I know the challenges of mood swings all too well. From the grip of PMDD to the challenges of seasonal mood fluctuations, I've been able to manage the storm and share my story with you. In a candid heart-to-heart, I discuss the complexity of embracing antidepressants, despite the heaviness of judgment and stigma, and the necessity of mindfulness to spot the patterns that play havoc with our mental well-being. Together, we'll explore how to combat these invisible battles, with a sprinkle of natural remedies and a reminder that professional guidance is a source to gather more information to make an informed decision.
As winter's chill sets in, it's not just the cold that bites but also the cold grasp of seasonal depression. I've faced this season head-on, dealing with the emotional toll it takes while juggling the joys and challenges of parenting. The science behind depression is not just textbook material; it's a living, breathing part of our everyday existence, influencing the ebb and flow of serotonin and dopamine. Here, I'll share the tale of my medication switch, prompted by the unwanted sidekick of weight gain, and how I strive to keep mental wellness at the forefront, no matter how harsh the winter is.
Safe community can be a game changer in mental health, and in this chapter, I highlight the underestimated power of group classes, family, and the healing embrace of communal gatherings. The kitchen can be a pharmacy in its own right, with foods that dance to the tune of brain happiness, but it's equally vital to navigate away from those that do more harm than good. I encourage you to harness the energy you radiate to uplift others and to never shoulder the weight of struggle in isolation.
Podcast Referenced in this episode:
The Happiness Lab: Move to Your Happy Place
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I know the challenges of mood swings all too well. From the grip of PMDD to the challenges of seasonal mood fluctuations, I've been able to manage the storm and share my story with you. In a candid heart-to-heart, I discuss the complexity of embracing antidepressants, despite the heaviness of judgment and stigma, and the necessity of mindfulness to spot the patterns that play havoc with our mental well-being. Together, we'll explore how to combat these invisible battles, with a sprinkle of natural remedies and a reminder that professional guidance is a source to gather more information to make an informed decision.
As winter's chill sets in, it's not just the cold that bites but also the cold grasp of seasonal depression. I've faced this season head-on, dealing with the emotional toll it takes while juggling the joys and challenges of parenting. The science behind depression is not just textbook material; it's a living, breathing part of our everyday existence, influencing the ebb and flow of serotonin and dopamine. Here, I'll share the tale of my medication switch, prompted by the unwanted sidekick of weight gain, and how I strive to keep mental wellness at the forefront, no matter how harsh the winter is.
Safe community can be a game changer in mental health, and in this chapter, I highlight the underestimated power of group classes, family, and the healing embrace of communal gatherings. The kitchen can be a pharmacy in its own right, with foods that dance to the tune of brain happiness, but it's equally vital to navigate away from those that do more harm than good. I encourage you to harness the energy you radiate to uplift others and to never shoulder the weight of struggle in isolation.
Podcast Referenced in this episode:
The Happiness Lab: Move to Your Happy Place
Thank you so much for listening!
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Welcome to the Wealthy Generation Podcast. I am your host, naomi Jerez, your Bronx race, dominicana wife, mother of two new BFF and food and holistic health coach. I went from living a surface level healthy life to learning firsthand how to live my best life, rooted in wellness, and get my status back. Whether you're a wellness enthusiast, a food lover or simply curious about creating a healthier, more vibrant life, this podcast is your guide. We're going to dive deep into topics that will inspire you to make positive changes and elevate not only your well-being but those of generations before and after you. Stay tuned for exciting conversations, expert interviews and a whole lot of inspiration that will lead to action. Welcome to the Wealthy, wellthy Generation Podcast with me, your host, naomi Jerez. Hi, friends, welcome to this week's episode of Wealthy Generation Podcast, and that's Wealthy WELLTHY.
