I spotted something on social media – someone remarked that the phrase below had really stuck with them, and helped:
“Thanks to whoever said ‘depression hates a moving target’ – it's now permanently burned into my brain.’
There's common sense in that and plenty of research to show that exercise is a great antidote (to pretty much everything, it's fair to say).
And then later that morning I had a coaching conversation with someone who's in the middle of a life transition: one career left behind recently, and they're in that soupy, grey area where nothing new has revealed itself. Yet.
And, maybe because the quote above was still relatively fresh in my mind, its flip-side suddenly occurred to me: