Trauma comes in many forms and we need to better understand it.

Trauma comes in many forms and affects everyone differently. This guest knows all too well what trauma can do. Michelle Vande Hey now a coach and educator, helping others be trauma-informed and making sure to take care of themselves before burning out from over giving. Michelle is a strong and brilliant woman, join the conversation!

 

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Leighann Lovely  00:20

HR professionals, business owners and operations at all levels are struggling to figure out what needs to change. Our system has been shocked practices have been questioned, and conversations are finally happening. We all know there has been a huge shift in what people want. inclusion and diversity are common phrases. But often misunderstood generations are coming together more than ever on what's important. Mental health has been brought to the forefront of everyone's mind. Let's humanize these conversations. Let's talk about what's important for employees to be successful in life and at their job and how companies can create an environment to allow them to do both because successful people will make up a successful workforce. I'm Leighann Lovely. Let's get this conversation started.  Today I have a very authentic and amazing guest joining me. Michelle Vande Hey. After the death of her son James, Michelle battled depression, anxiety and PTSD. Her relationship with her loving daughter was torn apart. She was binge eating to numb the pain and felt completely lost with where she was and where she was going. Michelle found herself again, with a holistic approach to healing alongside professional help and a meaningful connection built in a community with folks that were able to help her know her worth. This led her on an unexpected path where she now helps founders and nonprofits to recover from or prevent burnout from over giving and compassion fatigue, so they can create long lasting sustainable impact with their organization without losing themselves. Michelle founded light of love coaching in February of 2020, and is a trauma informed certified holistic life coach. Her mission is to create a welcoming community of folks that rediscover who they are by knowing their self worth and embracing their spiritual gifts so they can be empowered to influence change for themselves and others around the world. Together, they are co creating a more inclusive, peaceful and, and prosperous world. Michelle has been featured in brava magazine and is regularly a guest on podcast. When she is not coaching, speaking or facilitating. You can find Michelle making dance videos in her kitchen biking to Pilates getting lost in the world or running with the sunrise. welcome Michelle, I am so excited to have you join me today.

 

Michelle Vande Hey  03:03

Well, thank you. Thank you for having me.

 

Leighann Lovely  03:05

Why don't you start off by telling us a little bit about yourself and about your business?

 

Michelle Vande Hey  03:10

Sure. So I live in the sock city Wisconsin area with my husband and daughter. And we've lived here for eight years now we live, lived in Madison for a while and then moved here for my husband's work. And I've worked from home most of my life. So I'm just mobile. And yeah, I'm a certified holistic life coach. And I do trauma informed work, and really passionate about helping leaders and founders of nonprofits and mission driven organizations to create sustainable impact and sustainable success without burning out a lot with focus on like over giving compassion, fatigue and vicarious trauma. And I utilize trauma sensitive yoga as well. To help with those things.

 

Leighann Lovely  04:05

That's That's amazing. And I think that a lot of people nowadays suffer from over giving. I think that's especially in the nonprofit, I mean space. And that's, that's, that's absolutely amazing. And your your business, when you and I talked really came out of, you know, trauma in your life that led you down the path to coaching. Are you open to telling us a little bit about your story?

 

Michelle Vande Hey  04:39

Yeah, sure. Yeah. So coaching was something I had never thought I would do. Even though I would always have people kind of tell me like, oh, you should be a coach or you should be a speaker and that kind of stuff. And I just kind of, you know, was like okay, yeah, you probably said that to everyone sort of thing. And then in unfortunately in October Were of 2018, we had a son that died when he was about 12 weeks old in his sleep. And after that happened, obviously, like just all sorts of stuff. And by October