Life After My Mom’s Overdose
I had never viewed my mother as an “addict.”
Stay Another Day
When I was 27, I downed a bottle of sleeping pills.
If You Want to Find Healing, Sometimes You Have to Stop Looking For It
Loss, Grief, and Making Things Hurt A Little Less
I was scared to be hopeful because that’s exactly when things would come crashing back down.
Silver Linings and Possibilities
If you go to the Merriam-Webster website and search “silver linings,” you’ll find this definition: a consoling or hopeful prospect.
World Mental Health Day: A Global Concern
Mental health affects us all, regardless of who we are and where we come from.
Hope Is Universal and Help Should Be Too
I wish that when you look to TWLOHA for hope, you find the support you need, you find a voice on the other end that hears you, a voice that sees you, one that’s there to hold hope for you.
Redefining Success in Order to Stay Alive
I lived on a hamster wheel, in constant fear that I would lose everything I had earned if I dared to stop and take a break.
Courage and Compassion
How do we hold onto hope, when everything seems bleak?
Survivor’s Guilt
I’ve heard of it before, this phenomenon where the ones who survive the unthinkable wrestle with immense guilt for the very act of surviving, to a point where they find it difficult to celebrate being alive.
Your Future is Worth Sticking Around For
I still have days where I struggle with simply existing.
The Story Of My Life
The story of my attempted suicide wasn't the entire story of my life...
