Daisy Change

Trigger Warning - Low mood, depression, pain, suicide, past hurts, written about with the intent of encouragement  Disclaimer - As always I still recommend seeking professional advice as to the first course of action if you are feeling low or depressed. All advice given is from experience only. Lambi Says - Don't let depression or anxiety beat you up you got th i s, fight to win! If you have read my last few posts you will know that as of late I have been suffering from depression.  Yet again Jet and his friends had me in a cage that was locked from the inside.  (Jet is the name I give to depression because when it shows up for me it is usually jet black) Sometimes life throws things at us that we really don't expect. When this happens we have to decide if we are going to retreat within ourselves or get out there and serve others.   It can be the hardest thing to push yourself to think of others when you're feeling really low, but it's the very thing we need to ...

Moving on and moving forward,  they are the same thing, right? Well actually no. Once you have chosen to see life as seasonal and started chasing fulfilment rather than happiness, the next step toward success is moving on from moving on. Let me explain. Moving on gives the impression you’ve buried the past and now you're going to build something new on its grave and pretend it never happened. Moving forward is acknowledging the past, for what it is , learning what you can, and then deciding that it doesn’t define you and your still going to move forward with your dreams and in life because nothing can hold you back. You won’t give anything permission to do so. Good on you! You can move on from things and still not be over it, but hiding from your feelings is not going to help you . If you bury half-open wounds then poison will fester beneath your scars. You gotta make sure that you’re not running from your yourself. Trust me it’s exhausting and only leads to making laps around th...

There is so much pain holding the walls up, in a rut. There’s the pain of what could have been or should be.  There's the pain of confusion, not knowing how to get up, or for that matter which way is up.  There’s the pain of feeling like a burden to friends and family, the pain of guilt, the pain of apathy and so on.  In short being in a rut = pain.   Being in a rut is one thing, but feeling stuck in that rut is a whole other level of pain, confusion and generally unpleasant emotions. If you’re reading this and I just described you, then you likely don’t feel awake enough do too much reading today, so I will keep this short and get straight to the point. You may be in a rut but you don’t have to stay there. You may feel stuck, but that doesn’t mean you are.  The fact is rubbish times happen to everyone, we all go through stages where we wish things would move a little bit faster like life is not being fair and the world seems to be against us, this is a normal...

The next tool the devil likes to use to distract us from moving forward in life is the hammer of fear.  Fear can come in many different forms.  It can come in the obvious form of worry, anxiety, paranoia or even the not so obvious little worries we get about the smaller things. I'm not going to say too much about this one because if I got into this topic to deeply, I don't think I would know where to stop, so rather then going into detail about how fear works and what we can do about it. I'm just going to state the 3 main lessons I have learnt about fear and then give a source list so that if you want to do further study you are aware of some of the resources available. Please note these lessons are about fear in a negative sense. I know that fear can still be good and even protect us sometimes, but I am talking about the unhelpful side of fear in these lessons.  Lesson 1 - If you give fear space to grow it will. Fear usually starts out as a thought in your head, the more...