Worry Plate
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by Lisa Hughes
3y ago
Lisa Hughes Photo There is absolutely a direct correlation to how I feel mentally and what foods I put in my body. Last January I started a "healthy Living" program. I learned a lot! One of the MANY changes in my habits was cutting sugar and carbs out of my diet. I don't even know how I found the will power to do such a thing since choc chip cookies are my absolute favorite food, but through the program it kind of tricked me into making healthy choices. I felt physically really good and strong. Then Thanksgiving happened - YIKES! The official start of the holiday season. The official start of ..read more
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Waving Through A Window
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by Lisa Hughes
3y ago
  Last weekend, my mom took my sister, my best friend and I, to the Broadway show, Dear Evan Hansen. The show, the music and the story has been sticking with me. Like... I can't stop listening to the music. Like... got up early Thanksgiving Day to watch a performance of it at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on TV. Like... googling youTube videos of the cast performances on late night TV. Like asking everyone I come in contact with if they know the show so we can connect on how amazing it was/is. My take away from the show is that everybody deserves to be seen, and deserves to be hear ..read more
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Those damn monkey bars!
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by Lisa Hughes
3y ago
I cry a lot. I cry at parades. I cry when I visit an old folks home. I cry when I see any kind of human compassion or kindness.  Especially when it is directed toward me or my husband or my kids. I cry when I am frustrated. I cry when I am scared. I cry when I am happy. I cry when I hear beautiful music. I cry when I visit aquariums.   However, this past weekend when my daughter broke her arm and she was in a lot of pain, I didn't cry.  A few hours later when she was told she needed to spend the night in the hospital and have surgery early the next morning...i didn't cry. When ..read more
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I Am
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by Lisa Hughes
3y ago
The yoga studio where I work is starting a social media series on all of us instructors. When my friend who was filming said I can talk about anything I feel like sharing..."You could talk about depression maybe..." because she knows I am so open about it. Sometimes I feel like that is all i talk about - definitely a lot of energy is put in that hat. I decided to talk about handstands instead. Driving to work yesterday morning I was thinking about who I would have been if depression never entered my life. Would I be a yoga teacher? Would I even do yoga at all? Would I be able to see other peo ..read more
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Radio Interview
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by Lisa Hughes
3y ago
The absolute best part about being interviewed on the radio...I didn't have to do my hair ..read more
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Embrace Your Crazy
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by Lisa Hughes
3y ago
As open as I have been about my struggle with depression, I find there are still things I kind of hide on a daily basis. Its not really hiding, it more just sucking it up so one has to be bothered by what I am dealing with. A couple months ago my anti depressant stopped working. It just stopped. Out of nowhere, all of those old quiet symptoms of a dark depressive episode started to sneak its way in. This time I was prepared though. I see a doctor regularly and I am very open and clear with my husband when things are getting a little out of control. My doctor was fairly certain my meds just st ..read more
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Project Semicolon
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by Lisa Hughes
3y ago
The girl who created the semicolon campaign died today. Her name is Amy Bleuel and she was 31 years old.  She called her Mental Health Awareness campaign, Project Semicolon.  An author can use a semicolon to create a pause in a sentence....where a sentence could end... but the writer chooses to keep the sentence going. Her campaign has been followed by many who struggle with depression. It can symbolize someone who could end their life, but choose to go on.   I have friends who have a semicolon tattoo. I believe in her campaign and symbol. When I was starting to figure out wha ..read more
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Actively Alive
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by Lisa Hughes
3y ago
This morning I was on our local Rochester morning TV show called,"Good Day Rochester".(ABC/FOX). I was nervous - couldn't feel my fingers nervous and couldn't eat breakfast nervous and couldn't sleep the night before nervous. As we walked into the news station in Henrietta I said tomy husband, "It sure seems like I am getting myself into situations I don't want to be in lately, don't you think?" Although I appreciated the opportunity to be there, my brain goes right back to the space of, not good enough, i'm boring, and I certainly don't have a face/body for TV. My husband Mark said ,"You are ..read more
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Embarrassing Bravery
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by Lisa Hughes
3y ago
I've been quiet here and everywhere lately...I haven't been feeling great, so I sit back. It hasn't been a bad couple of months, but definitely a bit of a struggle to be happy each day. I always talk about how it is important to BE OPEN and SHARE...but you know what - when you are struggling - it ain't easy my friend. I haven't been feeling great, and I have come to realize that even someone like me, who is open, who now because of this website, all my friends and family know whats going on with my experience with depression...it's still incredibly hard to discuss and even admit to myself wh ..read more
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Fake Eyelashes
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by Lisa Hughes
3y ago
I had my first speaking engagement Friday night, May 20, 2016. I was really nervous about it...i even had a panic attack before hand. I have never had a panic attack before...i have many other issues;)....but panic attacks aren't one of them. Ill set the scene...I actually think it is hysterical now...if you can't laugh at yourself...this life wouldn't be very much fun. I am sitting at Scott Miller Salon and Spa in Pittsford NY. I had just got my hair done, a blow out...i just wanted good hair if i was going to be standing up in front of a bunch of people. Everything was fine during my blowou ..read more
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