"How I Rewired My Mindset After Hitting Rock Bottom"
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Rock bottom isn't just a place you land — it's a place that can bury you if you're not careful. I know because I've been there. The sleepless nights. The panic attacks. The endless hurdles. The feeling that every step forward only led to another dead end — or worse, multiple steps backward.
Somewhere between the breakdowns and the breakthroughs, I realized the only way out wasn't to rebuild my life first — it was to rebuild my mind.
My life had taken such a damn beating that fixing it felt impossible. Until one day, I stumbled across something that hit differently:
*"Impossible" simply means I'm Possible."
From that moment forward, nothing seemed unattainable in my mind. So I began there.
Daily, I committed to three simple rituals:
Waking up at the same time every day
Stretching throughout the day
Taking a 30-minute walk in nature
These small actions, practiced consistently, became good habits — and slowly, they made me feel good about myself again. So I kept building on them.
I dedicated time to self-care.
I educated myself about how my medications were impacting my life — and the lives of so many others.
I learned what foods, exercises, music, and habits could help me heal — and for the first time in a long time, I felt a real sense of purpose.
I created social media accounts and started following life coaches and medical professionals who shared real strategies for healing and personal growth. I made it my mission to heal myself — with the hope that one day, I could live a more fulfilled, purposeful life.
And now... I am.
In this post, I'm sharing the real steps I took to rewire my mindset when giving up felt easier than starting over.
My mission is simple: to help as many people as possible step out of the dark shadows that haunt us all.
Just the hard-won truth that healing is possible — and it begins inside you.
1. The Breaking Point
For nearly 20 years, I was chained to a regimen of 11 different medications, three times a day. A full pharmacy packed into my daily routine — and yet, nothing changed. The side effects kept piling up, the symptoms never truly eased, and with every pill swallowed, a little more of my hope disappeared.
I wasn’t living. I was surviving — barely. And somewhere deep down, I knew: if I didn’t find another way, this cycle would eventually break me completely.
2. The Shift in Mindset
Depression isn’t just sadness. It’s a slow erosion of everything you believe about yourself. It swallows you whole, piece by piece, until you forget who you were before the darkness set in.
For me, it wasn’t just my own soul that suffered. My children, my wife — they felt the sting of it too.
The guilt, the helplessness, the distance that depression builds between you and the people you love most.
One day, staring at a life that felt smaller and darker than it had ever been, I realized something had to change — not around me, but inside me.
I couldn’t wait for life to heal me. I had to fight my way back, starting with my own mind.
3. The First Rituals
The hardest part wasn’t the rituals themselves — it was getting started, and staying consistent.
When you’ve been lost for so long, you don’t even know what you enjoy anymore. Everything feels foreign. Even the smallest efforts seem pointless when you crave immediate results.
I was desperate for a cheerleader — someone, anyone, to tell me I was doing it right. But the truth was brutally clear:
I had always been doing it alone.
Pain is a lonely place. Depression is even lonelier.Still, I began with three simple daily rituals:
Waking at the same time every day
Stretching throughout the day
Taking a 30-minute walk in nature
No fanfare. No miracles. Just quiet, persistent steps.
And somewhere between the exhaustion and the resistance, I found something surprising: a spark of self-trust I hadn’t felt in years.
4. Building Momentum
Those tiny steps, as unglamorous as they were, became my foundation.
Stretching led to walking. Walking led to breathing easier. Breathing led to wanting more from life than just survival.
Every small victory built a little more confidence. And the more I showed up for myself, the less I needed external validation.
Healing wasn’t one massive leap forward — it was thousands of tiny steps taken on the days when it would have been easier to quit.
5. My Ongoing Mission
Today, Best Of Me is more than a brand — it’s a living testimony that rebirth is real.
I turned my healing journey into a mission to help others find their way out of the darkness too.
If you’re reading this and feeling stuck, broken, or buried under the weight of it all — know this:
You are not alone.
Healing is not a straight line. Growth is not always visible at first.
But the decision to try — to choose yourself, even when it feels impossible — is the most powerful act of self-love you can make.I’m living proof that rock bottom isn’t the end. Sometimes, it’s where you learn to rise.
