Stepping Outside of Your Comfort Zone and Finding and Creating Your Own Happiness with Michaela Renee Johnson

In this episode, I have the pleasure to talk with the licensed psychotherapist, author, and podcaster Michaela Renee Johnson about adopting a growth mindset to reach a happier and more fulfilling life in all the different areas of our lives. To do so, we often need to step out of our comfort zone and push through our fears and negative emotions while also taking chances with calculated risks toward a more engaging and stimulating life. We use our own analogies of hiking and taking the rollercoaster to illustrate these points. Michaela also underscores the importance of tapping into our inner truth and self as well as spirituality, to understand the what and why in our lives and to remind ourselves that criticism and compliments are on the same spectrum and they have the ability to take our power away. Finally, she explains that she enjoys therapy for helping others, podcasting for learning and expanding minds, and that she uses writing as her own form of therapy by processing and sharing her insights with the world.