239: When You're Struggling to Hang On
Vibrant Happy Women
Jen Riday
4.8 • 671 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, I'm opening up about my struggle with exhaustion lately as well as the mental health struggles of those closest to me. I know how important meeting our basic human needs are, and that meeting those needs is harder when you're feeling low. I'm sharing how to meet those needs in new ways, how to support someone you love living with depression, and how to support yourself through this time.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Vibrant Happy Women Podcast, episode number 239. This one's all about |
| 0:06.6 | when you're struggling to hang on. Stay tuned. Hi, I'm Jen Ridey, and this podcast is for women |
| 0:13.3 | who want to feel more vibrant, happy, aligned, and alive. You'll gain the emotional, |
| 0:19.0 | physical, and spiritual tools you need to get your sparkle back |
| 0:22.5 | and ensure that depression, anxiety, and struggle don't rule your life. Welcome to the Vibrant Happy |
| 0:28.8 | Women Podcast. Hey friends, this episode is a sensitive one, but an oh so important one. If you've been struggling in any way with everything |
| 0:42.6 | that's been happening, feeling like you're slogging through mud rather than having a light |
| 0:48.2 | spring in your step like you might have had in 2019, this episode is for you. Or if you know another human being, a friend, a relative, |
| 0:57.7 | who is struggling with being happy, struggling with energy, struggling with mood or mental health, |
| 1:04.4 | this episode is also for you. So lately, I've had some moments of struggle. My oldest was in a terrible car accident a while ago. I don't |
| 1:16.7 | know how many weeks. And then a week later, my 15-year-old fell out of a tree trying to rescue a cat. |
| 1:24.7 | So I've had my own mental health moments. Luckily, my tools have been working |
| 1:30.0 | pretty well. I've used feel it to heal it, where you essentially sit very still and go inward, |
| 1:37.6 | kind of like you might do with a natural childbirth, and you just feel and breathe and handle those emotions, birthing and emotion, right? |
| 1:47.1 | So when my son had his accident, I had a ton of adrenaline. I breathed through for about |
| 1:52.1 | three hours and then I moved that on through so it didn't get stuck. And then when my son |
| 1:56.9 | fell out of the tree, you know, only one of us could go to the hospital. One of us could go to the surgery. |
| 2:03.1 | So I chose to help out with the surgery. |
| 2:05.9 | It ended up being fine. |
| 2:07.4 | I managed my thoughts. |
| 2:08.6 | I did a brain download. |
| 2:09.7 | I did a thought table. |
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