Inner peace and kindness are inextricably linked.

 

  Healing Depression 


Here are a few suggestions, rather than rules to follow: 
1. Examine the way you talk to yourself. You may find yourself putting yourself and everyone else down. Detach yourself from negative self-talk. Decide to get off your own case. 
2. Reach instead for ways to trust yourself more, to learn from your endeavors whether they work out or not.
3. Accept your humanity as fallible, rather than terminally flawed. Find ways to be kinder toward yourself.  
4. Don’t isolate yourself but do find solitude. Solitude is a time to be with yourself; isolation is a way to defend yourself from imagined harm. 
5. Movement and exercise break up depression. Get moving everyday.
6. If you are overeating, eat nourishing food in moderation. If you’ve stopped eating, sit down with 3 healthy meals every day.   7. Stop drinking, drugging, sleeping too much, and glowering
at the TV. 
8. Ask for help. Find a therapist who works with people struggling with depression. Talk with a trusted friend about your feelings. 

 Above all, let your case against yourself rest.    

 


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