Meet the CertainlyUp team
Sean K
Founder
I started CertainlyUp after spending way too much of my life searching for ways to overcome anxiety, depression, and limiting beliefs. Knowing that life had way more in store for me than I was allowing based on fear and doubt, I now want to share the tools and techniques with others so that they can shed mental blockers quickly and get to living a full and abundant life.
Binx
Chief Security Officer
Named after Jar Jar Binks because her ears get in the way, making her crash into everything, especially surrounding humans. However, capable of hearing potential threats from miles away, those ears also make her an ideal candidate to keep us all safe.
Archie
Chief Worry Officer
No sound, bag, storm, or unfamiliar object bypasses his attention to worry. If anxiety was a dog, Archie would be its name. That being said, he has never met a lap that doesn’t soothe the tempest anxiety brings.
Out of darkness comes the journey of a lifetime.
Nearly twenty-five years ago, I hit rock bottom. So much so that my life almost ended. (More about that in an upcoming post.) With seemingly no hope in sight, I decided I had had enough, and I wanted to find how to develop hope on my own.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
I opened myself up to resources that had always been around me. Books, audio programs, coaches; whatever I could get my hands on. I didn’t have funds to invest in these, so I spent a lot of time at the library absorbing, learning, and growing.
My particular pain of choice was anxiety, depression, and panic attacks. I was determined to overcome them. Unfortunately, I would find that it was not quite that easy.
A blessing and a curse.
Somehow, despite dealing with the trifecta of pain mentioned above, I flourished in my career. Yet, my trifecta continued to thrive, coming at me in cycles. Some would call what I had high functioning anxiety/depression. Somehow, despite the growing trifecta, I continued to climb in my career, appearing to everyone else like I had my shit together. When, in truth, I was crumbling inside.
I sought different therapy modalities. Each one, I thought, was the answer, only to find the trifecta still clinging to me. This is what many call treatment resistant anxiety/depression.
25 Years Later
After twenty-five years of learning, trying different tools, techniques, modalities, I can finally say that am standing on the other side of the trifecta; on the side of certainty. How I got there is what this blog is about.
All of us have different journeys and I am not proposing that what worked for me will work for you. What I am proposing is that something will work for you. You just have to keep trying, keep fighting, keep searching until you find what works.
Why Listen to Me?
As a high functioning person who has battled seemingly treatment-resistant mental blocks such as anxiety, depression, and panic attacks for 30 years and now stands on the side of certainty, I see you and I want to share the tools and techniques I have learned along the way. My goal is to present the tools to help you make the same shift.