Speaker 1:In just a second, in behind the scenes, I'm going to be pressing play on Instagram Live. It's a conversation I wanted to have live with the community, in case any questions come up, and also recorded for this week's episode. I'm going to be sharing my personal story. I guess, or I don't know. I guess it is story or journey, as it relates to depression, seasonal depression, just feeling down, being on medication, coming, trying to come off medication and then going back on and why. And aside from that, what are other tools and tips that I can share with you if you struggle with the same thing, like feeling down and all that and hopefully you'll feel seen and have the permission to at least get some support and some help or go ahead and take action, at least not feeling like you're going absolutely nuts, like I thought I was at some point. Alright, so let's get into it. So we're back and we're gonna talk. I'm gonna share more of a personal story about my journey with depression, being on antidepressants, about seasonal depression, all that and how I have felt, how I've been able to manage it, how I felt about it, all the stigmas behind it, because these conversations usually don't happen out in the open and it's taken me a while to even wrap my head around it, see what my own perspective and journey is and then be able to share. By no means is this medical advice. Please always go speak to your doctor. I'm a certified integrative nutrition health coach. And any further conversation? Please go talk to your doctor about it. I'm sharing my own personal journey, what I've done that has felt good for me and I've had conversations with my doctor about, and you still will leave here with tips, because I have a bunch of tips to share with you on what you can do that doesn't require medication, it's like all natural and you can go ahead and do that if you wish.
Speaker 1:So, just as a background, I suffer from PMDD, which is premenstrual dysphoric disorder, and basically what that means is that I have very intense mood swings when I'm about to get my period. Like about 10 days before, I used to start crying. I felt like the world was ending, like nothing was going right, and it was just this exhausting cycle every single month, because, on top of that, my cycles are very short, right, so I would feel good for about like a week and then the rest of the time I was just really battling my emotions and how I was feeling. Now, way back in the day, when I told this to one of my medical professionals at that time a nurse practitioner she had suggested antidepressants, and I was. I got them and I started to take them and then I immediately stopped because I got so scared.
Speaker 1:And, just as a small background, I come from a lineage of depression that runs in my family and I'll get into a little bit of what exactly does that mean, as my doctor explained it to me. That helped me feel better about it, because for a long time I would ask myself like what's wrong with me? Am I crazy? Family members would tell me like what's wrong with you? Are you bipolar? Like all these assumptions that I didn't know myself what was happening and I didn't know how to control it.
Speaker 1:So I felt very self-conscious, I felt very broken and when that nurse practitioner recommended antidepressants, I didn't really understand why she was giving them to me and at that point I wasn't deep into my journey to be like why this, why that? Why do you think this is the right approach? Yes, it can be a powerless feeling I'm getting in the comments. It can be a powerless feeling absolutely, and no one ever talks about it. Everybody is just like repressing or self-medicating in other ways or all these other things, right? So I immediately stopped taking them. I seek therapy. I seek a lot of natural ways to try and help myself feel better and I was very against medication, right? So I tried CBD. I tried a lot of different supplements that would help mood, like they were made out of herbs and things like that to help calm me down, and they helped for some time, but still it was not like a longer term solution. Okay, so I also grew up in New York City and I still live in New York City, so the weather here, if you don't know, is like really cold and the winters are very short days.
Speaker 1:So another thing, the number one thing that I want to share in my tips that I'll mention now so that you can see a little bit of what my thought process is is that I have become aware of my patterns. One of the main things that I've done for myself and I always, always, always recommend my clients to do, and I give them homework to do is to track how they're feeling, to become extremely curious about themselves, not just not judgmental, but extremely curious to see how things make them feel. Right, like how does eating certain foods make you feel, how does doing certain exercises? How you feel? Like everything, everything, everything. How does the shower feel? Everything at all. Yes, mindfulness, right, this is the time of year for depression, anxiety if we're not careful. Yes, so I'm going to be sharing some tips on that, on what else we can do during this time.
Speaker 1:So where was I? The weather, all of that. I lost my train of thought because I'm bouncing back and forth. Oh yes, is to become extremely aware of your patterns, and this is what I started to do, especially in my health and wellness journey. So a few years ago, I spent a winter in the Dominican Republic, right? So I spoke about PMDD. Now I'm getting into a little bit of seasonal depression.
