Lisa's Story (4mins) - Mental Health Awareness Month

Hear a 4 minute powerful episode where yoga studio owner  Lisa from Tucson YogaPod shares her journey with Mental Health with our listeners and her students.

This is an excerpt from an upcoming episode of Yoga Biz Camp

Lisa Cutts, owner of Tucson Yoga in Arizona, shares her journey with mental health on the podcast Yoga Biz Camp. In 2009, she fell ill and ended up in the ICU, unaware of the mind-body connection. Yoga became her refuge, slowing down her racing thoughts and instilling a sense of well-being. Inspired by her own experience, Lisa created a welcoming yoga studio where people can focus on themselves without judgment. Through her studio, she also found the courage to talk openly about mental illness, breaking the stigma and letting others know they are not alone. Lisa believes that success and mental illness are not mutually exclusive and emphasizes the importance of managing mental health continuously. Her goal is to foster a supportive community and encourage discussions on mental well-being.
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Transcript

 So I had dabbled in yoga here and there throughout my life, but back in uh, 2009 I got very sick and I ended up in I C U for a couple weeks. I had basically worked myself sick and hadn't realized at the time the mind body connection mine was. So my particular is anxiety and clinical. Depression. So it's that feeling of hopelessness and you're not enough and you're not going to be able to dig yourself out, but you have to put on a face, uh, and make it okay for everybody else around you.

People who worked with me in the past would probably be shocked to hear that cuz I always had a face on. It was real. And so after that I said, what am I gonna do? And I, my daughters actually took me to a hot yoga studio in town and I instantly fell in love because I felt like, oh my gosh, I can do this and I feel great, and my monkey mind is slowing down.

And then I started paying attention to this. And still at that point I was still very, uh, much very. Private about my own personal life and my work life. Yoga changed my life, helped me slow down my mind, helped me realize I'm not alone in this journey, and it's okay to have a mental illness and still be successful.

They're not mutually exclusive. And so I was able, in my job to travel the world and visit yoga studios around the world, and I curated what is the perfect yoga experience, and it's one where someone comes in and. They immediately feel welcome. They don't have to worry about a thing, they can just focus on themselves.

And it's also opened up in me the courage to talk about mental illness and how I struggled with it for so long. I was ashamed, felt I would be viewed as less than or weak. And. As we have brought this studio to life, there's so many people who have come to us with similar stories and uh, so I feel this is way outside my comfort zone to even talk about this in such a public form that I feel like I have a story to share that we don't have to hide in just because you can't be.

An illness doesn't mean it's not there and it's not real. It's not something for me that goes away, so I have to manage it all the time and making people feel like they're not alone is a huge part of our community and it's okay. We get to talk about it.