Donni you got me crying because for me 2023 was a disaster. I pushed so hard through 2024 that 2025 will be my year!!! Thank you for being transparent!
All internal pain comes from self-denial on some level. It's the body's way of communicating that it's not happy and will even make you physically ill. This is where the saying comes in "The heart wants what the heart wants" This was a good video because all people's issues are really because they ignoring their emotions. You must trust your heart and be true and authentic or depression is sure to follow. Great video
This is a reminder to check in with myself. Often as the "strong friend" and "support " for others, we completely overlook ourselves while on autopilot, and we get lost in that. Thank you for this, as it was so needed.
As a nurse I experience what you’re speaking of. Health is really wealth. Don’t forget iron because that’s what’s converts tryptophan to neurotransmitters aka serotonin. Vitron with vitamin c on an empty stomach. Stay consistent these medications take time and follow the directions - b and c is water soluble. The rest are best with food/fats. Donni love you and wishing you all the best and hope this is your last experience with this battle. But as fixers we can try to pull our selves out just honor the feelings and document the timing and stay as you’ve been doing. Love you
I feel like it's extremely important for coaches to have a season like this. This gives them a better understanding of why some people just CAN'T show up any more than they are. It gives them first hand knowledge on how to work through and around this mental state with compassion and empathy. Glad you're feeling better!!! I truly believe this season will help you help even more people. ❤❤❤
Omg I relate. 41 and was diagnosed with depression a couple months ago. I’m the strong friend and I’m generally very optimistic, yet I couldn’t understand why I couldn’t shake whatever “this” was. No motivation, fatigue, just blah. I initially thought I was just taking a breakup hard until I realized it wasn’t that specifically. Perimenopause was kicking my azz! I gained 15 lbs in 2 months and I was lifting weights regularly. I think constantly fixing things/problems caught up with me and I just had nothing left to give. I just felt stuck. 2025 will be remarkably better because it has to be. And I’ve established more boundaries. I can’t save or help save anyone but myself right now.
Donnie girl... that's why we love you so much....cause girl... you're talking to your big sis over here... and I'm so glad that you shared...soo soo relatable... thank you❤❤❤ God bless you.
Yes 2024 gave me the vision to pick what I want in my life and what I don’t want in my life and that is the GROWTH I need to position myself going into this new life. Glad you got better Donni ❤
In tears! I feel like I’m looking in the mirror and talking to myself. The outer body experience is spot on. I see it. I’m not myself. I’m just moving through space. I feel hopeful that I’m on the cusp of change. I needed this video.
I’m glad your doctor checked your bloodwork most ppl start treating the symptoms w/o knowing the underlying issues, vitamin D deficiency is definitely linked to depression as well as magnesium etc but the accutane is such a huge culprit. I myself survived depression after my sisters death two years ago so I understand, You’re doing great and such an inspiration❤❤❤
Thank you! I needed this. 2024 was impossible for me, but I felt guilty because I had so many things to be grateful for that I just pushed through what needed to get done and made sure no one could see the struggle. Cried in the bathroom, stayed on the couch and put on my strong woman face.
Thank you for the SERVICE you provide to ME as an ACEO ❤. So many gems, but the ONE that stuck with me was this. One of my greatest BLESSINGS is that I am loved, liked and appreciated by many. They are also used to my being, unavailable and focused on something right…”that Venita is always working and building”. So when I was deep in my own depression, they didn’t know 🤷🏿♀️. Plus I was still able to muster enough to be present for the BIG events, and then crawl back to my hole. Mind you I am also a therapist, just not practicing at the time. A girlfriend and my little sister, both retired Veterans were able to see something was off, and went IN on me ❤ which is what was necessary for me to be activated. To get the professional support. Thankful for my cheerleaders, and for sure the Day ONES who KNOW ME and CHECK me.
