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Your Foundation for Everyday Mental Resilience
Depression Proof Your Life™️
Meet the Founder
Marian Mills is a disabled Army veteran, mental health advocate, a degree in social work and the founder of Depression Proof Your Life. Her experience is shaped by years of navigating debilitating mental illness alongside repeated hospitalizations and recovery treatment centers — building a deep understanding of what it takes to maintain stability beyond moments of crisis.
Now over six years into long-term recovery, Marian brings a grounded, practical approach to mental health that bridges the gap between clinical care and daily life. Depression Proof Your Life was created to help individuals, veterans, and organizations build sustainable routines, environments, and supports that strengthen mental resilience and reduce burnout.
Introducing the Depression-Proof Method
A preventative approach to mental resilience — built for real life, real people, and real environments.
The Depression-Proof Method™ translates lived experience into structured, repeatable framework.
Rather than responding in a crisis, the Method provides a practical, preventative way to apply Depression Proof Your Life across any area - helping individuals, teams, and organizations build mental resilience through intentional shifts in communication, mindset and environment.
The Method centers on three interconnected pillars: Communication, Mindset, and Environment.
Communication creates relief by giving language to what we've been carrying internally.
Mindset shapes how we interpret experiences, stress, and internal dialogue.
Environment reinforces the spaces we move through, the routines we keep, the people we interact with,
All three are supported by a grounded spiritual foundation- centered on meaning, values and inner steadiness, not religious affiliation.
The Depression-Proof Method
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