Speaker 1:I spent a winter in the Dominican Republic from like November to mid January, and I did not notice how good I was feeling and how good my mood was until I came back to New York and I was like, oh my God, there is such a stark difference, such a stark difference from how I was feeling over there in DR, where there's a lot of sunshine, there is warm weather, you can be outside often, right, because you can be outside often, you are always often in community and seeing other people and just things like that. And my place of rejuvenation is the beach right and palm trees and all that, and it's just a lot more accessible where you can take a day and go, usually if you're close enough, right? So when I came back to New York, I was like that feels different, like my brain feels different. My energy feels different and I had never, ever, ever ever noticed that before, because I was always here in New York all the time and if I went away on vacation or like to travel or whatever number one, it was usually already during the summertime, right, because school break and that's usually when our parents would travel. So I didn't notice the difference because I was going from summer to summer summer in New York to summer in DR and I was coming back to summer over here. So I never really noticed it.
Speaker 1:And this was the first time I was away for an extended period of time, not doing anything special. I was not living up my life, you know I was. It was just regular living over there and when I came back I was like, wow, that's a big difference. So when the next winter came and I was here in New York, noticed it again. I noticed the shift in my mood, I noticed the shift in my energy, and it's always around this time mid-January where it becomes very difficult for me, and it's like mid-January all the way through February where I feel like kind of like molasses, like very slowly dripping, and it becomes very difficult. Everything becomes very difficult to do, to accomplish, and my energy is not there, my motivation is not there.
Speaker 1:The spark of joy that I felt doing things are just generally not there, and as an entrepreneur, then you start to feel like what's wrong with me, like do I not enjoy this anymore, do I not love it anymore? Like where's my passion, where's my energy? That's not necessarily true. All those things are there. I love what I do and I love my clients and the community and all that. It just becomes so heavy, it feels so heavy to do anything about it. Right? So that's the first, I guess, tip and part of my story where it's like I'm noticing patterns of what's happening when the seasons change, when I'm in different weather or environment, with my period too and how my mood starts to shift, and at some point I'm just like I don't think I'm like nuts or crazy, because there are periods of time where I feel completely fine. I have joy, because happiness and excitement are like just kind of two different things. I have joy in my life. I'm excited to do things, I'm motivated to do things, I want to get out there and you know all that and I just wanted more of that. I just wanted to live more in that space.
Speaker 1:So fast forward to a few years ago and I go talk to my primary doctor. I was going in for a regular physical and instead I just was like word vomit of how I was feeling and how exhausting it was to be me and how I was always crying and how I was always getting into arguments and it was just exhausting to manage my emotions right. And as a background too, I had been seeing this doctor for over a year now and I had seen her before, so she knew about this. But I was very adamant that I did not want to get on medication, and she knew it and she like helped me as best as she could and she gave me all the resources like additional supplements I didn't know about and, yeah, additional supplementation, additional tips. Like she was so patient and like informative, right, and everything would work for a little while. Right, everything I took, everything she recommended, it worked for a little while, but then I would feel again it would come back like the exhaustion and all that and the exhaustion in terms of like trying to manage my emotions.
Speaker 1:So this time when I went into her office it was September and I was just like you know, all these things are happening, it's hard to control everything, so on and so forth. So then she told me, naomi, I think it's time to try that antidepressants. And I was like no, I don't want to do that. I was so self-conscious about it and I asked her to explain more as to why she thought that that was a good treatment for me, given PMDD mostly. That was mostly what I was dealing with. We're like aware of that at the time, right.
Speaker 1:And she told me you know, you know, depression is mostly like your body having a hard time making serotonin, which is one of the happy hormones. There's serotonin, there's dopamine and there's a few others, right, epinephrine, like there's just a few, there's just a few of them, right. But she said, your brain, or people's brains usually when they're depressed, just have a hard time making serotonin and it's a hormone. And she goes. You know it's very stigmatized, but the truth is that if you need support with any other hormone in your body, nobody bats an eye or thinks twice about it. Like, if you need insulin, which is a hormone to control your diabetes, is fine. If you need some sort of hormone treatment for infertility or something like that, it's fine. Even hormone treatments for perimenopause and menopause which I'll touch on a little bit as well is accepted.
