Gentle activities to help move through depression

About This Tool

This is a gentle tool to use daily when experiencing feelings of depression. 

Depression can make us feel hollowed out and empty of any motivation.  When people suggest things like 'Just go out with your friends, you'll feel better' OR 'Just go for a bike ride, you'll feel better" it can feel as if they're asking you to climb a mountain.  This tool provides you with baby steps.  That help.

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Why It Works

There is a tremendous amount of literature out there that supports the suggestions in this tool.

Louv, Richard. The Nature Principle : Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder. Chapel Hill, N.C. :Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2011.

 

Kabat-Zinn, Jon. Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life. New York: Hyperion, 1994. Print.

Ilardi, S. S. (2009). The depression cure: The 6-step program to beat depression without drugs. Da Capo Press.

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