54. What Can I Do to Support Myself Through Seasonal Depression?

Healing Her with Ashley LeMieux

Cloud10

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

5.0 • 987 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

How do you know if you’re experiencing seasonal depression? This is my first time sharing that I have been feeling this emotional shift every fall for seven years now. In this episode, I dive into how your history can influence your emotional responses to seasonal changes, factors that affect your mood, and coping strategies. I also share how you can turn unhealthy coping mechanisms into healthier ways and why you should build a support system. Remember, these feelings won’t last forever and you are NOT alone. Sponsors: Lands End - Seize the summer and shop for quality apparel for the whole family, use code: HEALINGHER for 30% off your summer purchase at landsend.com HIGHLIGHTS 00:00 How our bodies remember past experiences resulting in seasonal reactions. 04:00 The pattern that keeps on coming back for 7 years NOW. 10:00 The unhealthy coping tool that you shouldn’t do. 15:15 Why does seasonal depression happen? 20:00 Symptoms that you may have seasonal depression. 23:00 Coping strategies to support yourself during this shift. 30:15 Who is the support system that you mostly need? RESOURCES + LINKS Join the Healing Her Membership to heal and gain clarity in community! Go to - Ashleylemieux.com/membership Apply for 1:1 coaching with Ashley Want to feel more peace? Get your peace score with this quiz! Get Clarity Mapping: A Guided Journal to Living An Intentional Life Read my new book - I Am Here by Ashley LeMieux FOLLOW Ashley LeMieux: @ashleyklemieux Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:11.0	C. UK. in the summertime or in the fall our bodies remember and if it's something that we've even
0:26.0	worked through is still can arise our bodies still brace for impact because our bodies don't know a timeline. It doesn't know that it happened
0:36.3	ten years ago. We just feel the feelings of right now.
0:41.7	Welcome to the Healing Her podcast. This is your grief expert and friend Ashley Lemieux. Something surprising happened a couple of weeks ago that I really wasn't expecting and today I decided that I wanted to do a solo podcast episode about it because I love being able to just go deeper into the things that so many of us are experiencing, but quite honestly, we feel like we are the only ones going through it.
1:15.0	So if you have not yet listened to the first episode of our New York
1:21.0	podcast interview series after this episode is over make sure that you go back to
1:26.5	the previous episode and listen to that because we are in the middle of a New York podcast series which I'm so excited about.
1:35.3	It has been so much fun.
1:37.7	There's incredible interviews coming up, but I wanted to do a solo one because of things that you guys been telling me.
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