Donni thank you for being transparent. This was me in 2022 and 2023. 2024 was the 1st year that I started coming out of the darkness. However this is a daily struggle and task. I love you girl ❤🙏🏾✨️
I'm soooo happy you did this because this is me. I didn't go anywhere externally but did go somewhere internally , however it has taken me a min to recognize thay progress. By you sharing this makes me feel seen and validated because social media has me thinking I was the only person having 768 rebirths this year.
Anytime I hear “the preg question” I know for a fact that its side effects are very horrible for the body. Our cervix is our creativity chakra. The sacral place. I’ve been here before infact about to sue a company because I ended up with a brain tumor. As side affects. 🙏🏽🙏🏽 praying for a even greater 25❤
Such a real, necessary and honest conversation. I can assure you, you made the right decision to share. As a woman period, then adding the heavy crown, we often unintentionally neglect ourselves. It's so important to check in with ourselves as well as communicate what we need to others. When we are the supplier, people often assume we don't need anything. Loved the transparency of this episode 😊
Donni, I always appreciate your insight. Ive been out the loop for a minute but i have some catching up to do with your content. Funny how i started with this one. Its incredibly relatable. You hit it on the head with what many people suffer through in silence. The tips for overcoming was key for the folks who dont know how to get through it. Introspection. Dope vid 🔥 -twin flame
This was an eye opener that I have to pay attention to what my body and mind is saying, and I need to truly focus on taking care of my health and mental state. Thank you so much for your transparency and amazing life and business advice that you always provide the world❤
Amazing episode, Donni! I’m glad you’re talking about this. I’m 34, and I resonated with some much of what you said. I am on medication for my depression, and have been since 2019. My depression mainly comes from my trauma and toxic family relationships. My psychiatrist makes sure I get my blood work done annually. My vitamin D and iron levels were low, so my doctor prescribed me those vitamins in November 2024. Last year in 2024, I suffered really badly with depression. I was depleted spiritually, physically, and emotionally. I didn’t talk to God in prayer much at all. I wanted to just sleep or just lay in bed doing nothing. My exercise routine was just okay, and I fell off for months. Despite this, God made sure to refresh me daily through listening to sermons, listening to Christian podcasts, listening to worship music, and fulfilling the calling He has on my life. I have been in the process of fulfilling my calling since 2020, and it’s been difficult, but I continued to show up for myself. I obtained my second certification in October 2024, and I am very proud of myself. I made sure to celebrate my accomplishments in relation to my calling by writing them down and looking at them weekly. As of December 2024, I began to feel better physically and slowly feeling better emotionally. I’m slowing getting back to Jazmin, and I’m sure that working out along with the other spiritual activities I mentioned above will help. I look forward to more amazing episodes from you here in 2025!
Same here! I turned 40 in 2018 and developed hormonal acne. I took Accutane in for less than a year in 2018-2019. I stopped. It dried me out to the point that I used olive oil only to watch my skin soak it up like a dry thirsty sponge. I began losing my melanin by developing light spots on my skin. I struggled emotionally. I’ve completely changed my diet to eliminate any food that caused a break out. At this point, it does not matter what I eat. I break out and have blemishes. Now, I focus on minimizing the breakouts. I use bentonite as a tonic and in my facial clays along with charcoal. It definitely impacts my self esteem. Thank you for your continued honesty on this topic.
Thank you so much for sharing this. Depression can be a beast and it can literally rob you of your true identity. Thank you for being brave enough to fight back. The world needs you. 2024 taught me that I’m much stronger than I thought I was. 2025 is going to be all about God introducing me to the version of me that He created me to be. ❤❤❤
Donnie thanks for sharing and being so transparent! 2024 felt extremely unfamiliar to me. I fought daily to keep it together! But I made it through! I’m so absolutely grateful and inspired for 2025!💚
This! "I need you to find your way back." 2024 has really taken me on a ride. I too didn't recognize myself and God and I had been tussling. This was a message for me. God is doing a new thing. Praying for my own restoration. Thank you for sharing this!❤
Wow!!! Thank you for the honest conversation and transparency. I honestly felt the same throughout 2024. Giving the BARE minimum.!! The amount of times I want to say eff everything. Wow. The part about supplements, I will consider adding that to my life.
