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About Kara-Leah GrantKL's the founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Yoga Lunchbox, mother to a toddler and passionate about both writing and yoga. She lives in Wellington, teaches yoga and is excited about heading make into the workplace. She also loves to cook while blasting dance music and reliving her go go dancing days.
Thanks for this article Kara-Leah! From my own experience that all seems to make a lot of sense. Medical and psychological explanations seem a little incomplete to me, like they don’t address the root cause. Too often we try and fit ourselves into what society and our families want for us and lose our ‘inner compass’. This can lead to feelings of being trapped or not in control of our own lives. I guess depression can be almost an (unpleasant) way of escaping this bind. What we really need to do is to get some help to find and follow our bliss
Hey Liana,
I think you summed it up beautifully here – all in one comment! Thanks for stopping by
KL
It’s an oldie, but a goodie!
I find the worse things to do about it are things you think you what to do. For example, isolating yourself and bottling it up. For me, not being so great socially, I find it hard to talk about it at all. But yoga is a safe place for me and once I really get into it, my depression melts away.
Peace xoo
Hey Tash,
Good to see you digging around in the archives
Depression can certainly teach us that what we feel like doing isn’t always the best thing to shift out state of being…
Cheers & happy days
KL