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Seasonal Affective Disorder: Let's Chat About Seasonal Depression & How To Overcome It
Feb 28, 2025
Let's Chat About Seasonal Depression, (also known as, Seasonal Affective Disorder) & How To Overcome It
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today I want to talk about something
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that is a little unheard of or just less
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spoken of it's very common and many
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people really don't speak on it or if
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they do they don't talk about it like
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it's just something serious so I'm gonna
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be talking a little bit more in bringing
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a bit more awareness to seasonal
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depression if you stay in a climate or a
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state or a part of the country or the
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world that goes through long winter
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seasons that can be pretty dark pretty
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cold rainy gloomy then you know exactly
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what I'm talking about when I mentioned
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seasonal depression so today I just want
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to just talk a little bit more about it
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and share my own experience and if you
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two have experienced something like this
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or you do so pretty often then I want
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you to comment below and let me know
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some of the things that you do to
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overcome this seasonal depression and
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I'm going to be sharing with you all
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some of my own tips and some things that
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I typically do during the winter season
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months so that I don't get so deep down
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into seasonal depression that it affects
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my standard of living and affects those
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around me and how I care for my children
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hey Google what is the definition of
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seasonal depression according to
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Wikipedia seasonal affective disorder is
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a mood disorder subset in which people
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who have normal mental health throughout
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most of the Year exhibit depressive
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symptoms at the same time each year
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commonly but not always in the winter
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time with reduced sunlight it seems as
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if recent they've been calling its
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Seasonal effective disorder to take off
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basically the fact that it's a
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depression so a mayoclinic.org it says
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seasonal affective disorder or seasonal
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depression is a type of depression
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that's related to changes in Seasons
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which begins and ends at about the same
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times every year so basically during the
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cold fall or winter month if you are
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like most people with sad your symptoms
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start in the fall and continue into the
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winter months well I said that which
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basically just sucks your energy making
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you feel Moody these symptoms often
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resolve during the spring and summer
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months so the symptoms of seasonal
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depression or a seasonal affect if
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disorder is feeling listless sad or down
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most of the day nearly every day losing
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interest in activities you once enjoyed
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having low energy feeling sluggish
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having problems with sleeping too much
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experiencing carbohydrate Cravings
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overeating and gaining weight having
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difficulty concentrating feeling
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hopeless worthless or guilty and having
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thoughts of not wanting to live
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oversleeping appetite changes especially
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or craving for high Foods that's high in
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carbs weight gain tiredness low energy
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per I mean the list just goes on and on
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and on and this is a very real thing
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that most people
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but even more commonly most moms
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particularly stay-at-home moms
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experience as a stay-at-home mom we
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already spend most of our time inside of
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the home aside from that we have less
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contact with the outside world we have
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less time to spend with friends and
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families on outings and Gatherings and
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things like that we don't wake up every
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morning and leave the house and go to a
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nine to five job as a stay-at-home mom
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again we spend most of our time in the
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house so because of that we have less
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opportunities to get like fresh air
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sunshine and sunlight but we can
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normally get it just by opening up our
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Windows opening up the curtains going
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for a walk outside sitting on the patio
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things like that when it's cold outside
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not only are we discouraged from going
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out because of how cold it is we don't
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want to take our little ones out there
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most of the time I don't want to go out
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there and freeze either
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um there's less enjoyable activities
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that you can do throughout the cold
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winter months and even if you do it's
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difficult to actually find the Sun so
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it'll be light outside during the day
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but light and sunny are two different
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things and so you're still missing out
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on the sunlight that you kind of like
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need as a stay-at-home mom to feel
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energized and get that vitamin D and
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things like that so that's where
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seasonal depression comes in for me many
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of the symptoms that were listed on Mayo
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clinic.org does affect me most
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specifically for me it is the sleeping
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in late or wanting to sleep more having
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low energy loss of interest and things
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that I used to enjoy and kind of just
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being moody when I wake up and I look
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outside and it's gloomy the house is
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darker than it normally is in the
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summertime because there's no sunlight
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coming in so my mood kind of just
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resembles what's happening around around
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me so what do I do in those seasons and
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when I start to feel seasonal depression
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so there's my little one he is almost
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four years old now so it's definitely
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gotten better for me as a stay-at-home
