Reducing the stigma around mental health
By Patrick Bailey It was two years ago, but I can still clearly remember that the rain was falling very hard when I confronted Eric. I was asking him why he and my best friend Maria were kissing in that photo on my messaging app. I couldn’t get an answer. Continue Reading
By McKenzie Lewis We learned about it in grade school when we were astonished to see a caterpillar turn into a butterfly. How could something so guarded and caged transform into something so colorful, beautiful and strong? How can something that didn’t even make a movement stretch out wings and Continue Reading
Resilience is leaving an abusive home | Resilience is living in 3 homeless shelters | Resilience is what makes me | Stronger than my past experiences
By Craig Inches Modern Warrior We live in an age of warfare, not only along national, religious, political differences, but personal warfare. Every day millions of us wake each morning to do battle with our inner demons. For each day we survive, fresh scars upon our minds and souls; we Continue Reading
By Jonathan Reyes ‘Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s Continue Reading
By Lush’el Johnson ***Trigger warnings for self harm*** It’s been 4 weeks since I last punished my own body to release the pain I was in. My last self harm incident was whilst I was a patient on a mental health ward. I confessed and handed in my blade a Continue Reading