I just can’t believe you’re not a qualified therapist and you’re in your early 30’s. Your awareness is something else.

You may not be a licensed therapist, but you should be because you have an amazing skill set. Thank you for all your very thoughtful posts.

@MattSloanVMMP

11 ай бұрын

It’s pretty hard to beat helping thousands of people at once

@XIX_777

11 ай бұрын

Amazing, right!!

@denny3161

11 ай бұрын

She should look in to doing an equivalency test regarding psychology. Her communication skills are off the chart.

@mon0t0n

10 ай бұрын

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@diverstalent

10 ай бұрын

Yes, and to Heidi as well: the way Heidi encompasses a message is complete, compassionate, enabling me to hear, process. Sousan

Your content is much broader, detailed and more useful than the content of many licenced therapists’. Good job, you deserve more audience

@jafrasar1

6 ай бұрын

Hell yeah!

Thinking about depression as a symptom has been so helpful in understanding my trauma as a wholistic full body experience - been definitely feeling depressed because of realizing more about my childhood trauma recently 😔

I’m in depressive episode right now and felt hopeless. Now, I feel this time is a gift and I will be better after doing what was discussed. Thank you so much!

@DestinysBullshit

Ай бұрын

Please listen to her video. Good luck. I'm not feeling well also

"Depression is like a woman in black. If she turns up, don’t shoo her away. Invite her in, offer her a seat, treat her like a guest and listen to what she wants to say"

You are my angel and thanks to listening to this on a walk I forced myself on it finally allowed me to realise they is a way out the depression I’m in and must have looked crazy walking with tears streaming Down my face and not because I was sad I was crying because I felt hopeful and thanks so much it’s made me feel like they is a way out of this 🙏

This video describes alchemy from resisting low states to accepting the invitation to heal. You come across as one who has deeply observed and done the hard work of vulnerable introspection and acceptance. You articulate the process of gaining real life skills rather than the wishy washy instant toxic positivity that just dismisses and suppresses our human need to be and know our shadows. Thank you. I had got back to a point of planning suicide but dragged my mind back with a lifeline I believe that was the product of developing self compassion. Today was the first day I told myself I would start the process back to radical healing and this video gave me direction when I couldn't trust my own judgement.

6 ай бұрын

You are sooo right in that part about her not being yet another toxic positivity channel. That is exactly what I expected to see when I've seen her thumbnails and aesthetic she was going for, but thank God I gave her a shot. She's a gift that keeps on giving. I pick one of her videos to watch every evening, sometimes even take notes

This may be a little weird of me but, i cant help but notice that you never say umm and uuh. Every single word counts. So awesome and refreshing. Infinite Love and Gratitude beloved Heidi.🙏✌️❤️🌞🤗🐶

@dbuck1964

2 ай бұрын

I noticed that, too, probably because both my parents were writers, and they didn’t cut me any slack in the communication department.

@n3rd66

16 күн бұрын

A sign of superior forethought. Heidi is the most intelligent person I've encountered.

@aurelienyonrac

15 күн бұрын

Editor cut. You will notice there are 100s of cuts in a video.

Girl, I love how you can put thought processes to words. For me, hiking with a friend goes a long way in refreshment, but I'm picky about my hiking partners

Took me about two hours of journalling to get pass this icky emotional and strangely physical feeling in my chest, it was worth every second even though it cut into my creative practice time. My triggers are stress, and perceived unfair ideologies that other people have, can be politics religion or social. Mostly it's not getting things done and not having a career to speak of even though I am in my late forties. I don't want to beat myself up for not being up to making money in my life, I want to heal, and do the best I can with the energy I get when stress and guilt is released. I'm trying a new system of a "time spent on" to do list, rather than a completed daily to do list. So journalling and trying new things is getting me there today.

