Someone who's been depressed since high school shares how life transitions like kids starting school can trigger old feelings. They call themselves a recovering control freak and say healing comes through gratitude, prayer, and self-work, though hard moments still happen.
First of all, you suffered with depression and that was kind of what drove you into this world, right?
Yeah. I'm, and it started really around high school and I just quietly didn't know what was going on inside of me. I just know I didn't feel okay, but on the outside everything looked good. And so I just stayed quiet with it and really just suffered in silence for, for many years. And as much work as I've done, there's still those moments that come back. And I love how you guys were just talking about the workshop you were just at in nostalgia and how it can bring up all these emotions. And I think that's very active, at least in this time span of my life too, where I know you have some older kids. My son is going to be a junior and my daughter. And so there's so many things that are brought up when we have these transitions in life that it kind of feels like it hits us. And we're like, wait a minute, I wasn't expecting this, right? And so as a recovering control freak, I'm like, where were the warning signs, you know, as you step into these new chapters? So it's definitely something that I work through. I feel like I was able to really heal myself from it. But there are elements that still come up today. And, you know, that's where I get to go to gratitude, I get to go to prayer and work through those.
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