My Road to Recovery and Self-Love My healing began with work on accepting myself for who I am. Read More
I Took Charge of my Mental Health to Live the Life I Wanted I knew I had the power to fix what had been lost. Read More
Navigating BPD and Recovery Rather than numbing my complex feelings, I allow myself to experience them and express them in an honest and healthy way. Read More
Personal Pain, a Pandemic, and Paddle Boarding During the rough times after my husband’s death, I started paddle boarding with a friend and colleague to help with my anxiety. Read More
This is What Mental Illness Looks Like I struggled to complete everyday tasks. I was missing and failing school. I was sleeping majority of the days, crying a lot. I was sad and in such a dark place every single day. But why? Read More
Finding My Power to Speak Up I resigned myself to a sad, hopeless, unfulfilling life. Friends saw me struggle. Family saw me struggle. I never spoke up. Read More
Navigating the Ups and Downs of Mental Illness I came to realize that healing and finding appropriate resources while in a treatment center can be an isolating experience. Because of this, I wanted to share my story to help others who may be feeling that loneliness. Read More
I Don’t Want to Lose Any More Friends: First Responders are Not Alone In the past few years, Officer Victor Machese has lost five of his close friends on the force due to suicide. It was these losses that moved Victor to do more to stem the tide of first responder deaths by suicide. Read More
I’m Grateful For My Mental Health Journey Getting arrested saved my life; though I have two felonies on my record, those incidents encouraged me to get mental health treatment. Read More
Coming to Terms with My Anxiety As I read about other people’s stories of mental illness and recovery, I found myself frustrated by the experiences I could not relate to — the stories where people spoke of being fully healed. Read More