@comoane

2 ай бұрын

Shame is a killer…

The moment a high anxiety episode begins I start journaling and I start crying . That always helps me. What doesn't work is chronic googling and social media scrolling. (Oh and hugging stuffed animals while I cry helps even more. After journaling and crying, a bath helps to calm me down, talking with my best friend helps to calm me down, painting helps, going on a walk in nature helps, and not trying to "make it go away" helps but accepting it as a "lesson" in my life. Each day I repeat that process and I focus on "turning off my brain" at night so i can sleep 8 hours. I also focus on eating only my favorite foods (because I lose my appetite and get nauseous so this is the only thing I can usually stomach). But eating enough and sleeping enough helps me a LOT. Trying to learn from it helps me to reduce these episodes or learn to move through them with more ease. Listening or reading therapeutic information online helps but only if it isn't trying to "diagnose" or "give specific advise" about how to approach a very specific interpersonal situation. Videos like this that are general tool type videos help. Allowing the intrusive thoughts to win and not trying to stamp them out helps. Taking time alone helps.

LOVE THIS SO MUCH. As a trainee clinical psychologist who was trained in CBT but is more inclined to existential and humanistic approaches, this makes SO SO much sense to me, personally and professionally. Thank you. I know I'll be watching this again and again. And please drop a recommeded reading list. I know I'll be reading Lost Connections 👍 P.S NOT saying cbt doesn't work. It works for many many people with depression and anxiety.

I have been in the worst depression of my life which has led me into a startling discovery. Due to some of the different and extreme things I have been experiencing this time around, I discovered that I am what would be considered a high masking late diagnosed female with ASD/ADHD. I came to this conclusion after a video completely unrelated to my algorithm showed up in my feed and caught my attention. In that video they talked about autistic burnout and I realized that so many of the new extreme things I was experiencing in this “depression “ were actually classic autistic burnout signs (which led to a lot more research). I am a 46 year old female who completely flew under the radar all my life because neurodivergence presents differently in girls than in boys as girls who do not have obvious learning disabilities pick up on how to modify their behaviour very quickly (masking).Things that happened in this depression to the extreme had to in order for me to realize there was more going on than meets the eye. For one thing, I have what appears on the surface to be a wonderful life yet my thoughts became desperate and said things like…I don’t want to be here anymore, I don’t want to do this anymore, everything is too hard. Thoughts like that are not me - are not an option or a go to ever. I felt like and feel like an adult going backwards into a child - like regression in skills and abilities. Chronic fatigue and exhaustion without the ability to regenerate. Sensitivity to everything especially noise, light and other people. Memory and communicating issues. Not being able to articulate in the way I could previously. Going from a woman who conquered obstacles, fears and had a tremendous ability to push through into a woman who can barely look after herself. We are very complex beings and I am seeing more and more the effects of living in a world that demands conformity, obedience and strict adherence to systems. Neurodivergent brains cannot cope in such environments. Thank you for your absolute excellence in your ability to communicate and for sharing your experiences. Sending you lots of love, appreciation and gratitude❤

@divergentmind2023

Жыл бұрын

i see you same with me at 45 finally meeting me i hope you find ways to cope and be kind to yourself 🫶🏼

@Anadorado88

11 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing this. I’m a 31 year old late diagnosed asd/adhd female as well. Sending 💕

@ktcooki276

9 ай бұрын

You can't self diagnose such serious lifetime conditions

@lynncliatt4221

7 ай бұрын

Glad I read this comment! I have a 31year old son with autism. We are together 24/7. I have this reoccurring feeling that he is my reflection and I am really just like him 💁🏻‍♀️

@skyyy1977

5 ай бұрын

Same here. 46 like you and very high functioning but now very burnt out. It takes a toll. I hope you have the best kind of help for your bright mind and myriad skills that need nurturing. I’m resting now mostly, grieving and doing very little but recover. Hope there’s more to life after this for us.

Oh wow!!! I’m the saying way. There are some certain times during the day that make me so depressed. Like from 1pm till 5pm. And Saturday snd Sundays are the worst

@AthenaIsabella

Жыл бұрын

Same!!

@apollinariya

2 ай бұрын

same. why though?

Brava! I watched the entire video - in the afternoon - laying in bed in a full depressive episode. I took notes. It all makes complete sense and gives a proactive strategy to live with and get thru depression. Thank you for your perspective. It is spot on. And in this moment has really helped me.

If you always feel tired in the afternoon, try keeping a journal of what you eat for lunch and your perceived fatigue/brain fog 2 hours later. I used to be mystified by my falling asleep in the afternoon no matter how much sleep I got the night before. It turned out carbs were my problem. If cutting carbs doesn't work, try cutting other foods that people often have sensitivities to.

I really love this Heidi, I love how realistic you are in describing depression and its solution.