I so can relate to your story! I have been struggling all year with not being motivated feeling depressed and holding down a job and my business. Thank you for sharing. I don’t feel alone.
I experienced this… give yourself all the grace you need…sending much love and prayers your way. I’m 41 and midlife crisis and lots of change in my life at once tried to take me out of here!!! We are also in end times and the devil is doing his job frfr. But God! I honestly don’t know how I’m still here… rest, it is well in Jesus’ name.
Thank you for being authentic an open with your life's journey❤ We appreciate you. May 2025 be the recover year for many of us. May our cups not only be filled up, may our cups be overflowing with improved health, joy, love, more appreciation for the little things along our journeys, a clearer guidance and continued love and protection from God.
Donnie! This year was a literally DISASTER for me! Lost my mom to colon cancer and sister 90 days later out of NOWHERE 😢when I say the amount of heaviness that I’ve walked in this year idk what’s going on! I honestly don’t know how I made it till today
🙌👏👏👏Thank you for your transparency! Donnie, see if a dietician can help you learn how to help your hormonal skin issues. I had major gut issues that the GI doctors couldn't put their finger on. I finally went to a dietician, and I found out how foods have hormone proteins in them. Certain foods were not working for my blood type. The dietician saved me! Perhaps you can find some relief.
Wow, I was on accutane this year the same duration as you and went through the same exact experience. You just helped me realize some of the symptoms I had was accutane , I actually just thought my body was changing because I was about to turn 30😩😩 so good to know majority of it was accutane related
Love the Transparency had a year similar and listening to this and Social Proof I’m crawling out of it so I can show up and show out next year #ReboundYear
Dang this is type deep..Donni literally saved her own life by rejecting those poison ass “anti depression” drugs. Good for her I wish I could give her a nice long hug 🫂
Lawd I have been there....I stopped going live for that exact reason....like how I'm going to share motivation and inspiration, yet I have none at the moment
2024 was a challenging year. Dating?! What's that? Time for myself - barely. In God's perfect timing, my siblings and I are helping with the care of two (2!!) elderly family members.
Donni you got me crying because for me 2023 was a disaster. I pushed so hard through 2024 that 2025 will be my year!!! Thank you for being transparent!
All internal pain comes from self-denial on some level. It's the body's way of communicating that it's not happy and will even make you physically ill.
This is where the saying comes in
"The heart wants what the heart wants"
This was a good video because all people's issues are really because they ignoring their emotions.
You must trust your heart and be true and authentic or depression is sure to follow.
Great video
2024 was very challenging for me too. When I opened up about it, I saw that many of my peers were experiencing the same.
This is a reminder to check in with myself. Often as the "strong friend" and "support " for others, we completely overlook ourselves while on autopilot, and we get lost in that. Thank you for this, as it was so needed.
As a nurse I experience what you’re speaking of. Health is really wealth. Don’t forget iron because that’s what’s converts tryptophan to neurotransmitters aka serotonin. Vitron with vitamin c on an empty stomach. Stay consistent these medications take time and follow the directions - b and c is water soluble. The rest are best with food/fats. Donni love you and wishing you all the best and hope this is your last experience with this battle. But as fixers we can try to pull our selves out just honor the feelings and document the timing and stay as you’ve been doing. Love you
I feel like it's extremely important for coaches to have a season like this. This gives them a better understanding of why some people just CAN'T show up any more than they are. It gives them first hand knowledge on how to work through and around this mental state with compassion and empathy. Glad you're feeling better!!! I truly believe this season will help you help even more people. ❤❤❤
Omg I relate. 41 and was diagnosed with depression a couple months ago. I’m the strong friend and I’m generally very optimistic, yet I couldn’t understand why I couldn’t shake whatever “this” was. No motivation, fatigue, just blah. I initially thought I was just taking a breakup hard until I realized it wasn’t that specifically. Perimenopause was kicking my azz! I gained 15 lbs in 2 months and I was lifting weights regularly. I think constantly fixing things/problems caught up with me and I just had nothing left to give. I just felt stuck.
