#114 - How to Deal With The Winter Blues

Love, Happiness and Success with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

Marriage, Mental Health, Success, Emotionalintelligence, Selfhelp, Wellness, Mentalhealth, Selfimprovement, Career, Health, Society & Culture, Careerdevelopment, Mindfulness, Lifeadvice, Dating, Parenting, Breakups, Relationships, Productivity, Positive, Happiness, Goals, Health & Fitness, Communication

4.6 • 849 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

What to Do, When The Dark Season Brings Dark Emotions

In the months leading up to the holidays, and in the months after, many people struggle with "dark emotions" such as depression, grief, and sadness. There are many reasons for this, including the reality of Seasonal Affective Disorder, changes to many people's health and nutrition habits in the wintertime, and the fact that for many people the holiday season often brings with it unique stressors and emotional triggers. Many people dealing with hard life transitions like a breakup or divorce struggle during their first holiday alone. For others, bittersweet memories of years past and lost loved ones infuse the season with feelings of grief and loss.

All these experiences are normal, and natural. Many, many people are dealing with these feelings privately as they go through the motions of making merry. However, because these extremely common feelings are not often discussed publicly, many people experiencing them can feel isolated as a result.

On this episode of the Love, Happiness and Success Podcast, we're breaking the silence and talking openly about this common experience, and how to move past it. We'll be discussing how to deal with dark emotions in a healthy way: when to lean into painful feelings, and how to work through them productively. We'll talk about the difference between situational depression and the symptoms of major depressive disorder, how to get a handle on seasonal affective disorder, how to work through the stages of grief, and the natural remedies for depression that can help you feel healthier and happier.

Wishing you all the best on your journey of growth and healing,
Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

www.growingself.com

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0:00.0	This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success Podcast. Stay, where did it go?
0:21.6	I've been laughing, fast and slow.
0:34.6	That's REM, of course, with Lowe, an older song, but I could not think of a better one to encapsulate and really kind of evoke what we're talking about today on the podcast, which is navigating the dark emotions of depression, loss, grief that really tend to come to the
1:00.9	surface for a lot of people at this time of year.
1:04.3	And once again, on the podcast, we are driving this here golf cart into the darkness
1:10.2	together to talk about the real things that you might be struggling with right now.
1:15.8	If this is your first time listening to the podcast, hi, thanks for being here.
1:20.0	I'm Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby.
1:21.7	I do not always talk about more depressing things, but right now I feel like it's important. Lately, even over the last
1:31.0	couple of weeks as I record this now, we're approaching mid-December here. A lot of people
1:36.3	coming into our counseling and coaching practice really experiencing this emotional heaviness.
1:43.1	I've had a number of conversations with clients myself,
1:46.5	even people that I've known for a long time that are really just, it's real for them right now.
1:52.4	And so generally speaking, I do these podcasts once every couple of weeks, but I was just thinking
1:59.4	at the end of this past week that this experience
2:02.6	just seems to be so present for so many people. I wanted to put an extra podcast out into the
2:08.4	world right now to help you if this is something that is feeling real for you lately too.
2:15.0	So thank you for being here. Thank you for listening. And thank you
2:19.0	for doing something to help yourself with this. You know, I think a lot of times when people are
2:24.3	dealing with hard things, the tendency is to kind of curl up and withdraw and hope it goes away.
2:32.2	And it can feel, I think it takes a certain amount of courage and
2:35.7	bravery even just to open up enough to think maybe there is something else and so yay for you just
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