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6. Break Your Routine - Going through the same routine, dayafter day, can be monotonous and depressing. It often leads to gettingcaught in a rut. To get out of it you need to temporarilychange your routine. If you can, take a day off from work. Dosomething you don’t normally have time for or something you’venever tried. In the long run, taking a day off every now and then toget out of slump will make you happier and more productive.7. Interact with Animals and Nature – It’s funny when youconsider how humans put so much importance on their own tinyproblems. Animals don’t think this way. A little bird doesn’t mopearound because it isn’t an eagle or because another bird beat it to atasty seed. Animals live in the present moment and they show loveunconditionally. Observing and interacting with them will helpyou get over your problems.8. Get Moving – As Johnny Cash famously suggested, “Get arhythm, when you get the blues.” Moving to a beat makeseveryone feel better. The same is true for movement in general.Hitting the gym or going for a walk will help you shed thelethargy that comes with feeling depressed. The more enthusiasticyour moments, the better you will start to feel.9. Think About the Big Picture – As Carl Sagan made evidentwith the Pale Blue Dot, we’re insignificant creatures living in avast universe on a tiny planet. In the long run, everything we dowill probably be forgotten. Some might find this depressing, but itshouldn’t be. It means that all our problems are illusory. In amillion years no one will remember what you did or didn’t do.What matters is the present moment and enjoying every second oflife that we’re blessed with.10. Do Something to Help Yourself – Above all, the best way tostop feeling depressed is to take action. What is your biggestproblem? How can you alleviate it? Once you decide to stopmoping and start moving forward you won’t have time to feeldepressed. Action will occupy your mind and give you somethingto look forward to. Once you get some results, you’ll buildmomentum and positive thinking will keep getting easier.“Overkill”As I type, I feel pretty confident that my men have a sharedadoration and admiration for each other as human beings and asbrothers. I don’t force the issue any longer and I am standing back,just letting things happen. As a full-fledged, doting Mom, I knowwhen I go into overkill as a cheerleader and brazen evangelist formy kids. I can’t help it. But, lately I’ve taken a step back (it wasactually nice to take a break from the photo shoot this .) Whathappens organically is just magic sometimes.My friend Veronica, a mother of four and a grandmother of twoexplained it best to me the other day: “Being an ‘overkill mom’ issort of like a deadbolt lock. When one door closes, the other doorcan’t open, and that thwarts growth. You have to let kids be kids.You have to know when to walk away. Let things happen –good or bad.”Cutting the cord wasn’t easy with either of my sons. I had made somepretty bad decisions along life’s journey that had me swimming in apool of guilt. But one I will never ever regret, was keeping an intensebond with them. My instincts knew when it was “time” to help themreally find each other. I always felt like I had to make it up to them,patch up my mistakes, love them hard, do more and root for themlouder than my tonsils could endure. It was pee-wee league, but youwould have thought it was the Olympics. Loving these kids withevery cell of my being has always been the easy part. Letting otherslove them as much as I do has sometimes been beyond challenging.The fear of them getting let down or hurt is too much to bear. But Ihave a feeling that this duo (and I) have nothing to fear.All of our hearts and souls are super-glued together. My boys aresafe and sound and so am I, knowing that they are eternally therefor each other.By the way, it’s summer! There’s no bettertime to embrace the beauty of the season.Get out there and take some photos of yourfamily. Share your .jpegs with me and I justmay put them in the next issue!Love and SPF 50,Best Airbrush Tanin Philly!Visit www.sunfastic.com to book your appt now!2054 County Line Rd.Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006215.355.7007www.sunfastic.com50% OFFAirbrush Tan--or--Buy Any PackageGet 1 AirbrushFREEExp 12/31/128 I PhillyFITJuly/August I 267-767-4205 I www.phillyfitmagazine.com