Speaker 1:But when it comes to antidepressants especially the name of it it becomes super scary and everybody wants to like, avoid it or something like that. And she goes look, why don't we give it a try? Some people just have a very hard time making serotonin and me, coming from a family history of depression, it was very likely that that was my case too. So I said, fine, I'll give it a try. And she also said winter's coming, winter's coming and seasonal depression is very real. So why don't you know? You try it for this time and then we'll see how you feel and what happens. So, finally, I was like sure let's do this, especially because winter was coming and it was just so exhausted being myself, you know, and I love me, and I love my passion and my creativity and my energy and it's so tedious when it's not there or it's like more of a struggle than normal, and I was just like you know what, I'll try it.
Speaker 1:Then what ended up happening a year later on these antidepressants? It seems like this was one of the things that caused me to gain 30 pounds. Okay, it might not be super noticeable, but I really felt it in my body and I was just like really confused as to what was happening and all that. So I went back to my doctor a year later and I was like here's all the data that I have, here's how I've been feeling, here's the changes that had happened to me. This is all the treatments that we did. And she was like, yeah, based on the data and one of the side effects of this particular medication I was on, for some people is waking and I was like, all right, well, that's not cool, I don't know how far we gonna go here. So she's like all right, well, we can try another kind of medication which is a dopamine inhibitor. We were doing serotonin inhibitor. Now we're gonna go to dopamine, which is another happy hormone in the brain, and this one in particular was very helpful with seasonal depression as well.
Speaker 1:But again I was like, yeah, it's common for certain people. So Again, I was like I don't want to go on another one. I've been doing so much self-work for so long, I told myself. I said you know what? Maybe I have enough tools to not have to go on this. So I weaned off the last ones and then I had the bottle of the new ones here in my house and I was like I'm just gonna see how long I go without them.
Speaker 1:But here's the thing it became exhausting to be me again. I was crying at the drop of a dime for everything, for everything, and that's exhausting. Another thing is that I have two little kids. They are nine and seven and they see this and I grew up with a depressed parent and I know how that felt and I know how that affected me. So, because I just needed to be well and I appreciate my sanity and it is the middle of winter when I was trying this, because it was December and I have a hard time during the holidays and I didn't want to have to explain to my kids every single time why I was crying, because I don't have a problem seeing them. I mean, I don't have a problem having them see me with emotions, because I wanna teach them that emotions are normal. There is a wide range of emotions and here is how I'm handling my emotions.
Speaker 1:But at the same time it was just excessive and it was draining for me. It's draining. I don't know if you've ever experienced a time where you're just crying, crying, crying, crying, crying and then the next morning you wake up and you're exhausted, and then the rest of the day you're exhausted. You have to recover from all of the emotions that you were trying to manage and all that. So that's exactly what was happening to me consistently, and then I was like you know what? I'm just going to take these new medications and see what happens and see how they can help me, because one thing I was telling a friend is that the environment that I'm in is not conducive to my mental health either. Okay, crying right now because I'm dealing with the same thing, oh, I'm sending so much love to you and if you wanna DM me, I'm here and I'm happy that you're here and that you're listening and hopefully you don't feel alone and you feel very validated To my podcast listeners. I'm talking to a community member right now who shared that she's going through something similar Right.
Speaker 1:So this winter environment is not conducive to my mental health and it's been proven by science, and actually I'm gonna link a episode on. It's from the Happiness Lab. It's from Dr Laurie Santos, who is a professor of psychologist at Harvard, I think. I don't know, but she has a podcast where she talks about the science of happiness, and one of her episodes is talking about how the environment can be very conducive or determining of how you feel, okay. So I knew I was not going crazy and I actually texted this episode to my friends and to my partner, to everybody, and I'm like you see. You see I'm not crazy when I say that my mental health is better in sunny places and in warm places versus here during the winter time. Here too, when it's like summer and spring and fall and it's nice and you get to be outside and all that right. So, but that's just one aspect of it.
