{"id":811,"date":"2009-12-15T14:12:06","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T14:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/12\/video-christmas-depression-and-marriage.html"},"modified":"2009-12-15T14:12:06","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T14:12:06","slug":"video-christmas-depression-and-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/12\/video-christmas-depression-and-marriage.html","title":{"rendered":"Video: Christmas Depression and Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our sister blogger Therese Borchard at <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\" target=\"_blank\">Beyond Blue<\/a> inspires us day after day.&nbsp; Her brave honesty about depression, anxiety, and recovery has helped so many people&#8211;often by cracking us up and reminding us that humor heals too.<\/p>\n<p>She and her husband Eric just released a video produced by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharewik.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ShareWik<\/a> in which they talk about how holiday depression affects their marriage, and how they cope with it.&nbsp; I was particularly moved by Therese&#8217;s analogy of Christmas as being like a sunny day&#8211;carrying with it higher pressure to be happy.&nbsp; And Eric&#8217;s ability to listen openly and learn from what Therese needs to cope&#8211;and support her in that work&#8211;is as genuinely loving as it gets.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Watch and be inspired&#8211;not in an insipid &#8220;it&#8217;s all going to be fine&#8221; kind of way, but in an &#8220;it&#8217;s hard, but we will make it&#8230;and you can too&#8221; kind of way that will stay with you long after the video is finished.<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/grou.ps\/includes\/embed\/player.swf\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"file=http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/silo.grou.ps\/wysiwyg_files\/Videos\/sharewik\/20091211193737-bsuluxjlglgrplnkl.flv&amp;image=http:\/\/grou.ps\/wysiwyg_files\/Videos\/sharewik\/20091211193737-bsuluxjlglgrplnkl-big.jpg&amp;link=http:\/\/www.sharewik.com\/videos\/808795&amp;backcolor=000000&amp;frontcolor=cccccc&amp;lightcolor=66cc00&amp;screencolor=000000&amp;logo=http%3A%2F%2Fgrou.ps%2Fincludes%2FphpThumb%2FphpThumb.php%3Fsrc%3D%2Fwysiwyg_files%2FGroupLogos%2Fsharewik%2F80.png%26w%3D30%26h%3D30&amp;skin=http:\/\/grou.ps\/includes\/embed\/stylish.swf&amp;autostart=false\" height=\"385\" width=\"640\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\" itxtvisited=\"1\"><strong>Like what you see? <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharewik.com\/\"><font color=\"#023d89\"><strong>Click here to subscribe<\/strong><\/font><\/a><strong> and get Fresh Living in your in-box every day.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our sister blogger Therese Borchard at Beyond Blue inspires us day after day.&nbsp; Her brave honesty about depression, anxiety, and recovery has helped so many people&#8211;often by cracking us up and reminding us that humor heals too. 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