Ep. 23 | Breaking Free from a Toxic Marriage and Finding Purpose in Helping Others Mentally and Physically - a podcast by Lara Doll Kennedy

Today’s episode is with fitness and wellness trainer, Abigail Scharbach. Abigail and I met in a Facebook group for moms who are business owners and immediately “clicked.” Abigail is a certified personal trainer as well as a certified peer specialist. She is someone who has lived life with a behavioral health disorder who then uses their experience to help others use coping skills, find resources, and generally help them through their behavioral health disorders. Her unique approach integrates mental health into exercise and promotes full body/mind wellness. This method of training proved itself very useful to those needing assistance during the COVID outbreak as many needed the peer specialist’s mental health push as well during their lockdowns as they experienced isolation and were cut off from their norm.

Abigail’s story begins with a solid foundation in Christianity where the main rule taught by her parents was to love everybody. They believed this to be the most important rule out of any church going, Bible reading experience and focused their teachings to this golden rule. This would become very important to Abigail later in life when she found an interest in mental health and wellness. Now a small business owner as a personal trainer, Abigail focuses on body and mind wellness for those struggling. Having her own traumatic experiences with mental health, she continues studying psychology (one of two degrees she is working hard towards, the other being marketing) to better serve as a peer specialist and help lead other women going through what she has gone through.

You can find Abigail on Instagram @abbiescharbach where there is a link in her bio for those interested in training with her.

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