Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) Dec19/Jan20 Aspire Mag FINAL | Page 64

In some cases, these appropriately worried
souls may have seen loved ones languish
for decades under the shadow of diagnosed
depression, trying prescription after
prescription, suffering year after year, with
the impact of this disabling—and assumed
to be permanent—illness. And now, that
frightening diagnosis has been applied to
them personally. In that diagnostic process,
some have even been told, “This is something
you will struggle with for the rest of your life.”
What could be more depressing than that?
Fostering a More
Hopeful View of
Depression
In those circumstances, with those worried
clients, it is a joy for me to be able to share
with them a more hopeful and empowering
message about their disorder. I tell them
- You can learn to heal from depression.
You can learn to move past the conditions
that otherwise can feed your depression,
year after year. You can CHOOSE healing.
You can intentionally FOSTER emotional
wellness. This disorder doesn’t have to be
permanent. You can truly learn how to heal
from this. And most joyously, once you know
how to do these things for yourself, you can
apply the same lessons and strategies to
help your loved ones, friends, children, and
others in the circle of your personal influence.
You see, the “TV version” of depression
– that commercially advertised version
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...the human body
possesses the capacity
to heal itself, from the
inside out; and that a
healer’s job is to help
activate and strengthen
those innate healing
capacities within their
patients.
that we all “know” about—that’s just one of
many alternative views about this illness.
Please keep in mind what a commercial
advertisement actually is. It is a doorway
into a product. It is a carefully polished
message, designed to sell a purchasable
resource to as many people as possible,
for as long as possible, for as high a price
as possible. It is an exquisitely crafted,
perfectly
photographed,
convincingly
acted, strategically targeted message,
sent out to the masses for one driving
reason - to sell product.
I want you to know at the outset – this highly
advertised, well-funded view of depression,
trumpeted through the media by means of
skilled actors paid to impersonate actual
doctors – this is one and only one of many
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