Ever been off the grid?
Camping, maybe. Or holed up for a week at a lake house. At night, things are so quiet you can almost hear the stars.
But at the end of your week, it’s back to reality—right?
Not so for Jenny Schell, who spent much of her childhood growing up in a tiny cabin on Pike’s Peak in Colorado.
Life on “America’s Mountain” was challenging, to say the least. With no electricity and the nearest running water a mile-and-a-half away in town, things were about as “back to basics” as you can get.
As if that weren’t difficult enough, family violence became a part of her older childhood… And reared its head again later in life.
That is, until she settled down with Chris, the long-lost friend who became her husband. Together, they founded Design Rangers, an award-winning Colorado design agency.
If you’ve read Chris’ story—he’s also a MindFix client—you’ll already know that Design Rangers is successful by most definitions of the word.
But Jenny and Chris found themselves somehow unable to dream or plan for the future.
The past is the past—but it can still get in the way of what’s to come
When Jenny started MindFix, she’d already been “looking at herself” for a while.
“I had been trying to work through some of my issues for a long time… Talking to my mom, going through therapy, trying EMDR, reading self-help books, and so on.
“But I could never shake the feeling that I just wasn’t valuable, either in my business or in life.”
This feeling left her unable to effectively manage employees at work.
It made it nearly impossible to sit down and be “taken care of” after an injury left her unable to walk for weeks.
And, understandably, it affected her ability to plan any kind of future goals, either for her marriage of nearly two decades, or the otherwise thriving business she and Chris ran.
