So since y’all have always been so nice to me, and we’ve been talking a lot about our issues and FEELINGS and the general losing of one’s shiz, and just…yeah…the dreariness that is Winter and the S.A.D-ness that it brings about. Oh wait! Stop. Do you know what S.A.D is? It stands for Seasonal Affective Disorder and if you live somewhere like Ohio, you probably know someone who has it.
Anyway, in celebration of saying goodbye and GOOD RIDDANCE to January (one month of winter down!-Woot), I thought I would ask my friends at Nature bright if they’d hook one of you lovely people up with your very own S.A.D Happy lamp again.
And they said, “for you, our esteemed Kirsty Sayer of the brilliant Momedy Blog-ANYTHING”. Or they may have said, “yeah ok, sure.”
‘Cos they are cool like that. It’s all the happy light they are soaking up. I’m sure of it.
As you may remember, that thing changed my life. I used it religiously for a few Winters but for some reason this year, inexplicably, I forgot all about it. Actually last year too. I blame the baby. (For a lot, until she’s old enough to object). And not so surprisingly since forgetting about it, I have struggled with the S.A.D-ness ever since.
No more! After all the angst of late I suddenly realized…D’oh! I pulled my magical box out of my closet and am basking in the glow as we speak/write/read and despite the fact that I am incapacitated at this moment and in considerable pain (due to doing something reallllly stupid). I’m feeling perkier by the minute. And my friends, it is UGLY grey outside. Just not pretty. Even so, I’m feeling happier every second. I find it miraculous. Miraculous I tell you.
It’s Summer on my couch today…all blissed out- messed up back not withstanding..
As I have said in the past. Winter (with its accompanying grey darkness) tends to make me inclined to become a bear. As in literally. As in a bear going into hibernation. I start eating carbs like it’s my job-and so I begin to resemble a bear. I become as still as is humanly possible-like a bear does during hibernation. I actually feel paralyzed. I become anti-social (even more so than usual) and irritable (even more so than usual) not unlike a bear disturbed from hibernation. Ah how my family and friends love it. It’s just a special, special time for all of us.
A few years ago after hearing about them for ages, I finally broke down and got myself one of these marvelous things and people, my sweet, kind, good people I am not kidding you when I tell you it changed my life. Best $120 I ever spent. No lie. Behold the (cue: heavenly choirs)
NatureBright Sun Touch Plus light and Ion therapy
After this came into my life, I no longer started getting all melancholy in the Autumn because of what would surely follow…I lost a ton of weight (in the Winter!) my activity and energy levels became equivalent to what they were in the Summer (I am solar powered) . The beast, she was silenced. And the townspeople rejoiced. It was (have I mentioned?) magical and marvelous. And that is when I became evangelical in my zeal for this product and here we are.
I have referred to myself as the modern Florence Nightingale as I have been known to make house calls with this lamp to friends in similar distress (until they realized the magic for themselves and hustled to get their own lamp) and now I shall knight myself Flo of the Internet. Not quite the same ring but it works.
Let me just say, I am not getting paid or compensated in any way for this glowing (haha get it?) endorsement. Consider it a PSA. Consider it my gift to you by way of the generous folks at NatureBright (who really should be hiring me as their official PR spokesperson and sending me flowers for my birthday-February 6th if they are reading- for the vast amount of business/hype I have given them over the years and if you knew how much I hate selling stuff, you’ll know it’s that good. )
Here are some answers to FAQ’s I’ve had over the years. Or you can just check out the naturebright website.
But yeah, really and truly it’s that good. Since I like you guys and I like feeling good and assumed you do too, it seemed like a good fit during this, the most depressing time of year.
Let’s do this thing.
If you’re feeling S.A.D or you know someone who is inclined to, please enter to win. I’ll make it easy since I know from painful personal experience that motivation/thought processing during this time is minimal. Ok all you have to do is:
1.Like me on this here blog---> look in the side bar
AND/OR
2.”Like” me on Facebook
AND/OR
3. Subscribe to my RSS Feed
AND/OR
4. Cut ‘n paste following blurb, (or one like unto it) on facebook
Just entered to beat the winter blues by winning a S.A.D Light Therapy lamp from Kirsty at Momedy! (momedy.blogspot.com)
AND/OR
5. Put cut and paste the following blurb on Twitter (or your own like unto it)
Just entered to beat the winter blues by winning a S.A.D Light Therapy box from @momedykirsty (momedy.blogspot.com)
So! I have given you FIVE (5!!) different ways to enlighten yourselves (the puns, they just keep coming, it’s bigger than me people…just go with it).