Thank you so much for this, Heidi. I usually don’t comment, but I’m truly grateful for you and your content and felt motivated to share a bit :) I recently tapered completely off of Lexapro after taking it for ~2 years, and I am experiencing my first depressive episode without medication. Until I watched this video, I had a lot of fear about my brain being sick or broken and requiring fixing, as is often pushed by the medical model of mental health. It really discouraged me that I couldn’t find many resources to truly understand what’s going on. Now, I feel more compassion towards myself and understanding that the depression really is here for a reason. That switch alone is truly powerful!

It’s not appropriate and probably not healthy and all that, but I have fallen in love with Heidi. Her inner and outer beauty seem so aligned, her kindness and authenticity are so touching, she’s a beacon of hope in a cruel world ❤

I'm an enfp myself and never listen when people tell me they like me or that i have a positive energy surrounding me. But whenever i talk/listen to some other enfps or esfps i can feel the pureness and authentic interest in helping me and others. They just have something uplifting about them and their honesty helps me when i'm feeling depressed. I hope sometimes i can be just as helpful for others despite my depression which is getting out of control lately.

10:34 so much that. We all hear the (imo toxic) advice of "In a funk? Just name 10-20 things you're grateful for, every day!" Not saying it doesn't work for some people sometimes... but still is invalidating to real voids and griefs that definitely may be central in our lives (at least right now) and deserve to be processed and all that. (But of course the natural tendency is to push them away, tell yourself "this issue isn't that bad/ isn't worth holding onto, etc". If it keeps coming up, it is legitimate and worthy of attention

This is such an important and relevant topic to me that I couldn't even finish this video in one sitting. I could cry at last after watching this. I already feel genuine hope coming into my body. Thank you so much. This is my light at the end of the tunnel. I can finally atleast see it. Thanks a ton.

Johann Hari! Love that book - lost connections was phenomenal. The whole diatribe about drugs, antidepressant placebo, social reconnections, brain chemistry, environmental disconnection, and homecoming likeness; is also a personal tale for me

@heidipriebe1

Жыл бұрын

It is truly one of the sanest books I have ever read about mental health in my life (and I read a LOT of books about mental health). His book 'Stolen Focus' is equally incredible if you haven't already read it!

sat. Really hit home for me. I have been struggling a long time with my divorce. I need to stop resisting and work on getting myself back together. I am going for a walk today. Small steps.

Summary: -Intro -Mental health -Lost connections - Johann Hari - Book about depression -The man with Center ---------Part 1----------------- -Step 1 Acknowledge -Mental illness vs physical illnes -Step 2 Observation - 2.1: When, where, are you the most depressed/ depressed. 2.2 : Recurring thought patterns? Create which body states? -Step 3 Expectations -Body state - which shape does your depression have? Ex: if you hold it in your hand -Contain your experience - what we resist, persists. -Step 4? - Fasting -Step 5 - Out of alignment -What is true ---------Part 2---------------- -Step 1 - The key -Step 2 - Detachment - When your doing something right/ somethings going your way, stop and analyze what took you there. What did you do that led you there? -Step 3 - Pick one thing -Step 4 - Reintegrate/ Discard? 51.10 - What matters, what do i want? -Step 5 - Re-emerge - 55.30 -

I can't believe you're not a therapist!😮 watching your videos, I was fully convinced that you were one and I assumed one who spent years working with many clients who struggle with ctpsd. I made all these assumptions because of the depth and intelligence of your insights. I hope you know how gifted you are! This work you're doing is your greatest gift to life and to the world......that you studied and masterd the knowledge to aliveate not just your own suffering but to help others behind you. How awesome is that?!?!?! I really admire you. Thank you for sharing your insights and experiences. May God gift you with the attainment of your highest desires. 🙌 wow!

Thank you fort his deep conversation on depression. I need this type of advice while I gather the courage to seek counseling.

You are absolutely brilliant! I love that you share tools and personal insights. Thank you!

Thank you for taking the time to help us get better.

Thank you so much for this video, and all of your Chanel 🙏🏽 i can just say that i found you in the exact right time in my life ❤️

1. Thanks for your videos, the effort you put in it, I know how much work it takes. 2. People who really are this aware of what's happening inside them and so direct about it is almost non-existent, it's a relief to finally hear someone go in depth. No wonder you're successful, the combination of these skills is godsent.

