About – Colleen Ryan Hensley

Colleen Ryan-Hensley

Reimagining mental toughness at the intersection of wellness and performance.

Take the reins and find the magic of embracing real life.

Colleen Ryan-Hensley

Reimagining mental toughness at the intersection of wellness and performance.

Take the reins and find the magic of embracing real life.

Finding ways to cope with what life throws at you isn’t easy. While the desire to escape is natural, what you choose to use, the amount and frequency of use, and how you judge yourself for your use make the difference between healthy and unhealthy. Often, we turn to unhealthy, mind-numbing coping mechanisms to help us escape and find the calm we struggle to get in our everyday lives…

But in doing this, you aren’t healing or creating peaceful, clear-headed states for yourself.

Instead, you’re simply distracting your mind from what’s happening around you and inside your mind.

This isn’t your fault. You weren’t taught how to express and process your emotions. Instead, you’re told to push through, and in doing so, you may turn to one of the many toxic or potentially toxic escapisms that your world showers you with.

However, there is another path that leads to more.

If you continue to avoid your emotions and the negative and distract yourself through escapism, you’ll find yourself becoming more and more disconnected from your life.

Disconnected from your feelings, your relationships and your purpose and you’ll never allow yourself to heal.

Only YOU can choose to redirect your energy, strive for more and reconnect with your life.

I know this because I’ve been there and lived it!

After spending many years using escapisms to disconnect from life under the guise of mental toughness, I have found a way to nurture healing through #BingingSober. Now, I am dedicated to helping others overcome their own blocks and find a path towards a healthier, more connected life.