"I Gave Her the Best Mom" — Resilience, Mental Health & the FAST Framework with Michelle Dosanjh-Johal

What do you do when life keeps knocking down the people you love most?

Michelle Dosanjh-Johal is a teacher of 26 years, a poet, a resilience coach and, above all, a mom to two kids facing autism, a rare genetic disorder, open-heart surgery and serious mental illness. In this episode of One Eleven Podcast she shares the moment outside the ER that put her back in her power, why an illness of the mind is still an illness, and the FAST framework she built to stay standing, and even laughing, through it all.

We get into:

• Her daughter's unforgettable response to an autism diagnosis

• Breaking the cultural silence around mental health

• FAST: Feel, Accept, Surrender, Transform

• Why anger gets a bad rap (and how kickboxing helped)

• Her course "Make Stress Your B*tch"

• Coming back to yourself through creativity and poetry

• Why you never have to earn your worth

CHAPTERS

00:00 Intro

00:08 Welcome Michelle

02:47 "Oh good, I have the good kind"

07:27 Angry at God: "I gave her the best mom"

11:44 Mental health stigma: an illness of the mind is still an illness

14:03 Fear or love? Choosing not to be a victim

15:15 The FAST framework for resilience

22:37 Why resilience coaching

26:23 "Make Stress Your B*tch"

27:33 Sponsor break

28:57 "What are you doing for you?" Poetry and The Warrior Sings

33:42 Anger, kickboxing and healthy outlets

41:22 Courses and free resources

44:57 "Too old for TikTok?"

47:58 Authenticity vs. performance

50:11 You don't have to earn your worth

53:38 Listening is a lost art

55:09 If you're in a dark place, don't give up

56:00 Outro

CONNECT WITH MICHELLE

Instagram: @mindfulwarriorsway

Courses: Mindful Warriors Way

Free self-love affirmations on Insight Timer

If you're struggling, please reach out. In the US or Canada, call or text 988.

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