Thank you Heidi. Your videos have helped me immensely.

Genuine heartfelt thank you for taking the time to create and share these videos. They are giving me a different perspective which is giving me hope.🌸

This was probably the most helpful information that anyone, including my “trained therapist”, has ever imparted to me regarding what to do about my depression. ALL OF IT resonated with me! Thank you for being so brave and so generous to share your experiences. 💕

Thank you! Your videos have helped me sooo much. I relate to everything you say. I love that you reach out and share your journey to help others ❤❤❤

I found this video to be brilliantly articulated and incredibly helpful. Thanks.

I've been in 12 step program and have been clean and sober for over 28 years. In the program we have a 90 meetings in 90 days recommendation. Since covid I've developed a bad habit of sleeping for about 12 or more hours a day. Im an Uber driver so I make my own hours. I have been driving the minimum hours a day for a couple of years now and I'm sick and tired of sleeping all the time. After listening to ur video I realize i'm depressed and am going to do 90 meetings in 90 days to combat this depression. Since covid I've been isolating and not going out much. Im certain after the 90 days are over my depression will be over, too! Thanks Heidi. Oh yeah, I'll probably sign up for the ENFP Bootcamp, since i'll have time because i'll be waking up a lot earlier, hopefully.

@keshakellogg5995

9 ай бұрын

I'm curious to hear how you are now 8 months later, John! Did you act on your desire to do 90 meetings in 90 days and/or do her ENFP Bootcamp? (I sense that it might be good for me, too...)

I’m glad I found you, the way you explain everything, resonates with what i’m going through, I can tell that you overcome this huge challenge, I’m proud of you and this gives me hope that after putting the work and effort, I will heal too.

Your videos saved my life. Thank you Heidi 🖤

Thanks Heidi for your videos. They are easy to understand and filled with such helpful advice. Really appreciate you!

Heidi I appreciate your videos so much, thank you for all that you do.

Thank you for the book recommendation. What a good teacher you are!

Your self love inspires me. I am in tears. Thanks Heidi.

I cannot begin to explain just how much your videos have helped me gain so much insight into my life! THANK YOU!

Been going through it! Taking notes! Thanks Heidi ❤

Wow! You have a truly amazing gift of getting to the heart of the matter and explaining it better than anyone I've ever heard. When I know I have a particularly difficult and emotional bit to get through and I feel myself avoiding it, I imagine jumping into a pool and immersing myself in the water (emotions) and swimming through it. Knowing there is no way around and I have to go through it, but I'll reach the other side is helpful. Maybe the fact I taught myself to swim in a pool helps...something about knowing I won't drown if I just stay in and keep moving, albeit ungraceful. I can still feel my toes springing off the bottom of the pool as I bobbed across the pool coming up for air as needed. I made it across the deep end every time.

@lynncliatt4221

7 ай бұрын

Love this!!! ❤I imagine swimming in water for meditation. Never thought to use it like this 😅Thanks

Thanks Heidi, sincerely appreciated

So grateful to have found you!

This absolute gold!!! (Like all your videos) Thank you so much for creating this.

Your voice and thoughts are so soothing and insightful. This video popped up at just the right time.

Heidi, this is hands down the most helpful resource I've found for finally working through the depression and internal struggles I've had for two solid years. Thank you so much for this and all the wonderful videos you create!

I keep coming back to listening to this! Sending thanks from Switzerland ♥️

What a smart and useful video. Thanks for sharing. Couple of thoughts: To me you are one of the few AMAZING therapists in youtube, so if you do not have your licence, then go for it!!!!!!, we need you!. Then, after listening to you I think I have been depressed in my life, but I am thankful because I instinctively have applied some of the actions you recommend to get over it. To spend time with very close friends, and to engage in meaningful hobbies is just super effective. I consider myself lucky so far. I wish the best for everyone, and please Heidi, keep enlightening us. Thanks a bunch 🎉

Thank you Heidi. Your videos are healing me. You are the best therapy resource on the Internet.

Thank u so much Heidi that was brilliant ❤️🙏

This video is so so so gold 🙌🏽 I’d like to give you a hug and really thank you so much for all of this 🌺

This is a really authentic and helpful information. Thanks for sharing it, Heidi.

