shares with us her transformational growth journey going from bottling up years of trauma and mental health challenges to becoming a certified health and wellness coach. She continues on her healing and grief journey as she encourages others to reach out, connect and take small steps in being the best version of themselves. Amy experienced a major job loss, family with mental illness, parents with terminal diagnosis, is a survivor of suicide, and own medical health problems. She speaks to the importance of allowing yourself to feel the discomfort of grief, taking baby steps and exploring ways to better heal and grow. She is a huge supporter and advocate for self-care, mental illness, and suicide prevent- especially during this pandemic. Check out her routine encouragement and self-care tips!

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Share Your Grief Story? As Amy mentioned, keeping your grief bottled in will only make things worse. Our most recent project knows many grief stories go unshared for many reasons, yet we also know grief needs to be witnessed in order to heal wholly. That's why we've created this opportunity for you to mail in your grief story anonymously. By doing so it gives WMM?E permission to share its entirety/parts on social media, this podcast and for possible research purposes. Mail in to: WMM?E, PO Box 112, Elberfeld, IN 47613