April 2009
40 posts
susan whiting.
about 4 years ago I was dealing with a bad back problem. someone suggested that maybe i didn’t know how to handle stress physically and so i went to the school therapist; susan whiting. that is when she asked me to work for her. i spent my sophomore year at snow attending weekly group therapies, going on retreats and teaching empowering lessons. i loved every minute of it and am so grateful to her for that opportunity. she has taught me so much about life. she has helped me identify wrong beliefs i had about my own life. she taught me how to love myself and the people around me. she helped me to find out who i am. i can hear her correcting my use of words over and over in my head. i am eternally grateful that i met her. i never want to forget what i learned from her.
everyone needs a susan in their life. someone who just gets you and more importantly… inspires you!!!
I love you SUSAN!
words from susan, words for everyone
Depression Solutions Do’s:
- Notice aspects of your life worth honoring and celebrating.
- Recognize the internal negative voice of depression and name it “depression”.
- Learn to give less credibility to that voice when it speaks to you.
- Stay socially connected in some way to other people. Talk with them about the depression in moderation.
- Get yourself our of your apartment or dorm room for at least one hour every day.
- Exercise, eat well, and develop a regular sleep schedule. Too many students suffer mild forms of depression because they are not taking good care of their physical self.
- Limit yourself from telling a negative story more than three times.
- Get a massage or treat yourself to something that will make you feel good.
- Stay creative—plan to take a fun class during your semester schedule.
- Keep your living quarters clean.
- Continue to love and hope.
Depression Solution Dont’s:
- Don’t let depression paralyze you from the things you enjoy. Stay active.
- Don’t let depression keep you silenced.
- Don’t let depression isolate you.
- Don’t incessantly talk to yourself and others about being depressed.
- Don’t over-indulge in anything.
- Don’t take other people’s medication.
- Don’t let the “worst case scenario” thinking take over your normal thought patterns.
- Don’t believe that you know what others are thinking about you. You are not a mind reader.
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When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Wayne Dyer
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“I often marvel how it is that though each man loves himself beyond all elses, he should yet value his own opinion of himself less than that of others.”
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“if we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.”
—Christopher Morley
