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This podcast is a part of the Amazing Media Network, a community of podcast for women by women. Hey loves, welcome to Destination Heal, a podcast where we obsessed over giving women the tools that they need to choose happiness and create more joyful moments.

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So on this episode I'm going to talk about my depression a little bit because I firmly believe

that feelings, our feelings need words. Normally I try to go with the ebbs and flows of life,

the ups and downs, but most of the time you never really know that you've been up until the

down comes. And for me the down comes when the leaves start to fall and turn brown, head to the ground.

The stores choke the shoddy with the smell of pumpkin spice and the winter

Hawk begins to you know show his ass at night. I get a little antsy inside and

I dread leaving the house. I have a real bad problem or trouble

rather parting with my comforter and I spend most of my days held hostage by the never-ending chatter of my

brain. The down makes it hard for me to show up for myself and for others. Sometimes the down makes it harder for me to laugh.

My normal 400 pound cackle shows up as a little faint giggle.

And the down often makes me wonder if life would be better on the other side. I think about heaven a lot. I think about what my

mom is doing up there and sometimes I wonder if heaven is as draining as life is.

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