You may do just one of these things to gain an entry or you may do all 5! It really depends on how much you want to win this thing.
JUST BE SURE (for the love of light!!!) TO POST A SEPARATE COMMENT BELOW THIS POST FOR EACH ENTRY.
Ok so get on that without delay, or supervise your miserable, whiny, unmotivated carb inhaling friends/family members as they do so. I will be picking a winner on February 6th. (Did you know that was my birthday? I like chocolate. And diamonds. And pretty much everything at T.J Maxx. Just sayin’)
xo
linking to we are that family's WFMW, because this most certainly works for me.
Don’t be S.A.D, don’t be blue! Have I got a Winter Blues Banishing GIVEAWAY for YOU!
Posted by Kirsty at Thursday, January 31, 2013
Labels: Depression, Evangelical product endorsements, Giveaway, Mental health, SAD, Winter
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58 comments:
I already have you in my Google Reader but I did just like your FB page. It's kind of funny, but when you were posting about feeling sad, etc. I thought to myself "I wonder if she knows about those lamp things." Of course, I was too lazy to comment and say that.
Anyway, I've been thinking about getting one because I work from home, in an office we built in our garage and it has NO windows, so I'm in a cave all day, and am wondering if one of those lights might help. So, I liked you on FB. :)
I liked you on facebook!
I also posted on facebook!!
https://www.facebook.com/OurFunnyLittleFamily?ref=stream
I liked you on fb, though, I liked you already
I liked you here, though, I liked you already
Commenting again for my fb like. Yes, I suffer winter blues.
Per your instructions, commenting again to say that you're in my reader. ;-)
I talked about you on Twitter.
...and on Facebook too. Seriously, a hug would be awesome!
You're on my Rss feed too ( though I think you were already there. - or maybe it was one of your former addresses?)
i liked your blog (long ago!)
I liked you on facebook.
I liked you on facebook.
copied and pasted your blurb on my facebook page (cause I'm not original)
I subscribed to your RSS feed long ago...(That's 4. I don't have a twitter account so I'm only 4/5.)
I liked you on Facebook!
Win or not, I'm adding one of these to my Amazon Wishlist!
Posted on Facebook!
Posted on Facebook!
You are so totally liked on fb.
I am a full-fledged liking member here on your blog. And I like you in real life. You were an angel to me the other day. Thanks simply won't do...
I liked your facebook page and posted your article on my page. I hope that counts for an entry. I really need a SAD light this year. Carolyn Gertsch
I did it on twitter too! Carolyn :)
I followed you rss feed too
I liked you on facebook.
I posted your blot on my fb page
I put you in my twitter feed.
And I followed your rss feed. If you can't tell I am desperate for some help with my S.A.D.
Copied and pasted the blurb on the fb. -Dudolph
I liked your post, but I don't need a S.A.D. lamp so I won't do all that other stuff. I live in VERY sunny SA. Dying of heat here.
Love you so I liked you HAHAHA!!! <3
Trena
We get a lot more grey dreary days here in NW Florida than you would think in the winter.
I tweeted.
https://twitter.com/FrugalFocused1/status/298866069462982656
I already like you, and follow your rss feed, for the record. So if that counts, great, if not, that's okay, draw again.
I like you on facebook. And yes, I live in sunny southern California BUT my mother-in-law lives in Utah and always seems to get depressed during those long grey winters they have there. I've been trying to get her to buy one of these for years!
I also subscribe to your RSS feed (or at least I think I do--you're in my Google Reader, which is the same thing, right?)
I subscribed by email and confirmed it and everything :-)
I liked you on Facebook!
I liked you here and on facebook, subscribed and tweeted. Even though I don't need a sun lamp because it is sunny almost every day in winter in my blessed land :)
I subscribed to your feed ;)
I liked your FB page again ;)
I like you on fb
Oh, and I follow your blog and like you there too :)
Posted on FB
I posted on FB :)
I posted a blurp on FB about the give away :)
I'm liking u all over the place. Your directions made sense to me today....must have been the sun.
Posted in my timeline
Tweeted
Liked on fb
Liked on fb
G+
I tweeted: https://twitter.com/mttsm/status/299305088231559168
I facebooked: https://www.facebook.com/carmenstaicer/posts/10151243636257111
And I Liked you on the book of Face...
I like you on fb
I follow on Twitter
I follow the blog
I posted on fb and I am your best neighbor
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