Escaping the Rabbit Hole

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Show Notes

If you're an entrepreneur, freelancer, solo professional who is also a former employee, the chances are very good that you've experienced some form of trauma at your past job. 

Whether you've worked for abusive bosses or you've worked with difficult or even bullying peers, the chances are very good that you've experienced some type of emotional trauma at work and there's also a good chance that trauma scarred you in some way.

In this episode,Tracey Maxfield recounts her experience with severe workplace bullying and how she's using her experience to help children around the world.

Tracey is a nurse with over 37 years' experience. She is certified in gerontology and dementia care and is a regular guest on well-known author and radio host Peter Rosenberger's show Hope For the Caregiver on WLAC and iHeart Radio in Nashville, Tennessee.

Tracey experienced her first episode of clinical depression in her twenties and lived with chronic depression ever since. However, nothing prepared her for the acute depressive episode she experienced in 2015.

After enduring years of intense work place stress, harassment and bullying, she plummeted into an abyss of darkness, hopelessness and despair the likes of which she had never experienced before.

Encouraged by a psychologist, Tracey started a blog, Escaping the Rabbit Hole - my life with depression, to better help her friends understand her depression. Over time, she began to heal and found that out of the darkness and despair, there is hope, there is life after depression.

Since the release of the book (affiliate link) that grew out of her blog, Tracey has become a staunch advocate for mental illness and mental health awareness and bullying.

She has met with children, teenagers and young adults to talk about bullying and mental illness and was one of the breakout presenters at the TEACH 2019 Conference in Jacksonville, Florida.

Her website was recently awarded the silver medal