Remember why you started

Whether you’re rediscovering, working on your mental health or healing traumas. The idea of working on these things is seldom spoken about, or actually addressed, because they hold a lot of shame, judgement and guilt. I started this page and stepped so far outside of my comfort zone, I lost sight of it, in order to be a space where people could come and feel understood, heard, and safe. & bring a sense of hope to what felt hopeless. I share my experiences, and the story and journey of my mental health. Even when it isn’t always the easiest thing for me to do, because I want above all else, for people to know they aren’t alone. Living in a world where you don’t fully understand yourself, your emotions, your thoughts, and you struggle to try to cope with them everyday, can be a very very lonely, exhausting and dark place. You can be surrounded by people and loved ones, and still feel completely alone. The stigma behind struggling with mental health, not being okay, and needing help, leaves so many silently suffering. I try to be a voice, like the voices before me. Because they were what gave me hope. They were what helped me to believe I wasn’t alone, it wasn’t just me. & they showed me that life could actually maybe be better than the internal suffering I felt I had just about exhausted. Others sharing their stories is what got me to the place I can be today. It gave me the courage to seek help, and ten plus years later I am at a place 17 year old me couldn’t even imagine. I am so far from having it all figured out. I still have very low points, and fluctuate between the depths of depression to the heights of happiness and managing emotions. But- I’m still here. & while I’m still working on it everyday. I am leaps and bounds from where I was all those years ago. So I’ve shown myself, and I want to show others, it is possible. We are in this together. And we are not alone. And we can keep fighting, and keep going. Because the life we want is possible and it’s worth fighting for. So I will continue to share. I’m rooting for you. 🤍