Hi there, I’m Lauren Polly.
Founder of The Mental Wealth Movement
I know first-hand how a mental health diagnosis can also mean a life of labels, stigma and limitations.
Handed a set of future predictions based solely on your label; you define yourself as such. And start to create your life in line with it.
In the process self-exploration ceases, dreams of achievement dim and your self-evolution narrows to managing your illness. I lived from this limited perspective for years.
While I took consolation that I had achieved a stable emotional state deep down I knew there was more to living than stability.
Truth is there is more to living than achieving mental health as we know it.
Enter the next frontier
of Mental Wealth.
I changed what wasn’t changeable.
I discovered my own wisdom (disguised as illness) and my power to choose the life I wanted, moment by moment. And I did it in unexpected and out-of-the-box ways.
My early years of treatment consisted only of medication management and therapy. It was all fear-based, warning me of what was to come and talking circularly about my problems. I felt like I was stuck in a never-ending rabbit hole.
Despite this I did well for myself. I got a master’s degree. I excelled at a fast-paced job at one of the country’s top hospitals (where I eventually ran the department). I bought a car, then a house. From the outside, it looked perfect. Like I had finally suppressed my difference enough to succeed.
But on the inside, it exhausted me. I was unfulfilled and riddled with self-judgment. I grew tired of hiding and felt there was more to life than stability. I started seeking alternative modalities to gain a sense of peace.
Lightning struck a few years later when I found a gem of a question that changed everything for me:
“What if there is nothing wrong with you?”
This question lit a fire in my belly that began to warm my heart in the most wonderful and seductive way. Hope, in its purest form, began to sprout.
From there my studies and implementation of self-awareness techniques deepened. I discovered that I’m a gifted empath who is keenly aware of others and my environment. My entire life changed when I reclaimed these ‘hidden’ gifts beyond my diagnosis.
It was only when I started to explore what was right about my natural tendencies – and how they could be used (not masked) in my day-to-day interactions – that I felt I could loosen the reins and go for bigger and bolder in my life. I help my clients do the same.
“Lauren is a wonder. When I began working with her, I wanted to rediscover my power. What I experienced were my true self and my body. These two things opened me to an expanded awareness, which helped me realize my true identity and how I can use this to create possibilities. Working with Lauren is a wondrous adventure and a
gift you give yourself.” ~ Renee, Oregon
What I wish for you…
Chronic mental health conditions are based on the idea that being different equals being wrong. Over the course of traditional treatment, we numb out or mask what makes us different in favor of fitting in.
We learn to succeed at “being normal” only to feel hollow. Suppressing the most unique and life-affirming parts of ourselves.
This needs to change. Our differences make us great and without accepting, embracing and using them in our lives we’ll never reach our true potential. This work is deeply confronting but the reward is worth it.