Lauren White is a transformation mentor specialising in trauma, addiction, mental health and well-being.Today she joins me on the podcast where we take a deep dive into understanding addiction and not just how it shows up with drugs and alcohol. Lauren shares her experience with discovering alcohol at age 12 and how everyone thought she had it ‘together’ growing up.We also talk about masking our true selves, how to get to know who we truly are and why both exercising and working too much are unhealthy glamourisations. Lauren shares her tools to healing, the journey she’s still on and when her negative self talk shows up the most. She works with successful hard working and high achievers who struggle to break free from toxic behaviours, self sabotage and addiction to help them fight through these behaviours and truly break free to create a pathway of freedom to the life you deserve to live no matter what it takes. Lauren also now works for the Amy Winehouse Foundation & Princes Trust where she shares what life was like dealing with addiction, including an eating disorder and aims to inspire young people to cultivate the ‘right’ mindset. Topics we discuss:- Why we stay busy and overwork- The different types of addiction- Whether addiction is genetics or environmental- What the healing journey really looks like- How to cultivate happiness from the inside out- Masking our authenticity - Why boundaries is the root to self love- Dealing with self-sabotageLinks:https://www.instagram.com/iamlaurenwhite/