It's 3:16 AND I'M ALIVE

Are YOU?

Whether you work long hours, or struggle to catch your breath… Whether you’re at risk of losing your job or even dealing with issues of life and death… Whatever the reasons, as there could be a variety of them…STRESS happens to all of us. Over time, you’re bound to have developed unhealthy reactions to it, and unhealthy thought patterns that have taken over your life.

Combatting your feelings of stress is not easy and becoming more resilient to it all starts with integrating the practice of gratitude in your life.

It all starts with YOU.

The time has come to adapt to life’s challenges with calm and serenity. You too can learn to generate positive thinking to reduce your stress before it becomes more serious and transforms into a debilitating mental illness!

Getting yourself a massage this week-end will not mean whatever is threatening to your ego will disappear, it will still be there next week. Your spa day or quick escape will not better equip you for the new and relatively unpredictable situations you get faced with in life…

Integrating gratitude into your daily practice though can!

"Left to our own devices, our minds tend to hijack each and every opportunity for happiness. Negativity, entitlement, resentfulness, forgetfulness, ungratefulness all clamor for attention. Whether stemming from our own thoughts or the daily news headlines, we are exposed to a constant drip of negativity. Doom and gloom are on the horizon as financial fears, relational turmoil, global conflict, and health challenges threaten us. […]

Gratitude is our best weapon, an ally to counter these internal and external threats that rob us of sustainable joy. Gratitude rescues us from thieves that derail our opportunity for happiness, and gets us back on track to contentment and inner peace."

Dr Robert A Emmons

World’s Leading Scientific Expert on Gratitude

I'M SOPHIA

First and foremost, I’m a real human being…One with her own scars and vulnerability, combined with a fearlessness to be authentic and speak her truth. I am a major depression and suicide attempt survivor, on multiple occasions. I call myself a mental health advocate, others refer to me as a mental health warrior.

Secondly, I am what I like to call a Mental Health Strategist, which in my case is essentially the combination of a Certified Counsellor and a Certified Coach. Counselling and Personal Development Coaching are the essential part of my work toward helping people BE and in turn FEEL ALIVE.

SAY NO TO STRESS

SAY NO TO UNNESSARY SUFFERING

AND OF COURSE,

BE AND

FEEL ALIVE

It is possible to do this with the right tools and effort on your part to change your negative thinking and this “lack mentality” we’ve all become accustomed to over the years.

A grateful perspective on life is a stress-buster, so grateful people are more equipped than others to deal with uncertainty and unexpected situations that typically trigger anxiety.

This is How MY Grateful Persective Began...

And then, a couple years later, after having recovered from one more major depressive episode…

On March 16, 2019...

3:16 Day 2019...

... some other folks decided to share my perspective

Posting at 3:16 used to be MY thing... This used to be MY movement...

Since September of 2019 though, 6 months away from 3:16 Day...

3:16 pm posts include ALL OF US…

Because this is officially OUR movement!

I REPEAT: It's 3:16 and I'M ALIVE...Are YOU?

So WHAT is the “I'M ALIVE” Movement all abouuuuuuuut?

I’m basically tired of seeing people sleep walk through life, pervaded by negativity in this troubled world. Enough already!

Can we all work toward ending unnecessary suffering together…NOW?

I strongly believe that life happens for us, not to us. Depression didn’t happen to me, it happened FOR me…For me to bring about change in this world and to help as many people as I can BE and FEEL ALIVE, and in essence, live a life worth LIVING.

On March 16^th, 2011, I tried to die. After recovering from my 3^rd depressive episode, I vowed to live my life as ALIVE as possible, because I was very GRATEFUL for the second chance I was given.

Every day I pause at 3:16, take a moment to be grateful to be alive, and post whatever it is I’m doing…Even if it’s something annoying like being stuck in traffic, I’m grateful for the chance to be well enough to be driving and stuck in traffic one more time…

My 3:16 mission was to get people thinking at least ONCE a day, about what they are grateful for in life. The more we do this, the more we decrease stress, diffuse anger, work toward loving ourselves …The more we CAN in fact feel ALIVE.

