Hi everybody and welcome to an episode of Coaches Corner. Today I'm going to talk to you about

depression and anxiety and I was inspired to make this the topic of this week for a few reasons.

First, October 10th is World Mental Health Day

and the objective of that is raising awareness of mental health issues around the world

to really mobilize efforts in support of mental health.

Because our mental health is a massive part of our overall health and well-being. The second reason is I get a lot of

questions from you about depression and anxiety, so I know it's something a lot of you are facing,

and I want to support you in really overcoming depression and

anxiety because I believe you can more on that later and finally my inspiration

is because depression and anxiety are things that I've dealt with a lot in my own life.

When I was around 11 or 12, I was diagnosed with depression and put on antidepressants and was on a variety of different

antidepressants and anti-anxiety medication until I was around 30.

And I'll share more about my personal story later in this episode

but I share that now because I want you to know this is something that's very

close to my heart and since it's something I've shifted in my own life I want to share how I did it so that you can see it's

possible to shift and possibly you can shift it as well. It's a couple of things I want to say before I really

dive in. And the first thing is this, and this may be the most

important thing that I say in this episode, so really, really hear this. If you are dealing with depression and or anxiety, I want you to know you are not alone.

You're not alone in the sense that other people are dealing with this and you're not alone and

even people that aren't dealing with depression and anxiety are there to

support you. This is not something you have to face alone.

So much of what perpetuates depression and anxiety is shame,

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