My Depression Recovery Memoir: Episode 15-Footprints in the Sand

In this video, author and mental health educator Douglas Bloch presents the 15th episode of his new audiobook, When Going Through Hell...Don't Stop! A Survivor's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety and Clinical Depression, adapted from the print book of the same name.

This episode is Chapter 9: Footprints in the Sand. In this video, Douglas recounts the well-known parable that describes how we are living under Divine protection, especially during our most difficult times.

When Going Through Hell ... Don't Stop! is now available as an audiobook on Audible. Click below to view the book.

[jamescarter]

Sir I thank you, I also feel the Lord is walking beside me bless you.

[rachelmoore]

Brilliant Doug, love it. And now I finally understand where Sia’s song ‘Footprints’ comes from 🙏 🥰

For any interested readers:

I've fallen through the floor again, crashed into the basement
Your pain was swallowing me
I was like a lead balloon when I couldn't even get up to
Turn the lights on, the dark was swallowing me
Lord knows you can't trust your head
When you're standing on the edge
I'm breaking down
Lord knows you can't trust your head
When you're hanging by a thread
I was breaking down
And I saw only two footprints in the sand
Thought you'd abandoned me and
Let go of my hand
But you were carrying me
Carrying me to safety
Two footprints, your footprints in the sand
Two footprints, two footprints, your footprints in the sand
Two footprints, your footprints in the sand
Oh what if I had got the things I knew it was I
Who'd abandoned with you
Forgive me, I was lost and found
You had never left my side
Picked me up when I thought I would die
You helped me and I was fine
Lord knows you can't trust your head
When you're standing on the edge
I'm breaking down
Lord knows you can't trust your head
When you're hanging by a thread
And I'm breaking down
Only two footprints in the sand
Thought you'd abandoned me and
Let go of my hand
But you were carrying me
Carrying me to safety
Two footprints, your footprints in the sand
Only two footprints in the sand
Thought you'd abandoned me and
Let go of my hand
But you were carrying me
Carrying me to safety
Two footprints, your footprints in the sand

[candyjay]

Depression forced me to challenge life and it's existence. If anything Depression gave me all the tools necessary to define what life means to me and in the most simplistic way. I think I live to exist and that in itself is purpose.

[californiadreaming]

Thank you, I have this by my bedside. So beautiful

[mushroomcomic]

We all survived a covid winter!!! We can do this. 2021 will be a great year

[jgilbertson]

Thank you for sharing this chapter. The funny thing is that I always hated "footprints in the sand" because I grew up in a very strict fundamentalist Christian sect and had this parable on the wall of many houses, but God was always so so so unknowable and distant due to religion vs spirituality. I didn't feel carried - ever. It's interesting to see this parable from your perspective.

[Bigjamez]

Douglas how do you overcome the feeling of falling back into depression ? Hard to explain I feel I’m getting better but feel stuck at the same time ? I’m not sure if I feel back to normal cause I forgot what normal feels like ?