2025 will be remarkably better because it has to be. And I’ve established more boundaries. I can’t save or help save anyone but myself right now.
Donnie girl... that's why we love you so much....cause girl... you're talking to your big sis over here... and I'm so glad that you shared...soo soo relatable... thank you❤❤❤
God bless you.
Yes 2024 gave me the vision to pick what I want in my life and what I don’t want in my life and that is the GROWTH I need to position myself going into this new life. Glad you got better Donni ❤
I was on Accutane in my twenties and again in my mid thirties..it was in my 30's that it cause depression for me and I was immediately taken off
So many of us were going through this in 2024, including myself. I pray for healing amongst us in 2025 and beyond. Thank you, Donni! 💐🙏🏽💐
In tears! I feel like I’m looking in the mirror and talking to myself. The outer body experience is spot on. I see it. I’m not myself. I’m just moving through space. I feel hopeful that I’m on the cusp of change. I needed this video.
I’m glad your doctor checked your bloodwork most ppl start treating the symptoms w/o knowing the underlying issues, vitamin D deficiency is definitely linked to depression as well as magnesium etc but the accutane is such a huge culprit. I myself survived depression after my sisters death two years ago so I understand, You’re doing great and such an inspiration❤❤❤
Thank you! I needed this. 2024 was impossible for me, but I felt guilty because I had so many things to be grateful for that I just pushed through what needed to get done and made sure no one could see the struggle. Cried in the bathroom, stayed on the couch and put on my strong woman face.
Thank you for the SERVICE you provide to ME as an ACEO ❤. So many gems, but the ONE that stuck with me was this. One of my greatest BLESSINGS is that I am loved, liked and appreciated by many. They are also used to my being, unavailable and focused on something right…”that Venita is always working and building”. So when I was deep in my own depression, they didn’t know 🤷🏿♀️. Plus I was still able to muster enough to be present for the BIG events, and then crawl back to my hole. Mind you I am also a therapist, just not practicing at the time. A girlfriend and my little sister, both retired Veterans were able to see something was off, and went IN on me ❤ which is what was necessary for me to be activated. To get the professional support. Thankful for my cheerleaders, and for sure the Day ONES who KNOW ME and CHECK me.
Donni thank you for being transparent. This was me in 2022 and 2023. 2024 was the 1st year that I started coming out of the darkness. However this is a daily struggle and task.
I love you girl ❤🙏🏾✨️
I'm soooo happy you did this because this is me. I didn't go anywhere externally but did go somewhere internally , however it has taken me a min to recognize thay progress. By you sharing this makes me feel seen and validated because social media has me thinking I was the only person having 768 rebirths this year.
*that
We on the same frequency! Let's go!
Anytime I hear “the preg question” I know for a fact that its side effects are very horrible for the body. Our cervix is our creativity chakra. The sacral place. I’ve been here before infact about to sue a company because I ended up with a brain tumor. As side affects. 🙏🏽🙏🏽 praying for a even greater 25❤
Listen! The way this message hit So Hard!!! Thank You Donni for your transparency!!!! Looking forward to 2025!!!
Thanks for your transparency
Such a real, necessary and honest conversation. I can assure you, you made the right decision to share. As a woman period, then adding the heavy crown, we often unintentionally neglect ourselves. It's so important to check in with ourselves as well as communicate what we need to others. When we are the supplier, people often assume we don't need anything. Loved the transparency of this episode 😊
Congratulations on this new chapter❣️
Thank you for your transparency. I went through it too and actively getting back to a new me. Not the old me.
