Brain Health and Anxiety with Allison Liu

Allison is a brain health coach and an expert in helping women reclaim their mental wellbeing and improve both their energy and their mood. In this episode, Allison shares her journey including discovering the link between brain health and anxiety and gives her thoughts on what she thinks often exacerbates anxiety in the modern world including the media and poor diet. KEY TAKEAWAYS  Many of us don’t learn much about our brain, we are taught very little, particularly around mental health and the link with menopause. Allison began to notice the changes in her brain and mood whilst going through menopause, she felt like she was losing her sense of self and began to have panic attacks. Functional medicine is looking at the whole person and this is an area Allison discovered when looking for help with her symptoms and went on to transform her life. Her own experience meant that Allison decided to train as a health coach specialising in brain health, she wanted to help others in the way she helped herself. Diet has a proven impact on all health including brain health, particularly around dopamine and serotonin production and release. A drop in sugar, a sugar low, is linked to feelings of anxiety so it really can be the case that what you eat impacts your anxiety and your ability to deal with it. Rates of anxiety are the highest they have ever been, pointing to the way we live our lives in the modern world as a cause including diet, media consumption and other lifestyle factors. Diet is more than just food, think about the content you are consuming too including the news and social media.   BEST MOMENTS  “We learn more about our heart and our skin but nobody really teaches us about the organ that is our brain” “People don’t know what they could do for themselves” “Our food has a very powerful impact on our brain and the neurotransmitters in our brain” “Whatever we can do to try and keep those blood sugar levels stable actually is really beneficial for somebody if they’re struggling with anxiety” VALUABLE RESOURCES Link to download your free report on The 7 Best Motivational Apps That Help You Stick to Your Goals https://findingfreedom.academy/motivateapps If you would like to experience hypnotherapy, please click the link below to book a taster session. The charge will be refunded against any therapy session or product download from Dawn’s website. https://calendly.com/dkmtherapy/hypnotherapy-taster-session   CONTACT METHODFinding Freedom Facebook Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/5046568725414144/) Email Dawn ([e-mail]) ABOUT THE GUEST Allison Lui is a brain health coach and expert in helping women to reclaim their mental sharpness and improve their energy and mood. When she struggled with brain fog, panic attacks and low mood in her early 50s, she felt like she was losing her sense of self. But that all changed when she adopted a holistic approach to her health, which she uses with her clients today. As a result she increased her own ‘brain reserve’, improving her memory, mood and relationships. She now coaches women in their 40s and beyond to achieve the same so that they can handle life’s challenges with ease, face the future with confidence, and fully engage in life at work and at home. Her motto: Stay sharp for life. allisonliucoaching.com Allison Liu [e-mail]  ABOUT THE HOST Dawn Morgan Dawn is a hypnotherapist and resilience coach, trainer, mentor and business owner. Dawn has experienced trauma, terrorist attacks, divorce, being a single parent on benefits, redundancy (more than once) relationship breakdowns... and a whole lot more; and she has always bounced back. Dawn believes that life is for living and we can learn about ourselves from everything we experience, good or bad. We can take those experiences and use them to grow, or use them to shrink... our choice. Dawn chose growth and thinks you should too. We all have everything we need within us; h