This episode's a little ironic because the past couple of months have been an absolute sh*t show for my emotions & mental health.

HOWEVER, I'm on my way out of the bad period now & I've had some realisations about what truly makes me (and maybe all of us) feel bad - the word 'depression' has always terrified me because it feels so loaded, but it doesn't need to be that way. I'd labelled myself as 'depressed' and had this overwhelming fear that everyone would have to treat me differently and there was something chronically and un-fixably wrong with me, but it turns out a huge part of it was situational, which I didn't really realise before?

I was speaking to my therapist about it and she asked me to write out hour-by-hour what I was doing every day and give it a pleasure & achievement rating /10. Apparently those are the two things that are crucial to our happiness, and turns out, it wasn't that surprising I was feeling low as I had nearly 0 pleasure and 0 achievement in my life (lol).

I'm not saying changing habits will cure everything - but lately I've realised how crucial the simple things are to my happiness. True and genuine happiness isn't about success and 'hitting my goals' as I always thought it was - it's about connection, finding joy in life's every day moments, and going back to the basics of what we crave as humans (nature, socialising, achieving things that actually make us feel fulfilled). It's funny because I feel like I'm constantly told all of this on social media - I just haven't been listening (until now).

Remember to find pleasure in life every day, you deserve it queens. Kisses xxxxxxx

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