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Posts by Meredith_

Meredith is a writer who loves to explore topics such as mindfulness, peace, and happiness. In her free time, she enjoys practicing yoga, spending time in nature, and volunteering with animals.

How I Broke Free from Depression When I Felt Suicidal

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ā€œIā€™m stronger because of the hard times, wiser because of my mistakes, and happier because I have known sadness.ā€ ~Unknown

I was diagnosed with clinical depression and prescribed anti-depressants when I was twenty-one years old. I refer to this point in my life as the ā€œDark Ages.ā€

Leading up to grad school, Iā€™d suddenly become afflicted with incomprehensible despair.

At seventeen, for the first time (at least for the first time I could remember), I considered suicide. I felt as if life shouldā€™ve been more than what it was. I had a deep sense that I was supposed to …

How My Anger Led Me to Forgiveness and Peace

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ā€œGenuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.ā€ ~Alice Duer Miller

As an adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse at the hands of a relative, I had become accustomed to keeping secrets. Silence, I was taught, was a good thing. It protected people that I loved.

So for over a decade, I carried the dark and overbearing weight of my past in secrecy and in silence, believing I was the only one in the world whoā€™d ever experienced such abuseā€”until I learned from a college workshop that one in four women and one in five men fall …