Yay! You figured it out! Greater days ahead for you!💥
This is full transparency!! I love the vulnerability & growing to love you more!
thank you Donni. this is why we love full transparency ❤
Donni, I always appreciate your insight. Ive been out the loop for a minute but i have some catching up to do with your content. Funny how i started with this one. Its incredibly relatable. You hit it on the head with what many people suffer through in silence. The tips for overcoming was key for the folks who dont know how to get through it. Introspection. Dope vid 🔥
-twin flame
Appreciate the Full Transparency Donni! Looking forward to the face lift, let’s gooooooo! 🎉🎊
Thank you for this Donni sending love and prayers your way 💕🙏🏾
This was amazing! Thank you for your transparency!! We needed this!! They needed this!! 💯💯💯🦋💎✨👏🏾🙏🏽🙌🏾
This was an eye opener that I have to pay attention to what my body and mind is saying, and I need to truly focus on taking care of my health and mental state. Thank you so much for your transparency and amazing life and business advice that you always provide the world❤
Thank you for recording and posting this…keep going. No time imposter syndrome! 💕
Thank you for your vulnerability! This was a very powerful episode!
Amazing episode, Donni! I’m glad you’re talking about this. I’m 34, and I resonated with some much of what you said. I am on medication for my depression, and have been since 2019. My depression mainly comes from my trauma and toxic family relationships. My psychiatrist makes sure I get my blood work done annually. My vitamin D and iron levels were low, so my doctor prescribed me those vitamins in November 2024. Last year in 2024, I suffered really badly with depression. I was depleted spiritually, physically, and emotionally. I didn’t talk to God in prayer much at all. I wanted to just sleep or just lay in bed doing nothing. My exercise routine was just okay, and I fell off for months. Despite this, God made sure to refresh me daily through listening to sermons, listening to Christian podcasts, listening to worship music, and fulfilling the calling He has on my life. I have been in the process of fulfilling my calling since 2020, and it’s been difficult, but I continued to show up for myself. I obtained my second certification in October 2024, and I am very proud of myself. I made sure to celebrate my accomplishments in relation to my calling by writing them down and looking at them weekly. As of December 2024, I began to feel better physically and slowly feeling better emotionally. I’m slowing getting back to Jazmin, and I’m sure that working out along with the other spiritual activities I mentioned above will help. I look forward to more amazing episodes from you here in 2025!
Yea Donni, thank you for sharing..I've had the hardest 3 years, but I feel as if it's turning around.
Thank you for your transparency Donni.I love you 💕
Same here! I turned 40 in 2018 and developed hormonal acne. I took Accutane in for less than a year in 2018-2019. I stopped. It dried me out to the point that I used olive oil only to watch my skin soak it up like a dry thirsty sponge. I began losing my melanin by developing light spots on my skin.
I struggled emotionally. I’ve completely changed my diet to eliminate any food that caused a break out. At this point, it does not matter what I eat. I break out and have blemishes. Now, I focus on minimizing the breakouts. I use bentonite as a tonic and in my facial clays along with charcoal. It definitely impacts my self esteem. Thank you for your continued honesty on this topic.
Thank you so much for sharing this. Depression can be a beast and it can literally rob you of your true identity. Thank you for being brave enough to fight back. The world needs you. 2024 taught me that I’m much stronger than I thought I was. 2025 is going to be all about God introducing me to the version of me that He created me to be. ❤❤❤
Thank you so much for this Donni!
Donnie thanks for sharing and being so transparent! 2024 felt extremely unfamiliar to me. I fought daily to keep it together! But I made it through! I’m so absolutely grateful and inspired for 2025!💚
Wat up Donni! Yea we all striving
2024 fight of my life But Hope faith , Determination.Thank you Transparency is Key
Thank you for your transparency beautiful. Blessings to you 🙏
This was so good ! More solo esps please ! 🧡🧡🧡
This! "I need you to find your way back." 2024 has really taken me on a ride. I too didn't recognize myself and God and I had been tussling. This was a message for me. God is doing a new thing. Praying for my own restoration. Thank you for sharing this!❤
Wow!!! Thank you for the honest conversation and transparency. I honestly felt the same throughout 2024. Giving the BARE minimum.!! The amount of times I want to say eff everything. Wow. The part about supplements, I will consider adding that to my life.