And I can't tell you how grateful that I stumbled upon your channel today. I'm completely taken aback by the depth in which you've broken down the ENFP. Your insight is bone-chillingly accurate on every account. This is the 32nd video I've watched GLUED to your channel today. You also correctly diagnosed my anxiety attachment, of which I had never heard before. I honestly believe that you're going to change my life in a very profound way. Thank you for existing!!!

You ate so good at what you do here. Very grateful for your videos! 🐜

I deeply appreciate you and your work. Coming up through a deep depression myself and this is so helpful. I’ve heard from others that we can think of our body as hardware and our emotion/thoughts as software and they both need a reboot. Knowing the biological factors of nutrition, activity, sunshine, hydration and breath work can reboot the body and allow the software reset makes sense. I also love that it’s just one thing to start with because it can be so overwhelming. I started with sleep hygiene since I can’t motivate to do anything without proper sleep. Now to move to something intrinsically valuable. Your content is great - taking so many notes. And I see you. Good luck as you work your way through the dark moments. I’m cheering you from the interwebs :)

Thank you so much for sharing all your knowledge and experiences so coherently. You've made me feel truly understood for the first time in my life (I'm 45). Thank you for giving me hope and the knowledge to start working on healing. I've learned more from you than from my therapist or any other mental health videos I've come across. You are simply amazing and I greatly appreciate you!! Thank you for all the book recommendations too!! ♡♡♡

Amazingly helpful! I’m learning so much from you! Very grateful ❤

I feel so grateful to have come across this message! This is only the beginning of shifting my mindset around the depression I have been experiencing. I have looked to spiritual support a lot from the Christian church. The message is to ward off demonic entities such as depression. This has been very confusing in my mind and I have creates a sort of “toxic positivity” mindset trying to affirm it away. I am excited to begin implementing some of these practices to support my body and mind thru these deeper emotions with an empowered mindset, and with a coaching and supportive approach rather than what I have been currently doing. Thank you for sharing your message w us, I feel privileged to come across your videos.

I have always been super active when anxiety or depression arise. I really appreciate this video giving me the reinforcement to sit with my feelings and see what they are trying to tell me instead of disconnecting from them and ultimately myself.🙏🏽💜✨🧘🏽‍♀️

Thanks, Heidi: Neurotransmitters are produced in the gut. Lack appears due to microbiomal aging. I'm an ENFP and clinician working on the problem. Help is just around the corner.

Thank you 🙏🏻This is one of the best videos I ever watched 💞🤗

I love your videos, they are so helpful to me. Thank you so much!!!

I'm only like 20 minutes in, but I love this so much. I struggle with depression and this is naming a number of things that have been helpful for me in the past. Thank you for sharing these really important reflections!

We experience the most self-resistance when the reality differs from what we want it to be. Your emphasis that *the body knows* is striking.❤ Having the power to change to adapt to align with our unmet needs is so often a privilege but when it’s possible it’s the answer. Making the standard for a good day and a successful day tied to something that we decide and that we have power to accomplish and that is intrinsically meaningful to us is essential. Thank you for relaying this so clearly. Your mention of chronic propaganda via commercial advertising is deeply important . I stopped watching media advertising 30 years ago. It was excellent for mental health and reduction in fake wants.

Thank you for this and to make it publicly available

Your channel is a miracle!

Your personal experience makes you an expert. Thank you.❤

So much of what you say in this video, and on your channel, is aligned with Chassidic wisdom.

Heidi, you are my favorite KZreadr.

This is amazing 🌼 Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom 💜

Thank you Heidi for sharing, you eyes are beautiful and your internal vision also.

I’m always surprised whenever you state that you’re not a licensed therapist. Your demeanor and intentionality is so therapist like. I hope that when I’m in the healthcare field I’ll be able to flow similarly to you! Thank you so much for all of your videos and all that you do/study 😊🙏🏾

I frequently watch your videos out of order.. At just before 1 hour, it struck me that everything you had said was the culmination of total recognition that you found relief to finally recognize true solution- it was going away from the conditioning , the smoke etc. Watching your videos, I have started to discover that when in morning and my acute creativity mode is awake( if I've had a prior good sleep) when too much sensitivity is added via body movements that feel triggering are those of a fully opening the chi class, its like they interrupt my own original thought. but later in the day it is better to do this kind of thing with people in a workout class. Tutledge on depression was wholly appreciated; I can't say I've learned any more other places and its a gift I love . Big joy, Heidii.

