I'm really struggling today.

If I'm honest with myself, it started a couple of weeks ago. I've taken myself off to the doctor's today & am getting a full set of blood works done to see what needs a boost.

The trouble is, with a lack of energy & drive and just about keeping it together for my kids, the build up of tiredness starts to affect my mental health & from experience it can go down hill fast.

That's why I seek help as soon as possible, why I (now) tell my husband, because having suffered with clinical depression in the past I never want it to get to that point ever again.

I don't write this for pity or sympathy, but to show it's ok not to be ok. But it's not ok to suffer in silence, because I tried that & that didn't work.

I write this for all the people who can't write this right now, who just want the ground to swallow them up, because I've been there too. When you feel like you don't have a voice & your screaming on the inside, but nothing's coming out.

I write this for all the people who feel ashamed, like a failure, like there is something wrong with them, because I've felt all that too.

I also write this for all the people who don't know what to say to the loved one going through something similar, who want to 'fix' them, help them.

The biggest help is just being there, showing up & listening when that person is ready to talk.

When I first sought help for mental health issues when I was 21 I would never have been able to write this, share this, be so open. So I do this also for 21 year old me, to say it's ok, it does get better.

Not every day is sunshine & roses, but what you go through makes you the person you are going to be and that's pretty darn good!

I am extremely grateful for the life I have, my kids, my husband, my friends. I know others are not so lucky.But I do know this, everyone has a reason to live for, whether it's obvious or not, please know you are valued, loved, unique & wonderful.

So do reach out, show up, send a message to let that person know you are thinking of them.

Not because it's mental health awareness day/week/month, but because people are suffering everyday.

Mental health issues touch everyone & because nothing is more important.

To all my family & friends currently suffering, I love you, I understand & it will be ok, I promise. 

 

 

ABOUT THE HOST

Catherine Turner, your host of Leveraged Lifestyle.

Catherine has been investing in Property since 2012, with her main strategy now Serviced Accommodation which she, and now her team, have grown from 1 to 18 properties in less than 24 months.

Catherine is probably best known for her public speaking successfully training thousands of people how to create businesses that can be run from anywhere in the world on their own terms, and becoming a world record holder in the process.

Catherine is the host of the podcast, Leveraged Lifestyle, which reached No. 1 in all Business in the iTunes podcast chart in less than 3 hours on launch. Leveraged Lifestyle is all about creating a lifestyle of freedom, through leverage, outsourcing and systematising.

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