Fix your sleeping pattern and get into a routine; wake up in the morning and fall asleep at night. It makes a difference.
The state of your body affects your state of mind. When people fall into depressed moods their shoulders hunch from the drop in energy. If you don’t fix this, it’s going to be hard to come out of it, as it will create a feedback loop.
So do weights to pull back, straighten and strengthen your shoulders. Start doing plank core exercises every night or second night (10 in a row, hold for 10 seconds each) and find a type of cardio you enjoy. It took me a while to find out jump rope works for me, and now I actually look forward to my sessions.
Straightening out your back/ pulling back your shoulders and strengthening your abdomen is also going to bring down your cortisol levels, make projecting your voice so much easier and naturally boost your confidence levels.
Get a job, any job. Having a job is going to make your emotional state so much less reactive; your brain knows whether or not you can support yourself and afford to stay alive, so having a job is very important.
Give love to the people around you whenever you can. Be kind, make jokes; connect with people.
Depression is often linked to not discharging emotions, particularly anger. So whenever something bothers you, voice it. For people who are less naturally assertive, this can be difficult, but over time it’ll get easier and you’ll get calmer in your delivery. And then when something makes you genuinely angry, you’ll be able to voice it constructively and get it out of your system.
Even if you have a legitimately bad day, don’t give in to the whole Netflix-as-self-care trend. Unless you seriously can’t move, make an effort to do something every single day; even if that’s just going for a walk. Try to make it a habit, so it’s easier to fall back on when things get really tough.
The herbal supplement Ginkgo is amazing at clearing brain fog up. I avoided taking it for years and completely regret it. It’s like a very mild, natural and healthy version of Aderal- for some, it works as a ‘intelligence booster’. And always order it online, because the department store prices are significantly more expensive.
Look into rescue remedy/ Bach’s Flowers Remedies. For some people, it’s the only way they can get out of the house. It’s incredible at de-escalating anxiety, and there is a flower remedy solution for a huge range of mental health ailments.
You might have relationship stuff you haven’t resolved/moved on from. Maybe you haven’t figured out who was at fault, or the ways in which the involved parties messed up. If that is the case, you need to either talk it out or write about it until you clear everything up and can move on from it. A psychologist is great for this, but you could also accomplish it through journaling.
If you’re feeling really down because you’re stressed/overwhelmed, then take a moment to write down everything that is worrying you. After you’ve identified each thing that has accumulated into this stress exhaustion, write down the solution for each and every problem and a schedule for when you’ll tackle them. You’ll feel a lot more in control.
Organise your room so that it looks nice and everything is easy to navigate/access. If you’re someone who experiences frequent dips in mood, you need a straightforward wardrobe. So get a clothes rack or dedicate part of your wardrobe to ‘everyday essentials’ and set up a laundry hamper nearby. People tend to cycle through the same clothes and it’ll also help you find any gaps in your wardrobe.
Kiss me until I forget how terrified I am of everything wrong with my life.
—Beau Taplin
3.
How she felt when he kissed her—like a tub of roses swimming in honey, cologne, nutmeg and blackberries.
—Samuel Sullivan Cox
4.
He took her into his arms again, using all his strength to be gentle, and let his lips touch hers so lightly he could hardly feel it.
—Morgan Llywelyn
5.
His kisses tapped into deep mines of memory, and the years that had separated us fell away as if they were nothing.
—Lisa Kleypas
6.
A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.
—Ingrid Bergman
7.
And we were kissing like drowning people breathe—like suddenly we’d discovered something that has never been so sweet before that moment.
—Morgan Matson
8.
The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.
—Guy de Maupassant
9.
I kiss her. I kiss her and kiss her. I try not to bite her lip. She tastes like vodka honey.
—Lidia Yuknavitch
10.
We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
—Eduardo Galeano
11.
It was the kiss of a man who had waited years for the moment, and feared that it would never come again.
—Jana Oliver
12.
The first kiss can be as terrifying as the last.
—Daina Chaviano
13.
It was a kiss to level mountains and shake stars from the sky. It was a kiss to make angels faint and demons weep…a passionate, demanding, soul-searing kiss that nearly knocked the earth off its axis.
—Lisa Kleypas
14.
You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.
—Margaret Mitchell
15.
If you kiss on the first date and it’s not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes it’s better to hold out and not kiss for a long time. I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else.
