More Than the Pain
"My fears kept me silent, and I began to believe every lie depression told me."
"My fears kept me silent, and I began to believe every lie depression told me."
“Sharing our stories is an important part of healing that often gets overshadowed by our fear, our shame, or our pain.”
"Somewhere in my mind, I figured that I would get to go back to my old life after some short-lived sobriety."
“The most important part in recovery is taking the power back and allowing yourself to believe you deserve to win.”
“It took years, a decade nearly, for me to understand the fullness of how I was destroying myself.”
"As we prepare to bid them farewell and safe travels, it feels…too soon. Too soon for goodbye hugs, too soon for sad parking lot waves, too soon for tears."
“While struggling with depression, I have beaten myself up for feeling too much and for thinking that feeling too much was a sign of weakness.”
“Nobody really talks about self-harm here in my part of the backwoods of Canada.”
TWLOHA founder Jamie Tworkowski is the guest on this week's “Sounds Like A Movement” podcast.
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