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mom and dealing with seasonal depression
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but um mostly because of this guy so
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like he's my reason why he's my reason
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to get up and do what needs to be done
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and to just not allow that mood to
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affect me because if it affect me
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there's a good chance that it's gonna
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affect him too so there's my first thing
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is find something that's bigger than the
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circumstance find something that's
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bigger than a seasonal depression I get
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that you
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can be affected by it I do and it's so
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so so so so so so hard but I asked
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myself which one can affect me more that
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moodiness those dark days the gloominess
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outside or my child's mood his
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temperament how he feels I literally
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just get kind of scared like
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I dread it like it terrifies me like
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towards the end of the summer when I
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know that the sun is starting to leave
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us and fall and winter is approaching
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because I've had Seasons where it was
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pretty bad days full of like tears and
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just thinking something was wrong with
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me so we searched for many many reasons
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when it's pretty much just the fact that
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we need a little bit of sunlight we need
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a little bit of fresh air we we need
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something to pick us up so what do we
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replace
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that with other reasons and other things
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that we can use to lift us up and pick
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us up other things that puts us in a
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good mood and we have to go out and
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search for them and find them because
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it's not going to come naturally during
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those cold winter months you're not just
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going to wake up and it's shining down
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at you so we kind of have to either put
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it in front of ourselves or go and look
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for it standing at my window you can see
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what it looks like it looks pretty
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gloomy out there right trees are dead my
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flower bed is empty it's pretty darn
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gloomy out there so what can we do the
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biggest thing for me is a change in my
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mindset because I know that seasonal
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depression is something that affects me
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I tell myself it's gonna affect me I
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know it's going to affect me and so I
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wake up and I'm already like
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affected by it like I said I go into it
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afraid so but opposite thing of what we
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can do is tell ourselves
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this season it's not going to affect me
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I'm not going to allow it to hinder me
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I'm not gonna allow it to hurt me or my
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family not this time this time I'm gonna
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overcome it get up with that mindset and
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we find things to be thankful for
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thankful for Life thankful for good
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health thankful for our babies thank you
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for our spouses thankful for a
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comfortable home because there are
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people there are families there are
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cultures in this world that don't even
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have comfortable homes don't even have
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clean water they may have sunlight but
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there are other things that they lack so
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just think of the things that we are
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thankful for that's a start maybe that's
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something that we can be uplifted by and
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to just be more grateful if you have
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like a patio a deck or porch or anything
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like that if you can set it up to where
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you can access it even during the cold
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months put like a little bonfire where
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you can go out and enjoy some more is in
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fires with your family put up like one
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of those projector screens where maybe
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you and your family could have like
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movie Nights outside with like blankets
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and things like that close it off so
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that it is enjoyable even during the
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colder months and when it's like really
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really really cold maybe every week
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schedule in outing something to do with
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your little one or with your spouse or
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with your family go out to eat find a
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museum find things that you can do so
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that you're not always in the house one
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thing about me is because I am always
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home I have turned into a homebody I
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really want to go places so if I'm not
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going somewhere like for family or for
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my little one I'm normally in the house
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like I'm such a homebody so by going
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more places it just makes me want to be
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at home even more it makes me appreciate
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being in the house even more because I'm
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exhausted from just People Inc so that's
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another thing that I do that is
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something that helps me I have also
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learned that using it as a season of
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comfort and a season of reflection
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intentionally helps so I set a goal for
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myself and I work Twisted every day when
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I'm so focused on my goal and so focused
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intentionally on something else it helps
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me Focus Less on boredom I'm just
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sitting there in one spot staring out
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the window and seeing how gloomy it is
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out there
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what are you doing
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we can often like be so busy that we
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forget to just pause and spend time with
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families so one thing we do is have
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movie nights and after dinner we cuddle
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up on the sofa in front of the fireplace
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and have a glass of wine with my husband
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and we just relax we spend time together
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we enjoy a hot cocoa and things like
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that using it intentionally as a season
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of rest if I tell myself that the
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purpose of that season because there is
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a season and a time for everything if I
