Deleting Depression (Part 1 of 4)

By reading the title of this blog post, you may be thinking that I have a magic cure or pill to delete depression out of your system. The answer to that is no, I don't. I wish I did though, because it would feel good to know I could have the power to save many of us from pain and sadness. The first 3 months of this year did not go the way I had hoped it would. I, like many of us, had set goals and intentions to be the "new and improved" version of myself, yet I found myself unmotivated, sad, and eating my feelings in chips and fast food.

So, here we are on the first day of the 2nd quarter of the year and I have made an internal goal to delete my depression. Not totally and immediately, but with small steps to my own personal freedom from the weight of something that just won't seem to fully go away. The first step in my journey is to seek professional help. Now, I believe in Jesus, prayer and power, yet I also believe in professional help because Jesus, did in fact, create therapists! Since my mom died, I had bottled up my grief and tried to fight off the sadness and pain by helping to speak to other people's pain, but not my own. I feel that by seeing for myself that I can no longer bind up, hide, or push aside the issues and grief, I am allowing myself to heal. So...this is a post that I will be coming back to this month, so make sure you have subscribed to my site (www.ashleyspeak.com) so we can walk this journey together!

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