Love your videos so much & value your insights, and this one really resonates with me. I appreciate you sharing your experience, and what helps you- it’s so helpful. just wanted to note that there is some disordered eating/exercise language in here. At some points it was all I can focus on, I know that’s my issue (having an ED history) but equating daily success with eating “well” and exercising every day could be misconstrued

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!! This is so helpful!!!!

Thank you! This was gold

Love listening to you. It really helps me so much. Thank you

I cant thank you enough for this video. You are incredible👏🏻👏🏻💯💯

I have been binge watching your videos for a week now multiple times, and I’m shocked that you are not a psychotherapist because I have never heard anyone say things and explain things to me that are so helpful ever in my life so I don’t know what they’re teaching in school but please don’t go to school because this is gold!

Would love a video on self containment of emotions. So impressed by your material and articulation of it. Thank you Thank you!!

God bless you for these videos, in particular this one. Very helpful

You are doing more good sharing your experience and knowledge publicly than anyone can just doing credentialed private practice.

Rewatching for the fourth time taking notes this time haha. You mentioned self containment and making a video... I would love that! There seems to be this prevailing view from the establishment towards people like me, that we are cut off from our emotions, and as I do, if you intellectualise, they say, you as do it as a defence. I've always known myself to be deeply connected to my emotions, so this is confusing and invalidating. However I'm starting to find the words for my actual experience now, that being, my struggle is self containment and always has been. My feelings are so deep as vast they are experienced a dangerous. (ENFP ADHD ASD CPSTD AWESOME) Please do a video for us fellow trauma nerds! 🙏

You have the mind of a scientist. Love your videos ❤

Listening to your at 4am 🕓. Thank you ❤

This video and many of your videos are some of the most important videos on the planet.

Thanks heidi , you are great, so intelligent and generous

Thank you so much for this vdo ❤ so many useful and practical tips sending love to you!

I think what is difficult for me is I'm very self-aware and have spent a lot of years watching videos like this. I do believe that I have grown in a lot of ways and have made huge leaps in my own mental health journey but being autistic and ADHD it is very hard to make long-term changes that last. I have done a lot of inner child healing and internal work (obviously still on the journey), but understanding that my environments can really wear me down mentally and physically due to overstimulation. Ive spent most of my life unable to finish anything, no matter how hard I try. I've had countless jobs but unable to hold any long term because I end up in burnout because of the expectations of working jobs that wear me out to afford to stay alive, I can't afford disability and truthfully wouldn't want to be on disability. I guess a lot of my depression comes from the fact I struggle with work and knowing that the cost of living is only going up and everything is so expensive now.. I worry that I may never make it out of poverty and will struggle my whole life. I feel like I've hit a wall in my mental health journey, like this is my final stop, I will sit there watching everyone around me continue on the train moving forward. I've never been able to afford therapy so I've spent my whole life watching videos like these. I will say even though you aren't a licensed therapist, you are by far the most helpful person I've seen online. being autistic I struggle with understanding a lot of ways people explain things, I take things very literal and a lot of people say things they don't mean.

Thank you for all that you're doing. I have an idea for a video. I struggle with finding purpose and meaning in life. I observed that this problem is very common, especially among people in their mid twenties. It's often accompanied by depression and ending up not doing anything with your life. I think it's too rarely talked about.

Thank you, I feel way better after watching it

thank you for your work it has helped me so much

I haven’t watched the video yet. But I will. Cold showers at the end of a hot shower have been helpful for me. Also addressing the underlying issue if I can find it. I think mine has to do with suppression of anger. So trying to find what I’m actually angry about and address it or get out of the situation has been helpful. Daily yoga is helping to move stuck emotions out of my body and place a roadmap to a peaceful feeling in my mind. Also telling people I don’t have the energy reserves to do things they might ask of me if I feel depleted. And watering plants gives me a little lift. And watching birds at a birdfeeder. Drinking tea and a hot bath. And giving the depression time to do its thing. Like the weather, knowing that it will clear is helpful to keep in mind.

Much appreciated & excellent content! 🎉