In this episode of Keep Swimming, Annaleise Easlea shares a deeply personal and practical framework for surviving depression, anxiety, burnout, and emotional exhaustion — especially in the moments when you feel like you have nothing left to give.

Instead of pushing through or pretending to be strong, this episode offers a softer path: borrowing what you need. Hope, belief, energy, perspective — from people, stories, memories, nature, even from your past or future self.

Annaleise speaks from lived experience, exploring how emotional survival isn’t about doing more, but about leaning gently on what’s around you when your own strength runs out.

This is a compassionate space for anyone living with mental health struggles, suicidal thoughts, or chronic overwhelm. A reminder that you don’t have to go without. That you’re allowed to borrow. And that one day, simply by living, you’ll give it back.

Borrow to survive. Give back by living.

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