Positive Changes: A Self-Kick Podcast
3 years ago

S3:E20 – Recognising Depression with Jim Shoopack

Can you recognise the signs of depression in yourself?

Are you able to ask for help on the days when you need it most?

🎙In this episode of POSITIVE CHANGES: A SELF-KICK PODCAST, Shelley F. Knight talks to Spanish teacher and soccer coach, Jim Shoopack about his 100 days of hell - when Jim was living with depression but did not know that his signs and symptoms had a name.

👥 Join Shelley and Jim as they talk about depression, mental health, talking therapies, antidepressants, asking for help and accepting it, and finding the courage and energy to create positive changes. 

"Es mejor perder un minuto de la vida, que perder la vida en un minuto." (It's better to lose one minute of your life, than to lose your life in one minute.) 

💻 JIM'S LINKS

💻 SHELLEY F. KNIGHT LINKS

ABOUT SHELLEY F. KNIGHT

Shelley F. Knight is a once upon a time nurse turned writer who provides an eclectic blend of clinical, holistic and spiritual expertise in her specialist subjects of Positive Changes, Spirituality, and Grief.

She is author of Positive Changes: A Self-Kick Book (November 2018), and Good Grief: The A to Z Approach of Modern Day Grief Healing (24th September 2021 with O Books).

Shelley is also host of the award-winning show, Positive Changes: A Self-Kick Podcast.

Shelley holds a first class degree in adult nursing, and post graduate studies in Palliative Care and Life Limiting Illness, Pathophysiology of Cancer, Cytotoxic Chemotherapy, and Clinical Hypnotherapy.

In addition, Shelley holds a plethora of holistic and spiritual qualifications, including Transformational Regression Therapy, Spiritual Coaching, Spiritual Development Teacher, Holistic Diagnosis Skills, Mindfulness, Neuro Linguistic Programming, Herbalism, and Dream Therapy.

She is also an intuitive Tarot card reader, and intuitive Tarot coach, with gifts of clairsentience, clairaudience, and clairvoyance, inherited from her ancestors.

Shelley is passionate about encouraging individuals on a transformational journey towards positive changes, particularly following times of loss in their life, be it the loss of a known and trusted way of life, or loss of a loved one.

She has set up the Good Grief Northampton Death Cafe to provide a safe space for people to share their experiences of grief with others, and an accompanying Facebook page to support others beyond her home county of Northamptonshire.

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