Bonus - Depression Diary #1

✨ How depression can come from even just a change in our life and then knock us out of our routine, causing more depression.  It is important to have grace for ourselves.  Take some time for ourselves, and bring ourselves out of it just a little at a time. ✨

⚡️I feel like an imposter sometimes, 🙋🏻‍♀️ telling people how to live their best lives, or what to do to improve them. 😳 🥂 But, life is a roller coaster, with ups and downs. 🍾👉🏼 Even after my "big" journey and my life changing so much for the better, I still struggle with my depression and anxiety. ✅ I am at a time in my life where I have it creeping up again.

⚡️Multiple factors cause this, such as work stress, relationship stress like family dynamics, deadlines and limited "me" time.💇🏻‍♀️💃🏽  One habit slips,💅🏽 then another 🧖🏼‍♀️and another.  🌚Next thing you know, we are basically giving into the depression and anxiety as we get away from our self-love habits.  🥨🥞🍡Eat takeout one time too many, stop writing in that gratitude journal and exercising 🌿.  Don't even mention the extras like calling old friends or family.  Even though we KNOW how good it feels when we are doing all of this, it is hard to stay afloat sometimes.  🐠🐠

⚡️I am here to share with you that a journey doesn't mean we have healed our depression completely just becuase we changed our life and felt like our best selves for 3 years.  🥳💕 We will have those amaxing times, but likely end up back in a different place fighting it again at times.  And that is OK.  It does NOT negate the work we have done.  It does NOT discredit us.  We still brought ourselves back from a very dark place, and now, get to use our tools and do it again.

We also HAVE to remember that it is NOT the time to punish ourselves for not keeping up on self-care or using those tools.  This may have happened regardless.