I’m four years older than my sister and it meant we weren’t all that close as kids. Four years is a long time when you don’t have a lot...

Before this year, I was never an anxious person. I used to listen to my friends describe the anxiety they were coping with and struggle...

My parents were both mentally slow. My father had seizures from Rubella as a child. My mother was a home birth, born with her umbilical...

July 2021 Phew, we made it. Life is starting to open back up, streets are busier, kids are outside with friends playing in sprinklers. It...

May 2021 *trigger warning: this piece mentions assault and self harm* My battle with anxiety and depression started at just fourteen...

April 2021 I feel like my mental health is a constant ebb and flow. From thriving one day, to really struggling a week later. Being at...

March 2021 I was in middle school when I first went face-to-face with anxiety. I was constantly worried about little things like what I...

February 2021 *trigger warning: this piece mentions assault* It wasn’t all bad in the big city. I got married and was clean for years. I...

January, 2021 The phrase ‘mental health’ gives me a sense of comfort because I know I have it. I am forty-three years old and I deal with...

December, 2020 My post partum journey was a struggle from the beginning to say the least. I had envisioned, like many new moms, coming...

November, 2020 *trigger warning: this piece mentions suicide* My story starts many years ago as an eight-year-old. I was abused in foster...

October, 2020 There are a few memories that I can never seem to shake. I was alone in my room at two in the morning and nothing was going...