Hi. My name is Autumn. I've always been fit and relatively healthy until I had a massive depression while trying to get my doctoral dissertation ready for defense, working full-time, commuting, getting married, while still grieving the end of a very selfish 15 year relationship/marriage that started when I was 19. 3.5 years after my divorce, after very little dating, I found my Prince. I married David and then soon after was hospitalized with a life-threatening depression for a year and a ...

Hi. My name is Autumn. I've always been fit and relatively healthy until I had a massive depression while trying to get my doctoral dissertation ready for defense, working full-time, commuting, getting married, while still grieving the end of a very selfish 15 year relationship/marriage that started when I was 19. 3.5 years after my divorce, after very little dating, I found my Prince. I married David and then soon after was hospitalized with a life-threatening depression for a year and a half. When my stay was over, on my first Sat. out, I took David to the CN Tower for dinner to celebrate and specially to thank him for his loyalty, attention and love and also to say "this is a new start". That Tues., a transport truck hit and run David (truck's fault), crushing in the driver's side of our 3 mo. old new car. David wasn't hurt - thank God - and the guy got away essentially, but they eventually caught him. We can't sue here quite the same, so we didn't get any money out of it, just a refurbished car. That was 5 years ago. Now, I want something new and positive for the next 5 years. I've left the ex and his demeaning family behind; I've left academia behind. I need to learn to take care of myself and get fit and trim again. With the medication I'm on for depression, and binging for emotional reasons, I gained about 80 lbs. Now I want to lose them. I have an incredibly supportive husband. My treatments for the depression resulted in the loss of most of my adult memory, including our wedding, etc., Now, it's basically David and me. All my life, I've loved helping people (my main degrees are in psychology and I developed an effective academic and social intervention for post-secondary students who are learning and other wise disabled become successful academically and socially) and now look forward to contributing to this site. In the future, I'd love to teach restorative yoga (I just (Nov. 2011) passed a teacher training!) (Thank you CarolJean :-) and be a life coach. I really look forward to getting to know you and your goals. We're all in this together! :-) Thanks for listening. I'd love to hear about you now...
Namaste.
Autumn

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