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Do you want to discover how to reset your internal chemistry, so you can finally overcome depression and create a truly depression-free life for yourself and those you love? If you’re nodding YES, this episode is for you!

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Hi and welcome back, as always it’s great to have you here! 

Now, today I’m going to share with you a brand-new perspective on how to overcome depression that will completely transform your internal chemistry and ultimately, your entire life – as it did mine.

Now, this is going to be a short but very powerful session and I highly recommend you stick with me until the end because, I’m going to give you a special gift to help you discover your Personal Surviving vs Thriving Ratio. 

Now, this ratio is key in the process for you to not only, overcome depression but actually “depression-proof” your life completely.

In other words, this ratio is a vital component in creating a depression-free life in today’s fast-paced world. But, it will only make sense AFTER you’ve been through this session.  Make sense?

Awesome.

So, in todays session you’re going to discover:

The true root cause of depression. 

Of course, this is vital to be aware of because, if we don’t know what’s the true driver of depression, how can we ever hope to overcome it or fix it?

I mean, we gotta know exactly what we’re dealing with, so we know exactly how to tackle it.  Makes sense, right?

So, this is key to putting the power back into your hands!   

Throughout this session, you’re also going to discover how YOU can control your internal chemistry, rather than it controlling you, which is what’s happening right now.

Now, this may come as a great shock to you! This idea, that you CAN naturally control your internal chemistry…

And yes! It’s a very bold statement to make and I am making it.  

You see, you being able to control your internal chemistry is not some unsubstantiated, airy-fairy, new-age philosophy…

It’s cold-hard scientific fact! 

Now, just take a moment and ask yourself…

If you had the power to change your internal chemistry right now, how would you change it?

• Would you change your internal chemistry so it’s working for you, uplifting you, supporting you in life and giving you the ability to truly thrive and flourish?
• Or, would you prefer to have it working against you, depressing you, draining you and taking away all of your natural drive, motivation and unique abilities to thrive and flourish?

The truth is, whether you’re aware of it or not, right this very minute every single one of us is directing our chemistry in one of these 2 directions.

We’re either triggering health-enhancing chemistry which helps us to open up, thrive and flourish.

Or, we’re triggering internal chemistry which disconnects, shuts down and diminishes us?

Now, don’t get me wrong. This is not going down the line of: “Just think positive and you’ll change your chemistry and free yourself from depression”. 

Because, we all know that doesn’t work and simply chanting positive words or affirmations when you don’t actually feel positive or believe in those words cannot create any long-lasting, authentic changes in our lives.

Simply because, we cannot make the negative, positive, simply by wishing it so. 

This method, on the other hand is based on rock-solid biology and science. 

You see, when you start to truly understand how your body-mind system works, you’ll begin to see that your internal chemistry is not some internal mystical force that you have absolutely no control over.  

You are NOT the victim of your internal chemistry or the victim of your fate.

And, in a moment, you’ll see with crystal clear vision, with absolutely clarity, that the power has always been and will always be firmly within your hands to affect positive change in your internal chemistry, if you so desire.

So, are you ready?  

Are you ready to place yourself back into the “drivers seat” of your life, so you can start moving forward in your life at a great rate of knots and create that bright, abundant, depression-free future you so desire and deserve?

Well, let’s get started…

Now, like I said, I’m gonna make this a short, powerful session and straight to the point.  I don’t normally recommend this during my sessions but today I highly recommend you take notes. 

Okay, so get out a pen and paper, or get ready to type really fast because I’m gonna cover a lot of pretty deep, fundamental stuff in this session, in a really short period of time.

So before we get started, in case this is the first time we’ve met here’s a super-quick introduction to me.

My names Marie O’Neil, I currently live in Britain. I’m an author, the host of Overcome Depression + Thrive podcast, the creator of The 4-Step Formula To Reset Your Body-Mind System After Depression And Antidepressants and I work internationally, as a Life Coach specialising in depression.  

Simply put, I help clients across the globe ‘free themselves’ from depression by sharing the keys I found, which helped me go from being suicidal, in the depths of depression to not only, overcoming depression but also having no fear of it ever returning.   

Okay, so are you ready to transform your depression?

Well, grab your pen and let’s get started!

Alright, first and foremost, to see with absolute clarity, your path up and out of depression, you first need to know about your Autonomic Nervous System…

Now, without getting overly technical, your Autonomic Nervous System is basically ‘the control system’ for your entire body-mind system.

Your Autonomic Nervous System mediates internal homeostasis automatically.

In simple terms, it’s your Autonomic Nervous System which governs your internal balance, and your mental, emotional and physical health and wellbeing.

And, it retains this internal balance, this natural state of health, harmony and overall well-being by a careful movement between it’s 2 branches or 2 separate arms. Between your Sympathetic Nervous System and your Parasympathetic Nervous System.

Or, what I like to call: Your Survival System (Sympathetic Nervous System) and Your Thriving System (Parasympathetic Nervous System). 

It’s this movement back and forth, between these two systems which ‘holds the key’ to freeing yourself from depression, anxiety or even, the after-effects of antidepressants. 

Here’s why…

Scientists have discovered that for us:

• To remain in a fit, flourishing, strong and resilient state…
• For our internal chemistry to remain in a healthy harmonious balance…
• For us to maintain our mental, emotional and physical health and well-being…

We need to spend a mere 20% of our time operating from our Survival System and a whopping 80% of our time operating from our Thriving System.

This is because, it’s our Thriving System which activates our body’s natural healing response.  

So, if we spend around 80% of our time in our Thriving System, we’re constantly regenerating, resetting, refuelling and renewing our internal chemistry, which helps us to effortlessly maintain an optimal state of overall health and well-being.

This naturally, allows us to truly flourish and thrive in life!

But, we’re definitely not thriving in depression, are we?

And, that’s simply because in depression, we’ve lost this balance.  We no long