Speaker 1:So I had to take a lot of things into consideration. I had to take my own sanity right. My own sanity versus like ego trip of what I want to do or not on these medicines. And I was also explaining to one of my good friends that I don't even really consider this medicine. I consider this a support system because it's, in reality, is supporting a imbalance of hormones that I have, and I think that's a support for me for something that my body cannot completely do on its own. And it's the same thing with, like I take thyroid medication or support whatever whatever you want to call it and between the thyroid medication or support and like the antidepressant both of them, I don't really consider them as like hardcore medicine is really supporting my hormones in my body, which is the key to everything that happens. Right, everything that happens in your body is controlled by hormones your period, your mental health, like your mood, your blood sugar, like everything is there's like a system of hormones in your body, right? So that's how I consider it and I even asked my doctor just a side note on my thyroid and I was like why is it that every single thing I try works for a little bit and then it stops working and I start getting like the subclinical hypothyroid feelings again.
Speaker 1:Right, and she's like, well, because your thyroid is tapped out and she goes. When your thyroid has like trauma to it, then it can't work as effectively and as well as well and it gets fatigued. So she explained to me she's like you know what's a form of trauma to your thyroid? And I was like what? And she's like pregnancy and I had two boys back to back. They're exactly two years apart. So she's like your thyroid's probably a little tapped out and it's very unlikely for it to perform at its full potential anymore. It's just like wear and tear, right, like wear and tear in the body. That's what my thyroid was going through. So that's one.
Speaker 1:And then the fact that, a I'm predisposed to my brain making less serotonin and dopamine, or all of that, is one. Two, the weather is absolutely not conducive to my mental health and again, I'll link that scientific podcast episode to my podcast because this will be a podcast episode and if you want it straight on here, just send me a DM, I'll send it right over to you. But it cannot be only that. You cannot expect, for example, if you choose to talk to your doctor and get medication, support for depression season or depression any of that. It's not the only thing that will help, okay. So now I'm gonna go into a little bit more of what can you do that requires no doctor, no prescription, nothing that can be super helpful if you're feeling down, if you're affected by seasonal depression, if you just need to pick me up so that you can feel a little bit more like yourself, right? Another asterisk to this right I like to do like asterisk right Is that for especially women, age is also a big contributing factor to depression and anxiety, isn't it fun?
Speaker 1:So perimenopause, which leads to menopause and then your postmenopausal all the changes in hormones also exacerbate depression and anxiety and you might feel like you're sad all the time and like you have anxiety, or you feel like you're gonna have panic attacks or all of that. And maybe you did not, do not suffer from PMDD or PMS or seasonal depression or any of that, but all of a sudden you're 35 plus and you're like what's happening to me? I'm sad all the time, I have anxiety, I feel like I'm gonna have panic attacks. Everything bothers me. I don't feel like myself. That's another contributing factor to depression, anxiety, panic attacks, all these things.
Speaker 1:Okay, so I really, really, really wanna work on validating your emotions, validating how you're feeling, because I know again, it can be lonely, it can be isolating, it can you can feel like you're really broken, like you can't talk to anybody else about this because, oh my gosh, what are they gonna say? No one else in my family or friends or anybody's talking about this. That's one or two. You might not even be aware that these are signs and symptoms that something's up and there are ways to address them. Okay, so I'm gonna go into. I believe I have five tips for you so that you can start working on this, on yourself, on feeling like yourself again, and until you speak to your doctor, if you want to, or if these things are helpful on their own for you, then that's great.
Speaker 1:So number one is what I spoke about right at the beginning. Number one is to become aware of your patterns. That's tip number one, because if you don't have any awareness then it's going to be extremely difficult to do anything about it. And by becoming aware of your patterns I really want to be transparent, that it might take awhile For me it took about two years of seeing if it would happen again. Seeing if it would happen again. So I went to this trip to the Dominican Republic where I was there in the wintertime and I was there from November to January. When I came back in January, boom, my mind said shifted and I'm like am I just depressed because I'm back from the sunshine? You know like what's happening? And I was like, hmm, I'm gonna make a note of this feeling. Next winter came same exact thing Shift in energy immediately mid January through February. I usually have to take it really slow, change my business plan, do a bunch of things to tend to myself. Okay, when you're aware of the pattern, it's a lot easier for you to have grace with yourself and then follow through on the rest of the tips that I'm gonna share with you. So number two is don't roll your eyes at me, okay, because I'm sure you're sticking, tired of hearing.
