Simple Daily Practice Radio With Peggy Freeh

It all started with one decision - “I don’t want this anymore.   I won’t let this happen anymore.”  Michelle was a freshman at university.  She kept all sorts of odd hours, hardly ever went out in the sunlight and didn’t eat well.  She had a hard time even getting out of bed every day.  She was seriously depressed.     But once she made that decision, things started to change.  She decided to create a list every day of the things she was going to get done, no matter what.  Her first list - “wake up and brush my teeth.”  That’s it.  But after the haphazard way she had been living, that felt challenging and important - challenging to make even that small of a commitment to her own well-being, and important to following through on her decision to change.   A few days later, after brushing her teeth became easy, she dropped that from the list and added taking a shower.  And once that became easy, she added eating breakfast within two hours of waking up.  Slowly and steadily, Michelle came out of her depression.