My story is similar to so many other stories of those who face challenges and difficulties while navigating this life and simultaneously suffering through mental illness. Depression, bipolar disorder, and anxiety are the things I personally navigated with difficulty WHILE ON MEDICATIONS AND MOOD STABILIZERS. To read my story, click this link:
My OLD Story
Jim Rohn said it well:
If we want things to change for us, WE have to change. If we want things to get better for us, WE have to get better.
EVERY MOMENT IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO UPGRADE THE HEART, MIND, BODY, AN SOUL.
The secret is this: WE HAVE TO WANT IT MORE THAN WE WANT OUR CURRENT SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES. We have to WANT to change before we will commit to change.
How will we know when we are ready? When we are sick and tired of being sick and tired enough to try something new.
Since 2014, I have been doing just that, and have found some SUPER useful tools and practices along the way.
One of the most useful books I found that empowered me to literally recreate my “self” was, BREAKING THE HABIT OF BEING YOURSELF, by Dr. Joe Dispenza. This book has an audio version FOR FREE on YouTube. CHECK IT OUT! You won’t be disappointed.
The most important habit I learned about and practice daily, all these years, is GRATITUDE. Having a mindset of being grateful for EVERYTHING and EVERYONE, habituating the practice of seeing ALL things as PERFECT, JUST THE WAY THEY ARE, has allowed me to stop judging and criticizing myself and others.
Another SUPER useful thing I learned about is NUTRITION. For YEARS I suffered from EXTREME inflammation, 100% due to my sensitivity to sugar and my poor, uninformed decisions regarding food and drink. My brain was swollen, and because of it I exhibited symptoms of EXTREME depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder, and made many attempts at taking my life for 15 years WHILE ON ANTIDEPRESSANTS AND MOOD STABILIZERS.
For the last century, our foods have changed, and the nutrients we once enjoyed and healed quickly with have been damaged and eradicated. A company out of Canada created a formula to fill the void of that which is missing that affects SO MANY of us adversely, CAUSING symptoms correlated directly to mental illnesses. This pill is called, Q96 Empower Plus. In 2014, with their help, I left behind ALL my prescribed medications and started this pill-ALL natural vitamins and minerals, and have not been back to a psychiatrist since.
Google True Hope, the company that produces this all-natural supplement. The reason the Chemist behind the supplement created it was because he lost both his wife and daughter to suicide, and he desired (same as I do) to empower others with opportunities to SUFFER LESS in this life.
it took a few months for the chemicals and hormones within my body to adjust, but I now live the life of my dreams. I will forever be grateful for the question asked of me: IN THE 15 YEARS YOU HAVE BEEN TAKING YOUR PRESCRIBED MEDICATIONS, HAVE THEY EVER HELPED YOU? It was then I realized I had chosen to believe a lie, that they had NEVER been of help to me, and I became willing to try something NATURAL and NEW.
I will not bore you with ALL of the details to my journey of PERSONAL SELF-RECREATION. I will simply invite you to learn all you want to from the website, podcast, community, and worldwide movement now known as GOODINTHEHEAD.
The website is www.goodinthehead.com
The YouTube show, The goodinthehead Podcast is a place where I invite others to share what THEY have learned to optimize THEIR lives.
goodinthehead is on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, and I invite you to follow along there, with this in mind: WHAT AND WHO WE SURROUND OURSELVES WITH BECOMES OUR REALITY.
I sincerely wish you well on YOUR life journey. All I share are practices, beliefs, perspectives, and habits that have worked so incredibly well for me and I offer them to you has suggestions. Do what you will with this information.
PLEASE REMEMBER: NO ONE IS COMING TO SAVE YOU. YOUR LIFE AND THE OUTCOMES IN IT ARE 100% YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. IF IT IS TIME TO DESIGN AND CREATE A NEW LIFE, ALL I SHARE ARE SUGGESTIONS OF WHAT HAS WORKED MAGICALLY FOR ME AND SO MANY OTHERS.