Speaker 1:This Is movement and exercise and moving around, especially outside, even if it is freaking six degrees. I mean, if it's a threat to your safety and it's dangerous, then, yes, go ahead and obviously take your safety in mind first. Keep your safety in mind first. However, do not. If it's safe for you, then go ahead and move. And obviously go ahead and move in indoor places. And I realized how important this was for me. I already knew this is important.
Speaker 1:I'm a food and holistic health coach, like I've been working out for many, many, many years. But a few weeks ago, or I think it was last week, I got really sick. I had a really bad sinus infection. You know I was in a lot of pain and I had zero energy, so obviously I wasn't gonna be out in the streets. I had no business being out in the streets, so I didn't work out for an entire week. I prioritize my rest and not spreading my germs, right? So I really started to feel even more the shift in my mental health where I was just really down. Mind you, I'm on the medication, but still I felt the difference. And as soon as I felt better, about a week later, I went back to one of my classes that I really like and all of a sudden, like I got a boost of even more dopamine in my brain, of of like all of the feel good hormones that come out when you go and move your body, and I make it a point to at least walk 20 minutes when I can outside, and it's super sunny and things like that. So, yes, movement is important, not just for losing weight or any of the other things that you do, or for it really is key for your mental health.
Speaker 1:So finding a group class, which is even better, or doing something at home, doing something with your family, is really, really, really beneficial. Why do I say that a group class is even better? Because tip number three is spending time with actual humans in real life. You can create your plans online and then go ahead and take it offline so that you can have community in person, and sometimes it's just the energy of other people, like I don't really know the people in the gym class, but it feels nice to be around other humans in real life doing a certain thing. I go out to dinner with a friend, I go out to coffee with a friend, I spend time with my family members, spending real, actual quality time in person with others and again, you don't necessarily need to know them. Sometimes I go to a cafe by myself and it's super rewarding for me, is really conducive to your mental health, and I was talking to a community member about this too and she was like you know, the art of getting together, like when we were kids, is kind of lost. When I was a kid, at least, you were always in somebody else's house, we were always getting together and all that. And I understand, like you need to clean your house before and you need to clean your house after, like da, da, da, you need to probably make something to eat. But see how you can make this work and maybe make like a little community of house hopping or something like that with a few people, so that you each take turns and you also get that community time with each other.
Speaker 1:Number four is eating, brain happiness, promoting foods. Right, you absolutely can change your health and your mood. You can help improve it with actual food. Now, what are some foods that are mood boosting? Okay, some of those things are fatty foods like fatty fish, like salmon and sardines and avocado. Fermented foods like kefir right or a sauerkraut, things like that, things like Greek yogurt and eggs, walnuts, blueberries, beans. All these foods really can help boost your brain and I know you might think like, oh, yes, cakes and sweets and all these things. I'll tell you right now they might feel good for one second because it's that instant hit to your brain, but in the long term it can actually really decline your mental health. So I really want you to be mindful and aware of that that maybe a lot of ultra processed foods might seem joyful in that moment, but long term it's not going to be promoting good mental health. It actually will help decline it and deteriorate and that can actually make you even more depressed than you were before and more sad than you were before, because those kinds of foods start to kind of destroy your gut. Man, it'll destroy your gut and your gut is your second brain and it's directly tied up here. So the whole connection in your body kind of gets distorted and is not gonna end well, trust me, then you're gonna have to work with me, okay.
Speaker 1:Addicted to chocolate? I swear it makes me feel better. Yes, thank you for sharing that. Yes, dark chocolate is actually another one that is really good for mood boosting. I would double check the sugar amount on it, but absolutely there are some amazing dark chocolates out there that I would recommend, and here I am thinking about cake. Yes, make it at home, bake it at home. So it's exactly the boost you need for your brain. But I would be mindful of buying anything like in the store that's wrapped in plastic. That's your first sign. But, trust me, I'm on for a cake. So either make some at home or go ahead and go to a bakery and get something fresh there. And if you're also coupling it with meals that are really mood boosting for you, like some salmon with some brown rice and avocado and some greens, then go ahead and have your cake. Girl, bring me some too, okay.
