The issue with depression and anxiety and a lot of the things that we're diagnosed with,

myself included, is that...

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Pulling back and seeing that lens, oh okay, here's that tendency to compare myself down again,

that at least gives me the opportunity to create a new choice, which brings us to the next stage

and why my book is called The Work, because listeners and myself include, oh, many of us could

resonate with this, yes, I'm a overachiever, I have that part in my mind, yet now what? That part

is still there, coloring our experiences, so then it is the work of refocusing my attention,

paying less focus, you know, because that's our most powerful tool for many of us to begin,

not spending time, spending down that framework, spending down that story, ending up feeling so

terrible about myself, pulling my attentional focus away, and putting it elsewhere is the best

thing we can do for ourselves. To begin, of course, the journey of unpacking and unlearning

those deep beliefs. Do you think a depressive state comes from an obsessive thought process?

Is that what I'm hearing it comes from? Like the more you think and ruminate on, I'm not enough,

I'd never have this, I come not worthy, I'm not deserving, the more I ruminate on it for longer,

longer, is that what's going to put me in that state of being? It's one of the factors, it's not

the only, and because I would come up against this idea of, and I think a lot of times in the field,

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