Goal Setting With Depression
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- So...today is a bit of a strange video 😅 I filmed this completely spur of the moment--hence my very lived in look lol--after a therapy session. From the moment I made my first post on Bookstagram and started my self-publishing journey, I knew that I wanted to always be fully myself. Which means being messy--even on camera. So while today's video isn't as informative as I'd like since I haven't quite figured everything out yet, and it's a little out of left field for someone who usually posts cash stuffings, I really hope that someone out there feels seen. That anyone in a season of depression feels validated and is reminded that it's okay to not be okay, and you are under no obligation to explain your feelings to others--especially when you don't fully understand them yourself. Wherever you are and whatever you're dealing with as we go into 2025, you're not alone. We're in this together🤍
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Hi. I'm brand new to your channel.
#1 - You are lovely... I'm happy to have found you.
#2 - I have suffered with depression for years. I really appreciate you speaking on it. It can be truly debilitating. It's so hard when people haven't been through it and they expect you to just "snap out of it". I'm sure this video has been helpful to many people going through depression.
You are definitely a light...good things are coming for you
Thank you so much 🥹🫶🤍 That really means a lot to me! I'm sorry you've suffered with depression, but I'm so glad that we don't have to go through it alone and that we can lean on each other!! 🤍
My 10 yo daughter has GAD and she had a bad day today. Thanks for showing me a possible future for her. I checked out your channel because I just read Stale Mate and wandered over and now I love you more. Cheers, dear! I know you are struggling but you’re doing great at this living thing.
I'm so sorry your daughter has it and that she had a bad day! 💔 A, I'm SO glad I could give you hope! Life with anxiety is ROUGH, but it DOES get better! Therapy, Jesus, and patience with yourself are key. B, Thank you so much for being here and reading my books and being so kind and supportive! You've made my week 🥰🤍🫶
@ thank you! E is growing up hearing about Jesus and by the time she was 7 she wanted him to save her soul and start her eternal life with him. So now, even though her nervous system still gives her daily struggles, she is secure in our love and that Jesus will never leave her alone. She also has Hope that one day her body mind and spirit will be made whole. She’s starting reflex integration therapy soon so we are hopeful that it will help her - literally - feel better.
I now have 2 of you books going at the same time on Kindle. I was too curious to see what you meant by „ghost“ and now I’m hooked. I had no idea what I was getting into from the cover. Your world building far surpasses the Amazon blurb or cover! Please tell me there’s more from that world coming!?
I am a whole lot older than you, 57 years old and I have been dealing with an anxiety disorder my entire life. This has led to a depressive disorder and due to some trauma that happened to me, let’s just throw PTSD in the mix? So I get it, 💯! You are describing the younger me before I went to about what felt like 10000 therapists and had a very forthright conversation with my family about how things really were after hiding it for 25 years. Things were still rough with my family at first, my Mom is one of those people that is just like, just have a convo with yourself and get over it. My late father, who had “down” moments but refused to call it depression was much, much more understanding. My daughter was very understanding, thank goodness. 😅 Now I openly feel what I feel, tell everybody what I am feeling and that I will be handling it as best as I could doing what I know works most of the time. My doctor talked to my Mom very sternly and told her that this is just like having diabetes or a heart condition, except we are talking about the brain and the brain is a complicated place but for those that struggle with neuro divergent type of issues it is a BATTLE every single day. There would be no talking yourself out of it as she suggested. He said with all of the therapy I have had I have the tools to manage it for the most part, sometimes successfully, sometimes not, but that my life would not look like her life or anybody’s life in any way ever. She came away from that conversation more understanding but I would say 75% of the time she just doesn’t get it. And that is okay, I have done all I can and refuse to cater to what and how she thinks I should be. Anyway, you are right, life is too short to do anything that you don’t love or that is so hard it triggers your anxiety or depression. I look back on my life and I accomplished a lot in spite of living with all of this for the entire time. And you will too! Honestly I have learned to not set goals, gasp 😱 I know, but I tried that over and over and I would either work myself to absolutely the end of my rope, trigger my anxiety, trigger my depression and there I would be out of it. OR I just give up on them immediately because I feel the anxiety amping up and know to back off of the pressure. I allow myself a general outline of the new year with an idea of things I might do IF I can manage them. They are small steps always that might lead to a bigger thing in some distant point in the future. But they are so loosely defined that they are not even goals. I am a mega planner person too so to not set goals is unheard of in the planner community. 😂 Which just makes me laugh because planning is another area that you can do about 1000 different ways. I have felt the anxiety ramping up this week, I have no idea why this is happening, sometimes I do and sometimes I don’t. This time I don’t know. I might never know which I have learned to live with. All of this to say that I hear you and I get it. I hear you! Sending much comfort your way and relief for you as well. Always here if you need to talk to someone that gets it. Apologies this is so long but this topic just happens to be a passion of mine. Hang in there! 💕
Thank you so much for sharing all of that!! It's SO incredibly helpful to know that I'm not alone! That was my favorite part about being diagnosed with GAD was that I finally had a group I could identify with and other people who understood what I felt. And I completely agree about mental health being just as vital as physical health, but people who aren't as open to looking inward have a hard time with seeing them as the same level of importance--which is unfortunate 🤷♀ And yes, creating goals can be such a trap! It's really important to ask reasonable improvements from yourself and be proud of whatever progress you make! I love your approach about it!
And thank you so much for being so supportive! You have no idea how much I truly appreciate that🤍🤍🤍
Hi from Romania! You are so pretty ❤️ I appreciate you so so much for sharing your anxiety and depression journey. That takes a lot of courage 👏👏👏 You have no idea how much I can relate.
Please continue with cash stuffing videos. 💸 I am sure that your small business will grow step by step.
Wish you a happy 2025 🎉❤
Thank you so much!! I'm so glad that we're in this together and that none of us have to go through these hard things alone 🤍🤍🤍 I will definitely continue cash stuffing videos! And I can't wait to see what 2025 has in store for all of us 🥰
I appreciate you being real and sharing this. I know it may be hard. For me, my depression/anxiety will not go away, it is a matter of how I am handling it. Best wishes to you.
I'm sorry that your depression/anxiety is chronic! My anxiety is and I guess we'll see about the depression 🤷🏻♀But at least we're not alone! 🫶
Sending you prayers & happy thoughts; do what makes you happy & brings you joy!
I would love to still be able to get some items from you, so please keep us posted.
Savings challenges, the small top loading envelopes, dashboards, etc.
Thank you so much!! I really really appreciate it! 🤍 I'll definitely keep you guys posted as I get more things figured out, but I'm not going anywhere and neither is the shop 🥰
I feel you, girl. I’m in a very similar feelings/situation. Sounds like you have a safe person to work through it. I’m learning the same lessons almost exactly what you’re describing. That’s really good you notice what you don’t like doing anymore and how you can streamline things. 😊 By the way, what do you use for formatting? I just got Vellum and it’s so plug and play easy for ebooks and print. I’m rooting for you!
It's so cool that we're working through the same stuff at the same time! It always makes it way easier to deal with these kinds of things when you have a tribe to do it with 🤍And yes, figuring out what does and doesn't work for you and finding ways to work around it is key!
I use Atticus for formatting. It's a really good program, I just tend to want to customize things too much 😅