The thing you're trying to fix about yourself was once something that kept you alive.

Dr. Tanya Lea is a Navy veteran, transformational coach, and founder of Consciously Aware, with a PhD in Organizational Leadership, a master's in Mental Health Counseling, and post-doctoral study in Mind-Body Medicine. After 27 years of managing what her body was trying to tell her — and eight major surgeries later — she stopped treating the symptoms and started reading the signals.

In this episode of The Genius Effect, Tanya joins Donnie Tuttle to talk about survival versus passion, who we have to become to survive, and the difference between being and endlessly becoming someone else. They dig into why unprocessed emotion shows up in the body, why a trigger is just an unfinished sentence, and why the pattern that made you successful in one season can quietly sabotage the next. Her message throughout: you're not broken — you're a brilliant system running outdated programming, and programming can be updated.

Tanya also shares the night she quit her job and didn't sleep for four days, the survival pattern that followed her across the country, and the first move she'd give a high-functioning leader who is quietly fracturing.

Connect with Tanya:
Take the free body assessment — https://consciouslyaware.com
Tanya on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanyalea/

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