Overcoming Anxiety: A Personal Journey to Mental Wellness

But got to a point in my life, especially with the birth of my son, it's like, okay, I gotta, gotta do something about this. And hypnotherapy really helped me.

So, uh, so Craig, let me ask you, man, so you say in your childhood you went through anxiety and depression. So is this what inspired you to go into the profession?

Yeah, it really helped me. This is— so really started the depression, the anxiety really started in my teenage years. So this is the 1980s. I graduated high school in 1985, and so that's coming up to 40 years. Good Lord. And so, uh, so right into my 20s, again, it's just like, it just— you just get used to it, you know? It's sort of like, well, I guess this is how it is, and maybe everybody else feels like this too. Sort of like, how do you describe, uh, describe color to a blind person? Like, how do you— how would you describe green to a blind person who had never seen green before? So how do you describe, like, oh no, you can have joy and you can have happiness and you have peace and you have freedom and you have ease? And I don't know, I don't know what that means. I have no idea what you're talking about. And, and so I just— you settle into it. Like, this is the way it's going to be. And it was really the birth of my son, uh, in the year 2001 that it was like, okay, I gotta get— I gotta get my life together. My mother struggled with depression, uh, I struggled in depression, anxiety.