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Hey everyone, my name is Tony and I write about living a more active lifestyle to battle depression and anxiety.
During my middle and high school years, I was an overweight, sleep-deprived, and depressed kid.
I lacked self-confidence in myself and would do things to please others, which led to people regularly walking all over me.
Because I didn’t want to be a burden on them, I would sit there and take EVERYTHING people would say about me.
It led me down a very nihilistic path where I wanted to end my life.
I hated how I looked, felt, and thought.
It was not until I hit the lowest point, however, that I started to make some changes.
I was unhappy with how I looked, so I started working out.
At first, I hated it... and then I noticed a couple of things.
I slept better.
I felt better.
I thought better.
And eventually, I started to look better.
After these changes, I was hooked.
My sleepless nights stopped.
My suicidal thoughts went away.
I became someone different.
An active lifestyle saved me: it helped me discover who I truly was beneath the depression and anxiety.
For years after, I would use exercise to manage my stress levels with college, my corporate job, and onwards.
And while I worked that corporate job, there was an entrepreneurial flame within me.
I wanted to help people out on their journeys.
And I discovered what my calling was in my experiences, my story.
I wanted to help more live actively to battle depression and anxiety.
Living with these things suppresses who we truly are as people.
They can consume us.
If I could help you, even just a bit, with a more active lifestyle, I will be doing my part.
And as such, I decided to not only write about this but create a movement around it.
I created Reforged to help others live a more active lifestyle to battle their darkest monsters.
Our mission is to help people discover who they truly are through activity.
An active body makes a more active mind.
And to me, movement has meaning.
Active movement can bring about meaning in your life.
Years ago, I realized I wanted to live when I was running my nearly 13-minute mile gasping for air.
Today, I want to show you that your life has meaning, and there's meaning in the struggle of pursuing to be greater than you are now.
I can’t wait to see what you’ll become.
Until next time!
These past few years have been stressful as hell.
While we can’t always control external chaos, we can control how we take care of ourselves.
Depression can feel like a dark cloud, affecting everything from your energy levels to your relationships.
What many people don't realize is that depression often messes with your eating habits, leading to emotional eating, a loss of appetite, or both.
It's a vicious cycle, but it doesn't have to be a life sentence.
Feeling like depression is an endless battle?
Exercise might be the unexpected ally you need.