I so can relate to your story! I have been struggling all year with not being motivated feeling depressed and holding down a job and my business. Thank you for sharing. I don’t feel alone.
Health and Wellness is pertinent to our top tier daily lives!
I experienced this… give yourself all the grace you need…sending much love and prayers your way. I’m 41 and midlife crisis and lots of change in my life at once tried to take me
out of here!!! We are also in end times and the devil is doing his job frfr. But God! I honestly don’t know how I’m still here… rest, it is well in Jesus’ name.
Thank you for being authentic an open with your life's journey❤ We appreciate you. May 2025 be the recover year for many of us. May our cups not only be filled up, may our cups be overflowing with improved health, joy, love, more appreciation for the little things along our journeys, a clearer guidance and continued love and protection from God.
You are on it!
I created a SuperThread 🧵on this exact topic. I described my year as Profound Disappointment
I love this....
Donnie! This year was a literally DISASTER for me! Lost my mom to colon cancer and sister 90 days later out of NOWHERE 😢when I say the amount of heaviness that I’ve walked in this year idk what’s going on! I honestly don’t know how I made it till today
I didn’t know perimenopause was a thing either until this year and I’m going through it😩
Thanks for sharing. ❤ This year was intense indeed.
Sooo relatable, thanks for sharing!
🙌👏👏👏Thank you for your transparency! Donnie, see if a dietician can help you learn how to help your hormonal skin issues. I had major gut issues that the GI doctors couldn't put their finger on. I finally went to a dietician, and I found out how foods have hormone proteins in them. Certain foods were not working for my blood type. The dietician saved me! Perhaps you can find some relief.
Wow, I was on accutane this year the same duration as you and went through the same exact experience. You just helped me realize some of the symptoms I had was accutane , I actually just thought my body was changing because I was about to turn 30😩😩 so good to know majority of it was accutane related
Love the Transparency had a year similar and listening to this and Social Proof I’m crawling out of it so I can show up and show out next year #ReboundYear
Yes Donni, I remember you saying that you wanted to get back to bed on an episode. Thank you for this episode and I will take action on me.😊😊😊❤❤❤
my heart dropped I thought you were about to say the last episode period 😭
I swear by my vitamins and supplements daily!
Dang this is type deep..Donni literally saved her own life by rejecting those poison ass “anti depression” drugs. Good for her I wish I could give her a nice long hug 🫂
Lawd I have been there....I stopped going live for that exact reason....like how I'm going to share motivation and inspiration, yet I have none at the moment
Love me some Donni.
This was a good message, sis. Get to the bottom of it.
2025 will bring about Love ,joy, peace and Prosperity A.K.A The Golden Age, RECONSTRUCTION will began❤
Accutane is where the danger is!!!! 😢😢 that medication is WILD!
Also 2024 was a horrible year for me to lol but i understand this is just something I had to go through to prepare me for 2025 so I stayed joyful
🙏🙏🙏🙏
This was my 2023
This episode this episode this episodeeee! My God. Thank you Donni! 🫶🏾🙏🏾
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HOPE HOPE HOPE
Kicking mine too😤
I would have enjoyed her unpacking this with a therapist.on the show.
Great convo tho.
That vitamin D deficiency will do it! Thanks for sharing
🌹🌹🌹🌹✨❤️💎❤️✨🌹🌹🌹🌹👑💫🎁
2024 was a challenging year. Dating?! What's that? Time for myself - barely. In God's perfect timing, my siblings and I are helping with the care of two (2!!) elderly family members.
I like these videos more where it's you talking instead of interviewing people.
Spiritual warfare and 25 gone be worse if not on right side
Mannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 😢😭