Haysing Han’s identity as a strong, insightful corporate leader crumbled before her eyes. Feeling isolated and unsupported in the very place where she poured out her heart and soul, the Kool-aid she drank to become part of something bigger than herself started to turn sour.
Never imagining that something at work could profoundly change her world view, her career success devolved into a brush with death, a mental health leave of absence and a journey through depression. Now on the other side, she's a high performance personal coach, understands the pain of others and sprouted compassion in places previously lacking it.
Takeaways
1. You can become clinically depressed when things around you aren’t okay and you keep your mouth shut.
2. Seeing herself in a book about another person helped her figure out what was happening to her.
3. She had pain in her body and thinking in her head, and didn’t know how to merge the two together. It was so painful she wanted to kill herself.
4. People who die by suicide are not cowards. You get into a moment where you cannot shake it off, regardless of how high functioning you are. The only thought is “How can I end this pain?”
5. Those strong people who get right back up after getting knocked down tend to suppress their feelings. Start taking time out to grieve and give yourself love.
6. Doing nothing is a blessing. If you can, give yourself time to do nothing and become aware of things.
7. Change doesn’t happen overnight.
8. High achievers seek success. That’s not who you are. There’s more to you than what you achieve.
9. Change is a long process. It requires patience, trial and error and not giving up on yourself. You’re worth the effort.
10. Always remember you’re a child of God and your soul is beautiful.
Bio
Founder of H. Manifest Inc., Haysing Han is a women's leadership and business coach and a high performance expert. She’s one of the elite Certified High Performance Coaches hand-picked and trained by Brendon Burchard serving clients in 60+ countries.
Coupled with Brendon’s gold standard curriculum, Haysing’s coaching approach draws upon her 20 years of success in people leadership, executive stakeholder management, and enterprise-wide business transformations in Corporate North America.
She’s passionate about guiding women leaders to level up their games in corporate leadership or successfully transition from corporate to entrepreneurship. To learn more about her mastermind coaching programs, please contact her via haysing@hmanifest.com.
