Depression Life Coaching Tucson AZ

Is Depression Making You Feel Hopeless, Unworthy, and Trapped?

Do you feel chronically unhappy or sad most of the day? Have you lost interest in activities you used to enjoy? Have you experienced significant weight loss, weight gain or a decrease/increase in appetite? Maybe you have difficulty sleeping or find you feel exhausted and struggle to get out of bed. If you answer yes to some of these questions, you may benefit from depression life coaching Tucson AZ.

Do you have recurrent ideas of death or suicide? Have you made a suicide plan or attempted suicide?

Do you wish the endless, painful, exhausting thoughts of hopelessness and unworthiness would leave forever so that you could experience pleasure and satisfaction in your life?

Maybe you feel noticeably slowed down or agitated throughout the day. Perhaps you feel fatigued or unable to muster up energy and enthusiasm. Do you have feelings of worthlessness or extreme guilt, even for things that you cannot control?  Perhaps you have difficulties with concentration or the ability to think, which may make you indecisive or stuck. You may feel as though nothing is quite worth the effort.  Maybe you feel weighted down and unable to pull yourself out of the fog.

Take Heart.  You are struggling with Depression. You Are Not Alone.

If you relate to some or most of the above symptoms you may be struggling with depression. This very painful state of mind is extremely common in our society.

Depression hurts. It robs you of joy. It keeps you awake at night. Sometimes you feel that no matter what you do, it always returns. Your thoughts go round and round as you try to understand what is happening, what your sadness means and what you can do to feel better. This is often called ‘rumination’. Rumination is a common piece of depression.

But even if you are facing depression, you are not broken or lost. In the very first stages of depression, it is not the depression itself that brings you down, but the way you react to it. The answer is not to ‘just snap out of it’ or to ‘think your way out of it’.  In fact, this can lead to further going into the downward spiral. You can't simply “do”....you have to learn to “be”. Then the wisdom of the emotion will start to make sense. Sounds impossible, I know, but it is true. After many years as a psychotherapist, I have never found “thinking “ gets one out of “emotional” states. But with help and support, you can begin to change your perception of yourself, renew your energy, and begin to live a full, satisfying life again.

Through Depression Life Coaching Tucson AZ You Can Gain a Sense of Hope and Well-Being

For over 25 years I have been practicing and teaching mindfulness meditation in order to help people find lasting relief from depression. No matter how hopeless and stuck you feel, the cycle of chronic unhappiness can be broken once and for all. I offer all three levels of healing: cognitive, emotive, and somatic therapies, truly the complete package of depression treatment.  Over the last decade in the field of psychology, the combination of Eastern and Western techniques has been very successful in breaking the cycle and helping people face life’s challenges with greater resiliency.

The Eastern technique of Mindfulness Meditation Stress Reduction Therapy (MMSR Therapy) can help you stop believing your thoughts. Although we all share this habit of trusting what pops into our mind, thoughts are just concepts, changing and entwining and dancing all over each other ad infinitum. In other words thoughts can go on and on and   accomplish little other than more “what ifs” more worries, more unhappiness. By practicing MMSR therapy, you can learn how to determine which thoughts are actually useful to you and begin to let the other thoughts come and go. This therapy, combined with the Western practice of examining your thoughts with some very precise questioning, can indeed cause significant decrease in chronic depression  You can begin to examine your true emotions, rather than your endless thoughts. In addition, I can help show how through less thought and more pure emotion, the wisdom inherent in everyone can arise. With support, you can allow your own wisdom to emerge.

You may have questions about depression treatment...

Won't depression life coaching Tucson AZ take too much time?

I invite you to consider how much time you have already dedicated to depression. How much of your life have you lost to worry or self-criticism? Everyone has challenges, but you deserve to live a happier, lighter life. I invite you to try something different that has huge success in the world today. I have witnessed recovery from depression over and over again. I am an expert in depression life coaching Tucson AZ, and I can guide you toward healing.

I feel too hopeless and exhausted to make a call.

Sometimes it is necessary to add some pharmaceutical treatment to your depression life coaching Tucson AZ. This is done with the help of a trustworthy psychiatrist. With small doses and a lot of monitoring, you need not fear that you will have no control over how you are feeling with the drugs. I have seen medication, in combination with the Eastern and Western therapies I mention, help many people get out of the black hole of depression. It need not be used forever, but as a “jump start” to get over a difficult transition.

A naturopathic doctor (N.D.) can help you with emotional imbalance by using herbs and nutritional supplements, if you prefer.

What to do next? If you are tired of dreading your days  and moving through a fog, I suggest you email me to set up a free consultation by phone or in person. I also offer Skype to my clients. Don't wait. You have nothing to lose but your depression.