What you've been taught about depression isn't always helpful to actually moving through it.

And we can tell that's true because so many people are experiencing mental health issues like anxiety and depression.

I'm going to offer you a different lens that might be helpful for you to move through this.

First off, when we look at the idea of depression, the state of it, there is a narrative that it means there's something wrong

with you that you experience depression. So that means like it's not a symptom of the environment

you're in or the life experience you've had and you're having that there's actually something

wrong with you and you need to take a pill and resolve that. And I'm not saying there isn't a time

for the pill. But what happens if we actually

started to orient to our experience of depression from a place of instead of what's wrong with me,

there's actually something right with me that I'm feeling this way about the environment I'm in,

the life that I have, the choices I'm making.

That's such a different way of seeing it that instead of you're broken, there's actually wisdom inherent in the emotional experience that you're having.

What that does is it makes us look towards our feelings from a place of what can I learn from you.

Where am I life? Am I not self-expressed?

Where in my life am I not listening to what is

hurting me, to what is not helpful? What type of messages am I getting about things like the

addictions I have? What's my relationship to drugs and alcohol? What's my relationship to

relationships? We get to the state of helplessness because we need to start listening.

We need to actually allow the pain to wake us up to finally choose our lives.

Now, what happens is we don't believe we have access to be able to change it,

especially if you're being told that the reason you feel the way you do is something's wrong with you.

But imagine now if we're going from the place there's something right with you that you feel that way, then now you can actually make

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