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tell myself that the purpose of that
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season is to actually rest like force me
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to rest because it's too cold I'm not
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going anywhere if I tell myself it's
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forcing me to rest then I'm gonna know
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that that season has a purpose and a lot
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of times what we look for in life all of
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us as humans as individuals even those
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who are not affected by seasonal
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depression or seasonal affective
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disorder is we all yearn for a purpose
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we all look for that it just makes us
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feel better
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when we have a purpose so again looking
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at our little ones in our family that's
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a purpose intentionally setting a
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purpose for every season it's still so
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very hard for me like my goal is to move
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into a state that's like sunny all year
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long that's my goal I want to move to
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Florida so ultimately since my goal is
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to move to Florida I know that it's
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going to take some time and some work
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for me to get there I want to spend five
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years updating our home so that once
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we're ready to sell it we can sell it
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for more than what we purchased it for I
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also think that if we're gonna have
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another baby I'll be 29 this year I told
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myself I wanted to have my second kid
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before I was 30. I don't know if we're
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planning to have another kid I would
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want to be here closer to my mother
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before I had another kid like once I
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moved to Florida I'll still be able to
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come back and visit people very much
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often but
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to have like that person that is going
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to be there like when I have my baby to
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watch and keep my first child I want my
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mom to be there I also love my OB so
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very much in my Midwife so I want to
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have my second baby here so that is what
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I'm focusing on for the time being is
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setting ourselves up getting our
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finances together getting our home
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together and getting our you know selves
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together so that we'll be in the
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position to purchase a new home still
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our current home and move to Florida
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within the next four years so because I
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set that goal for myself during those
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months where I feel like seasonal
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depression May seep in it's gonna make
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me want that gold even more it's gonna
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make me want to move to the sunny State
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and things like that so in order for me
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to get there I have to work hard at
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making sure that I get everything you
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know prepared and set so that we're
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ready to do so when it's time so it's
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gonna push me it's gonna drive me so
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that is what I'm gonna focus on during
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this you know season but again if that's
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not you know you if you're not looking
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to move to a sunny State there are still
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so many ways that you can not allow
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seasonal depression to affect you in a
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way that's going to be harmful to your
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health or affect your family and those
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around you so find things to replace
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what you lost during the summer months
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things that uplift you things that bring
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you Joy things that make you happy
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sometimes for me it it's just prayer
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daily prayer
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it gets me through anything in life so
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when I wake up and I say a prayer and I
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read my devotions it just gives me this
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sense of peace that no matter where I am
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in life no matter what season I'm in in
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life I can accomplish anything and be at
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peace in doing that so if you are a
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Christian or religious and you know you
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believe in God that is something that I
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highly encourage you to do is wake up
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and pray and ask God for exactly what
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you need on that day even before you get
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out of bed if it's difficult for you to
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get out of bed so if you struggle with
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seasonal depression I get you I
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understand and know that you are not
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alone especially if you are a
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stay-at-home mom I completely understand
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I completely get you you're not along
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seasonal depression is very real don't
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allow anyone to tell you that seasonal
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depression is not real because when we
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do that we do not put ourselves in a
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position to be able to overcome it
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because we're not focusing on it we
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don't label it as reality as a real
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thing so know that is definitely a real
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thing but it doesn't have to be
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something that is bad know that seasonal
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depression is not bigger than you it's
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not bigger than your goals it's not
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bigger than your children it's not
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bigger than your family and remember
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every single day is a new day so if
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maybe it affected you pretty bad
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yesterday that doesn't have to be the
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case for today and it doesn't have to be
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the case for tomorrow but you have to
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intentionally try you can't give up you
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have to keep working at it Mama and it's
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going to be okay so I'm hoping that with
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this video it you know gave you someone
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that you can relate to someone who
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understands you so that you know that
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you are not alone my name is heaven I am
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create helpful relatable motivational
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people all around the world so again
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thank you so much for watching this
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video if you stay through to the end I
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appreciate you so much and I hope that
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you will have a great week that'll be
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all for today until next time
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