Hello, welcome to the Chris Terrell podcast.

Happy holidays.

Wow, it is just crazy to think that this year's coming to an end.

I started this podcast off really sharing more about my story.

And I've done, you know, throughout the year I've intermixed my own experiences, my own thoughts,

and even experiences from others. And I'm going to continue to do that in the year. But I thought it

might be poetic of some sort, I guess. I don't know, to end this

podcast with talking about my own story and my own life. Some, you know, this, this journey that you're on,

this journey that I'm on in my life is just full of so many twists and turns you know you just you realize you never know where

this is going to go i'm doing a journaling exercise where i'm looking backwards you know over the years

i've always struggled with seasonal depression pretty hard and then also as the enormity of the

upcoming year would always start to loom ahead of like,

oh my gosh, look at all these things, I've got to get done this next year. I've got to lose the weight. I've got to do this with my job. We've got to do this with my family. I've got to get my personal life in order. I got to blah, blah, blah, blah. You know, you just start getting overwhelmed of like thinking of everything.

At least that's how it felt for me.

But I didn't know that at first.

So used to in December,

I would always get really... overwhelmed of like thinking of everything. At least that's how it felt for me. But I didn't know that at

first. So you used to in December, I would always get really, I don't know, for lack of a better way

to describe, it's sad. I mean, I just really struggled in December for a long time. On the course

of this journey of losing my weight and transforming my life, I learned because it's I was

looking at the entire year ahead. And now I approach the end of the year very differently.

I still get the dag-gum seasonal depression because I miss the sunshine and I love the sun and it's

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