Speaker 1:Number five is go speak to a medical professional, please. If this is really something that you have been struggling with for a long time, seek somebody who can guide you, who can give you some support, whether that's therapy I've also been in therapy for a long time. Just talking about these things help me feel better, whether it's your primary care, somebody, please go talk to somebody. Even starting the conversation will help you feel better. All right, so don't sit in this space of just it being exhausted to be you. I know what that feels like and you're like, damn, I miss myself. What's wrong with me. Don't be ashamed because you need support. All right, don't be ashamed because you need support. You don't need to consistently be on the struggle bus when there are so many sources of support out here.
Speaker 1:I just heard another really good person I don't really know what she does, but on Instagram saying like, just because we come from a lineage of making things out of nothing, making things happen out of nothing, that does not mean that it needs to be the same for us. We have something. So if you're here and you're listening to this, you have some knowledge. You have some extra knowledge. So what can you do? You can DM me, you can DM your friend. You can talk to somebody else about it. You can start implementing a few of these tips.
Speaker 1:You don't need to be alone in the space. You don't need to feel like you're the only one, because when it becomes even more isolating than you already feel, I think it gets worse. Right, and especially us. If you do have children or if you have other people that you're around, right, like your energy really is like a ripple effect on other people, right, and there might be some people where you don't want to be giving that type of energy off. I know I don't for my kids. Like you don't even understand how powerful you are and how much you know, I guess, authority you have over the energy in your space and that around you. Right, so Do or take action on at least one thing that you believe is going to help support you from everything that I mentioned.
Speaker 1:Right, because it's just not worth it. It's not worth it to come, consistently, be in a space of struggle and a space where you don't really see the way out or how can you get out of it, especially if you haven't even identified your patterns yet, because the one thing that you can do as well, when you're in this space and you've tried all these things and it's still happening is that you can cut yourself some grace and you know you'll be back. Right, and sometimes is the these outside circumstances, like maybe the season that it just makes it a little bit more difficult. But you know that spring will come again and you can do certain things to help you feel joy and some sort of motivation and all that. So don't be, don't be hardheaded. I don't know why that came. That's the first thing that came out. It's like no se acabe salora. I hope I didn't trigger you, trigger you with that, but seriously, like, give this, give one of these things a try and just see how it goes and if it doesn't work for you, then that's totally cool.
Speaker 1:Okay, so again the five tips where become aware of your patterns move, exercise, go outside. I know it's cold if you're in the east coast or other parts where it's winter, but just go outside when it's safe to be outside. Spend time in real life with other humans, whether you know them or not. Go into a cafe on your own, a restaurant, a movie exercise class can be super beneficial and also hang out with people who you know and you can speak with. Number four eat brain promoting foods, mood boosting foods.
Speaker 1:And number five is please go speak to a medical professional if you find that you're trying these things or you really want to take the take the conversation a little bit deeper, all right, and, of course, if you do need support, if you know that food is imperative for you, if you tried many of these things and none of them have worked for you in the past, I am also happy and available to teach you how to use food to your body, to teach you how to feel good in your skin again, to help you reignite and promote generational health within your family. I know where you're coming from. I've been there myself, I've tried to manage this for a really long time, and I can guarantee you that there are ways that we can work together to help boost your mood, to help you start to feel confident in your own health journey, where you're also preventing and reversing disease and taking really, really, really good care of yourself and building your confidence, because you know exactly what you need, even if it is to help you identify your patterns and an action plan. An action plan as to what can you do about these things and build that empowerment within yourself with which actually comes with a lot of other benefits to them. Honestly, it will literally change your life. It's invaluable and you build sustainable, holistic health habits that will just take your wellness journey and your health to a whole new level. All right, so if you're looking for that kind of support, I invite you to book a consultation with the link in my bio or in the show notes in this episode, and I hope this was super helpful. I'll see you next time.
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