Karena Dawn on How Her Mom’s Mental Illness Inspired Her Fitness Empire

Karena Dawn on How Her Mom’s Mental Illness Inspired Her Fitness Empire

Tone It Up Co-Founder, entrepreneur, and bestselling author Karena Dawn joins us via Skype for an impactful discussion on healing and living in your truth. She gets real about early struggles with her mom’s paranoid schizophrenia diagnosis and talks about moving past the pain which she chronicles in her new memoir, “The Big Silence: A Daughter’s Memoir of Mental Illness and Healing.” She also gets a special message from her dad that will touch your heart.

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ABOUT THE BIG SILENCE

WE ARE HERE TO BREAK THE SILENCE, TO BE A RESOURCE AND TO SUPPORT CULTURAL CHANGE IN MENTAL HEALTH.

The mental health foundation was founded in 2021 by Karena Dawn, a wellness entrepreneur and leading mental health advocate, based on her experiences growing up in a family impacted by mental illness (shared in her memoir, The Big Silence). It’s our goal to support people’s mental health journey from childhood to adult and to create a more joyful and loving place. 

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READ THE MEMOIR

Founder Karena Dawn shares her personal story in The Big Silence: A Daughter's Memoir of Mental Illness and Healing, shining a light on the eternal struggle we all share—how to move past the pain and suffering of our personal battles to experience life’s joys. 
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