Anybody else working on #positiveselftalk 🙋🏾‍♀️ TW: Grief Anxiety OCD Depression Yeah, sometimes it’s all glitter no gold. For the past 16 years of my life I’ve been managing my mental health. I was diagnosed with MDD ( Major Depressive Disorder) at 20 years old and have tried everything under the sun to “cure” it. Prescriptive meds, therapy, holistic medicine, and meditation have all been apart of my journey. While some practices have proven to be effective; I’ve also learned that healing isn’t linear. Life changes, seasons flow and through these things my capacity to “push” has wavered. I’ve also been on my own for nearly 17 years and please understand that the child whom parents themself, is also the child who neglects their own needs the most. While this visual is aesthetically appealing, the audio is a fragment of what I go through daily. The tug of war of rest vs relaxation is exhausting. As a freelance professional, entrepreneur, wellness advocate and human, I find is despairingly hard to ground myself in the notion of “I AM ENOUGH”. There are many things I/We encounter daily through media, familial, professional relations and the God given 24 hours never seems like enough. —- I am learning to rest. I am learning to combat and shutdown thoughts of hypocrisy, lack, judgement, and fear. I am being intentional about the things, people and places I inhabit. I no longer find value in history, outside expectations, algorithms or premature agreements between opportunistic, low vibrational humans. I am grateful for my community, family, my partner and relationship with God. I thank God for those who have consistently walked thru life with me and those who have fallen off. Everything that happens is for a reason and my faith is rooted in truth and an undeniable purpose set for me. To those along this same path, or something like it, stay encouraged and stay connected to all the goodness and love that life has to offer. Nothing last forever. However, the “there” that you desire is predicated on the presence and awareness in your “here”. Love yourself, First. In truth, troubling times all the way To triumph. #selflove #contentcreator