#45 KENDRA DELAHOOKE: UNDERSTANDING AND USING YOUR BODY’S WIRING TO OVERCOME FEAR AND ANXIETY. FROM THERAPIST TO COACH AND WHY I MADE THE TRANSITION.

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Mar 19

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KENDRA DELAHOOKE: UNDERSTANDING AND USING YOUR BODY’S WIRING TO OVERCOME FEAR AND ANXIETY. FROM THERAPIST TO COACH AND WHY I MADE THE TRANSITION.

Hi everyone! Welcome back to another episode of the Punch Drunk Soul Podcast! I’m your host Ali Daniel. Today I have a friend and fellow coach, Kendra Delahooke on the show! Kendra is also a licensed marriage and family therapist who now specializes in parent coaching and helping children overcome anxiety and related challenges. She loves supporting families to make parenting easier and more enjoyable. She has completed training in DIR Floortime, somatic, and trauma therapies which we start to dive into on this episode and how Kendra uses her training and knowledge of these practices in her coaching business. As her coaching business has started to take off in the last year, Kendra has also had the opportunity to start speaking and presenting to parents at schools, conferences and even other major companies like Snapchat about her work.

I’m thrilled to share this episode with you guys because we get into some practical tools you can use to calm your anxiety, cast out fear, and break out of the small life you’ve been conditioned to pursue.

Kendra shares how she was able to overcome a lot of her fear and anxiety around teaching and being a coach by getting in touch with her WHY and how the enneagram has helped her understand her inherent tendencies and break through her perceived barriers. We also dive into each person’s individual wiring and how it affects how we perceive situations differently and why some people are afraid of crowds while others aren’t and how we can start to use the way we’re wired to manage stress, anxiety, fear and so on. Kendra and I both relate to being 9’s on the enneagram and how through our businesses we’ve been able to heal and fulfill our unmet childhood needs - which for the both of us happens to be not being “seen.”What I love about this episode is it gives us a full well-rounded view of how our bodies are emotional, physical, mental systems and that understanding each part will help us function more fully as a whole and have more success. We can’t simply strive to understand pieces of the whole system, we need to understand how they all work together to make us who we are and I think this episode gives us a good baseline for starting to understand ourselves in the full picture. I know you’ll enjoy this interview if you love science and a little bit of the woo-woo because we get into both to better help you understand yourself!Be sure to give us a shoutout on instagram I’m @PunchDrunkSoul and Kendra is @kendra_mft) and let us what you think of this interview!

Let’s dig in.

Aha Moments

How to understand your body’s wiring to help you calm your anxiety
Using the enneagram as a tool for personal growth
How to manage your anxiety with this 1 simple practice and question you can ask yourself
Using your WHY to help you overcome your fears more effectively
How Kendra transitioned her traditional therapy practice into a coaching practice to increase her income and conserve more energy
How emotional and mental blocks show up as physical symptoms in the body
Why understanding your unmet childhood needs weren’t met as a child can help you grow