If you haven't already, please try and take 11 minutes out of your day to listen to this video. If you don't have time to sit down and watch it, play it in the background. It is well worth the time, and it is something that I believe needs to be heard by many. While I wish to keep this blog about my experience overcoming anxiety and OCD, depression and anxiety have a lot in common which makes many of his concepts apply. 



Recently, Breel had a poster designed which pulls one of my favorite quotes from the above TedTalk video. The quote, including his words surrounding it, are written out below. 

"...and more than anything, learn to love ourselves. Learn to accept ourselves for who we are, the people we are, not the people the world wants us to be. Because the world I believe in is one where embracing your light doesn't mean ignoring your dark. The world I believe in is one where we are measured by our ability to overcome adversities, not avoid them." 

Let's repeat that..."The world I believe in is one where we are measured by our ability to overcome adversities, not avoid them."

Encore Kevin Breel! Encore!
UPDATE: Poster is available for purchase here.