Skip to content

12: Finding Your Bliss Despite Depression and Anxiety (with Whitney Lang)

After experiencing complications from a virus, Whitney Lang found herself experiencing anxiety and depression. After trying to dull her pain with alcohol, she made the choice to get help, which triggered a chain reaction of choices that led her to a thriving new business, building a new home, and finding bliss in her daily life.

 

Nuggets of Wisdom from Whitney:

  • “Follow your bliss.”
  • “My bliss is all about being happy and feeling good and making healthy choices and just that feeling of overall good energy.”
  • “There were many occasions when I would drink myself into comfort.”
  • “I went back down the path of drinking and smoking again. I was really hating on myself for it. Yet I consciously did it. I was physically and emotionally depleted.”
  • “I decided I needed to get really honest with myself about what my issues really were. I identified that I needed to seek help. I finally mustered up the courage to see my family doctor and he diagnosed me with being severely clinically depressed and I got on medication and it honestly changed my life.”
  • “I have a great life. I have a wonderful family and a healthy little boy. There's nothing bad about my life, but I still struggled with the anxiety and depression.”
  • “After starting depression medication I was way more patient with my son's toddler tendencies. I was way more patient with myself, too. It was much easier for me to speak my truth.”
  • “I've learned that when I surround myself with positivity I'm just overall a happier person. On social media I follow positive people and I unfollow the Negative Nancies.”
  • “When I meditate I take a moment and I'm ‘Hoovering' my soul.”

 

Some of Whitney's Favorite Things:

  • Personal habit: prayer and meditation and finding her bliss. “I force myself to take a few moments to regroup throughout the day and focus on the big picture. My meditation is a guided meditation.”
  • Easy meal: Hamburger patties over sauteed portabello mushroom with veggies and quinoa.
  • Possession: Essential oil diffuser. I like to diffuse lemon or citrusy oils in the morning because they help wake me up.
  • Book: The Desire Map by Danielle LaPorte. “She guides me to look inside my heart and soul for the answers and she helps me focus on how I want to feel.”
  • Bucket List Item: “I want to take my son to DisneyWorld and take my whole family along, too. I also want to travel to Australia and New Zealand some day.”
  • Best Advice received: “Don't put off until tomorrow what can be done today.”
  • Happiest memory: When she married her husband Arthur.

 

Whitney's Happiness Formula:

“I am happiest when I wake up before my son and get to have quiet time and gather my thoughts, when I pause to have moments of gratitude and meditation, when I'm eating pretty clean and being active, and when my home is in order, organized, tidy and clean.”

 

A Challenge from Whitney:

“Try my ‘Soul Hoovering.' Make time for yourself throughout the day. Take a few deep breaths. Think of what you're grateful for. Gratitude is seriously the biggest mood booster ever. Taking a few moments to focus on the good in your life will seriously transform your entire day.”

 

Resources:

 

Enjoy the Show?

 

 

OTHER WAYS TO ENJOY THIS EPISODE:

JR - About 2021 Banner Image-01
About jen

Jen Riday is a mom of 6 and life coach who loves to help women experience massive happiness as they let go of stress, sadness or other chronic emotions of negativity.

JR Sidebar Optin
Free training

Lost track of what makes you happy? This free video training will teach you how to implement the boundaries you need so you can feel happier. 

Latest Posts

Lost track of what makes you happy?

Learn how to implement the boundaries you need so you can feel happier.

LIVE EVENTS ARE COMING

Add your details below and we will email you details as they become available.

FOUR PART VIDEO SERIES

Almost there! Please complete this form and click the button below to gain instant access.

JOIN THE WAITLIST

Pop your details below and we'll let you know as soon as the Vibrant Happy Women's Club is open for enrollment

Scroll To Top