The Active Optimist

This episode came out of the understanding of how uncomfortable our world is with emotions. Triggered by an emotional rupture in my life, I share my thoughts on how we can foster our own numbness and how we should start dealing with emotions.

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Welcome, Carter! In this weeks episode, I am joined by Carter who shares his experience with functional depression and his natural tendency towards solitude. He shares the reality of getting too comfortable with being alone and the challenges & energy expended to maintain social connections. We also talk about how our current world order makes a balanced life hard and how mental wellness must be our priority.

Check out Carter's blog Mindful Musings here:  https://my-mindful-musings.medium.com

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Today we welcome Jherlin Nunez! In this episode we talk about Jherlin's cultural history & background and growing up in the Bronx, an environment where the idea of mental wellness is absent. Also, the importance of taking the first step that opens the door of healing and living authentically. Jherlin shares his journey of  understanding trauma in the body and navigating therapy.

Check out Jherlin's photography on Instagram @jerlinpn and book your portrait session in NYC. https://www.instagram.com/jherlinpn/


Thank you for supporting the podcast! Follow me on Instagram @irinaerickson or @subsequentlydepression. Feel free to reach out with any comments or questions, I love them!

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The content shared here is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, care, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of a qualified & licensed healthcare provider.

It's about time to have an honest conversation about loneliness. This week's episode is part 2 of 2 on the reality of feeling alone and the universal feeling of being lonely.

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It's about time to have an honest conversation about loneliness. This week's episode is part 1 of 2 on the reality of feeling alone and the universal feeling of being lonely. 

Thank you for supporting the podcast! Follow me on Instagram @irinaerickson or @subsequentlydepression.

The content shared here is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, care, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of a qualified & licensed healthcare provider.

In this weeks episode, I will be talking about one of the pillar connections that we must make in cultivating a depression resilient life – the connection to the future. Having a future and something to live for is essential to any human experience, but with depression it becomes harder to keep our sights on it. Also, I will be introducing how defensive emotions keep us locked in our depressive blindness and how I reorientated myself towards meaning.

Thank you for supporting the podcast! Follow me on Instagram @the.activeoptimist or @irinaerickson. Feel free to reach out with any comments or questions, I love them!

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Kamini Menon is back! On this episode we get deep on feeling passionless, lost, and depressed as a teenager. Kamini shares how she redirected her life towards the feeling of joy and what it means for us when creating an anti-depressant life. 

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In this week's episode, we're adding a new meaning to a toxic environment. Just like any other animal on earth, us humans are effected by our environment mentally and are unable to thrive if it does not meet our needs. In the modern day, our environment has increasingly become literally toxic and an unknown number of us are paying the price with mental poisoning. I will be breaking this down, discussing what happens to our brain, and give some concrete ways to look out for ourselves.

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You must kill who you are supposed to be, to become who you want to be.

In this weeks episode, I will be sharing my thoughts on how editing or shutting down a part of our whole selves can factor into our depression because it leaves us blocked and disconnected from our true self.  I'm breaking down how I've battled the lie "I have to be smaller" and break into being unabashedly you.

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In this episode, I am joined by my good friend Felicity to talk about her journey through depression. She shares her experience as a high schooler with immense family pressure, not feeling she was valid in being sad and stressed, and deciding to get on an upward spiral out of depression in college.

Thank you for supporting the podcast! Follow me on Instagram @irinaerickson or @the.activeoptimist. Feel free to reach out with any comments or questions, I love them!

The content shared here is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, care, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of a qualified & licensed healthcare provider.