Depression Can Happen

How many times have you felt that your head was down because you yourself was down?  Many times we tend to shift our eyes to the ground and lower our heads because we are down and out.  That behavior is self-defeating due to the fact that once you lower your eyes and your head for that instance, you have admitted defeat.  What does that do to us? Well it puts us in a cycle for self-defeat to keep occurring.  We then learn that behavior and start to put it towards our everyday life.  Where you felt successful before, do you know feel that you are no longer a success?  Do you feel that you are not good enough or that people look down upon you?  I know this is going to sound silly but we have to start speaking the truth about ourselves, literally say the words out loud.  When you say to yourself that you are a success, it begins the rewiring process and you can then begin to change the way you think for the better.  Many times I get down on mys...

Do you think that when people hear that you have depression, anxiety or both, that they think you are weak?  Many times I have hid the fact that I have these issues from people because I do not want them to see me in a different light.  I tend to hide the fact that I struggle with these issues, I feel as if people will look down upon me and think that I should just be able to snap out of it.  How many times have we heard that one???  Just snap out of it *eye roll*.  If it were that easy then I wouldn't be typing this today.  People who don't have these burdens don't understand what it is like on a daily basis.  Everyday can be a battle to keep your head up and to keep moving forward.  We may face the challenges of the day different from someone who does not suffer.  I want you to realize that just because you may have things in your life that will get you down or hold you back, that does not mean that you are weak.  In fact it means the...

So recently I have been apart of a new gym experience.  I was fortunate enough to have some buddies cover a six week trial period for me to see if I will like it.  I am used to going to a regular gym...  Ah who am I kidding...  I wasn't going to the gym.  Ice cream and other amazing food items won for quite some time.  With this new experience comes getting up before the sun even thinks about rising and working out so hard that I got sick twice on the first day, but I finished the workout (yay me...).  This gym is like a cross-fit type gym, for those of you who are not aware of what cross fit is I will explain: You get to flip tires and swing ropes and what not...  Very very simple explanation if you will.  All of this to tell you that I hate myself every time I do it.  I get so anxious walking into that gym in front of 60 other people and workout.  I feel so out of place that it is painful.  I feel like the other people are j...

You deserve more.  I say this to get you thinking, thinking about what you would do with more.  It could be more time, money, hope, whatever positive thing you like.  How would your mindset be different if you had more?  Would you find yourself happier and more likely to have good days as opposed to bad ones?  Many times we wish for certain outcomes in life that never materialize.  But that does not mean that you don't deserve more than what you have now.  Let's look at more time for instance, if you were told that you had less than six months to live, you would beg for more time on this earth.  You might regret all of the things that you never did while you still had plenty of life to live.  How would your outlook on this world be different?  Would you look at the world in a different light knowing that you had a certain amount of time left to fulfill what you desire?  Why wait for that moment in time?  Why wait for your last...

"We are all born to broken people on their most honest day of living" - Listener, Wooden Heart.  Do you ever think that some people have it all together and that their life is perfect?  Well you are wrong, we are all fighting some sort of battle that only we know.  Many days that battle that we face can consume us and take over our though pattern, but that is where we lose.  We lose who we are and who we want to become when we let ourselves get down.  We miss out on the opportunities that life has presented us with.  We at many times tend to focus on the negative, but in reality we are surrounded by so much of the positive.  We tend to overlook the positive and act like it does not exist, but what if you took notice of the positive that surrounds you?  What if you turned that negative thought and transformed it to one of a more positive manner.  What if I told you that you could essentially rewire your thought pattern?  Sounds crazy rig...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder- When we experience something that leaves a lasting impression on our lives.  We then relive that event over a period of time and it can either cause us to disconnect or become angry.  Many times we lash out at loved ones without even thinking.  However the emotion that many experience is fear.  Anger is ultimately fear that has not been resolved.  We fear certain situations and or have certain reactions when we are fearful and that drives anger from us.  Many people assumes that if you speak to someone such as a therapist that you are weak.  But in all actuality it is the exact opposite, you are seen as a strong individual because you wish to make yourself better.  There used to be a time in my life where I had a job that I did not enjoy (like many of us), however there were lasting effects of that job that prevented me from being happy.  I could not drive past the facility on the weekends because I did not ...

What does this title say to you?  Anything?  If your answer was nothing then that is OK and I expected that.  40 million to 1 is the statistic that you will be born.  YOU yourself being born...  40 million to 1...  Just let that sink in for a second.  Now take a look at where you are and how you feel, do you feel like you are something special?  If not then just look at that number again.  You are unique and you are special.  You made it, you made it to the point where you were born.  As you took your first breath you were already a winner.  You won the race to get here, now what have you done with it so far?  If you are looking around and thinking to yourself that you are not worth that odd then please hear me when I say that you are.  You are worth more than 40 million to 1, you are worth more than you could ever imagine.  I know that things may seem as if they are coming against you and you feel less than wha...