Exercise and study kept me from going over the edge.
Not stopping until I gained the strength to stand on my own feet.

Taking action to me was not something that came easy in my past. Growing up with an alcoholic father and being bullied outside of the home crushed my self worth bringing with it depression and a fog of suicidal thoughts.

Though it was this school of hard knocks that forced me to fight back.  I learned to channel the frustration and anger to motivation and drive. Exercising seven days a week and reading over a thousand books by the age of 25, life turned around when I became a personal fitness trainer having the honor of meeting tens of thousands of people and learning about people from every walk of life. 

Eventually after a complete immersion of psychology, philosophy, science AND only after I finding my own inner peace did I become a therapist. Then progressing a career in one to one and in groups teaching on the mind and emotional intelligence. I feel it is essential for anybody who deals with emotional well-being in others to have walked their own path first to gain true empathy!