Note. 2021 was an interesting year for me. It brought me a lot of lessons that I had never encountered before and I’m writing about some of them below. Part 1 focuses on dealing with tough times, emotions, the health of the mind, and one’s sense of self 1. 🕯️Deliberately choose hope. Sometimes, you can’tContinue reading “11 things I learned about dealing with challenges, emotions, & mental health in 2021 (pt. 1 of 3)”
Category Archives: mental health
Two effective ways to fight off depression
Depression has a remarkable way of making you feel like everything about yourself, your life, and this world is horribly beyond repair. Waves of depression can completely shift your thinking into a negative, heavy, and hopeless state of mind where no solutions to your problems can be seen anymore. Besides trying to take care ofContinue reading “Two effective ways to fight off depression”
ladder rungs
Sometimes, it feels like you’re falling, and the longer you keep falling, the darker your surroundings become. Like the ground just got swept out from under your feet and there is nothing that will help you get back up. Like there are no more options left to try. Sometimes, it feels like there is noContinue reading “ladder rungs”
park bench thoughts
I visited a park last winter on one snowy and early morning, and I wanted to record my thoughts and observations that came up from that visit. This visit was during the days when I was going through a wave of depression that was sucking a lot of hope out of me. So I gotContinue reading “park bench thoughts”
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