—Jennifer Lopez
16.
My first kiss. A new kind of kiss, like the new kind of music still playing, softly, in the distance—wild and arrhythmic, desperate. Passionate.
—Lauren Oliver
17.
Now a soft kiss—aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
—John Keats
18.
Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
—Marilyn Monroe
19.
It was the best first kiss in the history of first kisses. It was as sweet as sugar. And it was warm, as warm as pie. The whole world opened up and I fell inside. I don’t know where I was, but I didn’t care. I didn’t care because the only person who mattered was there with me.
—Sarah Addison Allen
20.
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss and all was said.
—Victor Hugo
21.
A first kiss is the demarcation line: the same information that a moment ago felt private, all of a sudden seems unfair to withhold. And with that exchange came more.
—Francesca Marciano
22.
Then she was kissing him as she had never kissed him before…and it was blissful oblivion, better than firewhisky; she was the only real thing in the world.
—J. K. Rowling
23.
I’m going to kiss you now, and I don’t know if I’ll ever stop.
—Jamie McGuire
24.
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
—Billie Holiday
25.
He kisses like he’s dying of thirst, and I’m water.
—Jennifer L. Armentrout
26.
A kiss is a rosy dot over the ‘i’ of loving.
—Cyrano de Bergerac
27.
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
—Tom Waits
28.
The kiss is neither returned nor exchanged, because it’s free.
—Charles de Leusse
29.
The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
30.
My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.
—Jonathan Swift
31.
Kissing you is terrifying, breathing your same air makes my knees weak, when I’m around you it’s a tie between wanting to chase you down—or just kiss you until you can’t breathe.
—Rachel Van Dyken
32.
Our only kiss was like an accident—a beautiful gasoline rainbow.
—Alice Sebold
33.
He tangles his hand in my hair, and the other cups my jaw. Although I have this all planned, his lips feel shockingly sweet, swollen and soft, and more like home every time.
—Alex Rosa
34.
A kiss on the beach when there is a full moon is the closest thing to heaven.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
35.
I didn’t want to kiss you goodbye—that was the trouble—I wanted to kiss you good night—and there’s a lot of difference.
—Ernest Hemingway
36.
His mouth seizes mine. Consuming me. Devouring me. My body moves against his. Harder. Faster. Take me. Take all of me…
—Alexia Russell
37.
I prefer a kiss that is so much more than just a tongue in your mouth.
—Katherine Heigl
38.
The truth is, I always want to kiss you.
—Alex Rosa
39.
I was going to kiss him, and I was going to regret it. But at that moment, I couldn’t bring myself to care.
—Michelle Hodkin
40.
Your love is not really love until you waste it, a kiss is never a kiss until you taste it…
—Munia Khan
41.
The lover steals a kiss. He incurs life imprisonment.
—Charles de Leusse
42.
Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.
—Jeff Buckley
43.
It’s the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.
—Tahereh Mafi
44.
Kissing—and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing – is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.
—Drew Barrymore
45.
Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt an unknown and timid pressure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor.
—James Joyce
46.
And somehow, against all reason, we were kissing. I closed my eyes, and the world around me faded.
—Richelle Mead
47.
Boys always like to see girls kiss. I don’t get it; girls don’t want to see boys kiss.
—Dominique Swain
48.
Make me immortal with a kiss.
—Christopher Marlowe
49.
Unfortunately, I like to feel a little stubble when I kiss. Women are too soft.
—Malin Akerman
50.
One day you will kiss a man you can’t breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.
An interesting thing about VeggieTales is that the Bible stories it retells are mostly restricted to the Old Testament, because the creator made a promise to his mother that he would never depict Jesus as a vegetable
"This year I learned that pain is inevitable. Loved ones will be lost whether it be death or simply growing apart.
People will disappoint you and no matter how much you may love them, sometimes you need to walk away for yourself.
It’s commendable to plan for the future and to visualize the things you want in life. Most likely none of it will happen and life will take you on a journey you never planned for.
The number one lesson I have learned this year though is,
No matter how unbearable the pain may be, love conquers everything and it can be found in the most unexpected places. We just have to be willing to invite it in and give it back. To cherish those who continue to love us even when we feel we don’t deserve it. That kind of love is hard to find and it will leave if it is not nourished, especially the love we need for ourselves."
