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With me today on the podcast is Felicia.

Hi, Felicia.

Welcome to the show.

Hi.

Thanks so much for having me.

I'm glad you're here. Tell me what is your question for me today?

So I am not unfamiliar to coaching and therapy. I've worked with both and I've loved it.

And I, January just was a month where we had a lot going on.

And I just found myself really short-tempered and really just irritable.

And I'm like, man, I probably, like, if I sat down in journaled or if I, like, sat down and meditated or, you know, some of these tools that you learn, like, that'd probably be really

helpful for me, but I, like, wasn't doing them. Okay. And so I, yeah, I don't know. I don't know,

like, what's holding me back from doing these things that I know will help me. Yeah. Okay. So,

have you ever been diagnosed with depression? Um, I've had postpartum depression. Yeah. Okay. But otherwise, no. Okay. So have you ever been diagnosed with depression? I've had postpartum depression, yeah.

Okay. Otherwise, no. So the irritability, the lack of motivation, the like things just feel really hard, that those can be symptoms of depression.

And so I can't diagnose you through a coaching session on Zoom, but that might be something to look

into because that feeling like I know better, but I just can't, like I don't have it in me to

do it. That is, that can be a sign of depression. So there's that. So look into that. There's also

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