The mission was put on pause, as I relived a nasty MAJOR depressive episode from July 2017 to mid-August 2018…. There were multiple more attempts to die, I just don’t have exact dates for them as I was fortunate enough to not be hospitalized again.

After 13 very destabilizing and painful months, I recovered from that episode of major depression and slowly made my way back to living out my purpose again…which is to continue to help people with their personal growth and to essentially live more fulfilling lives.

Much of what I have learned throughout my training as a counsellor and coach has solidified for me that being driven by a need for contribution is what leads to one’s fulfillment…As such, I will continue to contribute to bettering as many lives as I can on this earth, until my last breath.

You can join me with this, even if it’s not your life mission per se as it is mine, you can definitely still gain fulfillment from contributing to propelling this I’M ALIVE Movement…a movement for ending unnecessary suffering…a movement of gratitude and hope.

My purpose is for us to work toward greater mental health at large, preventing as many people as possible from ever having to experience this horrible illness called DEPRESSION, by taking necessary steps NOW toward being and feeling ALIVE.

My personal favorite and most powerful step is that of expressing gratitude at 3:16pm every day! At that time, I am reminded of my self-inflicted near death experience, and am just grateful to be alive to be doing whatever it is I’m doing then… (This sometimes take place at 3:16am if I’m awake… lol)

Time and time again, it has been scientifically proven that GRATITUDE improves psychological health. Gratitude is an emotion so well researched, and it’s so powerful it can help us end unnecessary suffering. Why is this important? Because we EACH have a favorite flavor of suffering of some kind, in my case…it’s STRESS.

Appreciation, gratefulness, and love can destroy that suffering, and mine personally ends when I express gratitude on the spot! If I get sidetracked during the day, at least 3:16 rolls around and get I reminded to be grateful for so much more than just what I post on the spot (obviously there’s not enough time to take pictures of EVERYTHING I’m grateful for in that moment…lol)

It’s time to start being grateful about all the good things in our lives! That time starts NOW and every 3:16 Day (March 16th), where I ask that you join me throughout the day by pausing, being grateful, and make a post about it on any social media platform of your choosing. It can be a FB status update or live video, an Instagram post, a tweet, etc, followed by the hashtag, #its316andimalive. I of course invite you to continue to pause with me at 3:16pm (or am) every other day that follows, and express gratitude in that moment. If you can't pause at 3:16pm in your time zone, set an alarm for the 16th minute of another hour, because at the 16th minute of EEEEVERY hour "it's 3:16 somewhere...". It's either 3:16pm in one part of the world or 3:16am in another! Know that at that time, you will simultaneously be practicing gratitude with someone else in the world.

You don’t necessarily have to make a post like I do daily at 3:16pm (in whatever time zone). Whenever you do, though, you might just be inspiring someone else to be grateful and mentally healthier in the long run!

Thank you for joining the Movement!!

THERE'S MOOOOORE!

By signing up at join316.com, You will be a part of a movement where we are coming together to bring H.O.P.E., to Help Open People’s Eyes and bring awareness for depression and suicide prevention. We are going to share gratitude moments every day!

This will be a PRIVATE off social-media community! Free of the distractions, confusion and overwhelm that social media comes with these days!

This will be a space for you to become more self-aware and more empowered every time you enter it. A space where you will actively become more grateful and actively let go of anger that is not serving you. A space where you will be guided by me, Sophia Manarolis, to crush unnecessary suffering and in turn feel lighter, free and ALIVE.

You will also learn more on how to lessen the Negativity Bias by strengthening a habit of feeling grateful instead, with some of the very simple yet powerful exercises provided in volume 1 of the 3:16 Gratitude Toolkit ebook that is offered for FREE as a result of signing up, and sooooo much more which is all outlined on join316.com!

Together we can make this a global movement for greater mental health,

and put 3:16 Day on the calendar, worldwide!!

Together...We can do SO MUCH!

#its316andimalive

JOIN THE MOVEMENT

P.S. Life is too short to be and feel anything else but ALIVE.

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