Beat Your Depression For Good

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter One:
The Palace or the Rats’ Den?

Chapter Two: What’s Stopping Us Packing Our Bags?

Chapter Three: Dealing With The Rats

Chapter Four:
The King Rats

Chapter Five: Forgiveness

Chapter Six: Learning To Live In The Palace

Chapter Seven: Palace Protocol and Etiquette

Chapter Eight: Boarding Up The Rats Den

Chapter Nine: Staying In The Palace

Chapter Ten:
The Palace Regime

Chapter Eleven: Relationships

Chapter Twelve:
The Way To Lasting Happiness

Chapter Thirteen:
My Life Ambition

Chapter Fourteen:
Time For Action

Chapter Fifteen:
Real Life Scenarios

Chapter Sixteen: Recommended Listening and Reading

Foreword

Beat your Depression for Good is an elegant and enjoyable book.
 
It combines all the best aspects of well researched modern psychotherapy combined with sound metaphysical principles and good old common sense.  Demi uses her knowledge of neuroscience to give us a real insight into how our brains work and she does it in a beautifully creative metaphorical way.
 
It is essentially a ‘doing’ book.  It is so easy, as many of us know, to suffer as a result of the stresses and strains of modern living.  Sadly this can sometimes manifest itself in the clinical illnesses of Depression and Anxiety and the multitude of symptoms that can be associated with them.  Depression and Anxiety are essentially primitive negative ‘clamps’.  Beat your Depression for Good will show you how to break the bonds, leave them behind and move successfully, and happily, into the future.
 
We can choose to take control of our lives when wise people give us the facts on which to safely base decisions and harness the inner strengths which all of us possess.  Beat your Depression for Good is a wise book.
 
David Newton
Fellow of The Association for Professional Hypnosis and Psychotherapy
Senior Lecturer Clifton Practice Hypnotherapy Training
Trustee and Chair of the Association for Solution Focused Hypnotherapy

Introduction

If you’re looking for a genuine and practical way to Beat Your Depression for Good you have just found it!

In this book I take you through the process to achieve this, based on the 2 day Courses I teach which I have developed from some 20 years of personal experience and much professional training. I know that if you really work with what is here, assimilate it, integrate it and LIVE it, your life will change forever.

I’ve had many challenges in my own life and, in the past, known depression and despair. I know first hand the incredible benefit of what I teach, which makes me authentic and real. I have learned to live well and feel good about myself and my life just because I am alive, regardless of what is going on around me. It feels fantastic and I truly live in joy. I know I will never experience depression ever again.
I have a rich and fulfilling life through living exactly what I am sharing in this book. It gives me great joy to have helped so many people as clients and even greater joy to now reach a global audience with this book, including you.
With a unique and simple approach to take back command of your own mind, I give new understanding and insight to enable swift progress out of the mire and back into the sunshine again.
This goes way beyond ‘head therapies’ as I call them. It is true that if we’re thinking good thoughts we feel good, and if we’re thinking bad thoughts we feel bad. However, this book is about achieving what we really want:- to feel good about ourselves, our life and our future and know we have the power to stay this way; to be able to overcome our issues, handle life’s challenges, to have good relationships, a satisfying career, financial security - and most of all to have inner peace, joy, good health, wonderful experiences and love.

Feel the relief and the sense of taking back your own power as you once again walk your own self honouring path, aligned with your true integrity. Each step becomes easier and more rewarding as the landscapes you create along your life’s journey become richer and more vibrant so that walking this path is a pleasure all in itself!

Enjoy the journey now back to the ‘real you’ and a great life ahead!

Chapter One
The Palace or The Rats’ Den?

So, you’re feeling depressed, or at least not as good as you’d like to feel.

There are all the reasons that we know or can think of - or sometimes even for no apparent reason - why we’re in this miserable space of depression, yet there seems no real answer. It’s like we’re living in a Dark Den full of Rats and Big Spiders and can’t get out. We just know it feels bad and stuck!

We yearn to have the relief of feeling good, able to participate in life fully, feeling confident and motivated, able to live well and embrace joy and feel it for ‘real’ deep inside, don’t we?

This is the exciting journey I take people on when they come on my courses and that I’m going to share with you in this book. You need never know depression again! Instead you can live well and ‘come home to yourself’ so you feel good just because you’re alive! If it seems a little overwhelming, take heart. Once you understand the straight forward process and concepts laid out here and follow the simple exercises, there is a small Cut-Out section at the back of this book that is all you need to work with to assimilate everything here and create a life of lasting happiness!

How Your Mind Works

To begin our journey out of depression for good and into this dynamic place where we want to be, (and stay!) let’s first understand what’s going on in our brain, our own mind, which of course is where the depression is living. Then we can understand how it is created and what we can do to rectify this.

The brain is an incredibly complex organ, in fact the most complex thing in the known Universe, with immense power! For our purposes simplicity is sufficient and, no doubt, preferable. The drawings of the brain shown below are purely for explanation purposes and do not represent the positioning of the parts of the brain mentioned - we don’t need to get that technical to understand or overcome our problem!

Fig 1 shows a circle representing your brain. You can see the blob representing your Pre-frontal Cortex. This is your conscious part, the part that you know as ‘YOU’ - the part that is your perceptions, interactions, awareness and so on............