An Honest Letter on the Inspiration to Keep Living
Don’t punish yourself for having depression despite all you may or may not have in your life. Don’t require a justification from yourself for something you can’t control.
Topic: recovery
Finding Relief in Strength Training
Since life is full of heavy burdens, strength training has become a metaphor for the way I approach my problems.
Why I Want You to Move for Something That Matters
I am devoted to my spiritual, physical, and emotional health and development. And yet…I almost gave it all up. I once silenced these convictions that drive me to action because I couldn’t bear the heaviness of everything I felt.
One Year Clean
Over the last three years, I’ve strung together periods of time where I was clean from self-harm for a single day, an entire week, even ten months — only to relapse. It’s frustrating. But there’s no shame in that. Today though, I’ve reached a full year of being clean.
What You Deserve
You can take back control of your life. You can talk back to the voice in your head and tell it to be quiet. You can get dressed and leave your home to go to work because depression isn't your boss. You can choose to ignore the things that people say. You can choose to keep going.
We Need to Talk About Depression (So Why Not Start With Mine)
My depression was like getting stuck in traffic. I was there against my will. I was running out of fresh air. Everything was blurry. My thoughts and feelings were crossing and running around, and I didn’t even know if they were mine or someone else’s.
Q&A With Author and Poet Tyler Knott Gregson
On March 28, poet and TWLOHA supporter Tyler Knott Gregson will be releasing his third book titled “Wildly into the Dark.” He describes the work as: “typewriter poems and the rattlings of a curious mind.”
You Will Make It Through Those Nights
You’ve gotten through every bad day you didn’t think you could get through. You’ve gotten through every night you wanted to kill yourself and every day you wanted to die.
Films That Show Us the Power of Community
Our hope is that by highlighting these stories of human struggle, emotion, and triumph, we can share the connection between TWLOHA’s message of hope and film’s ability to make us feel and relate on a deeper level.
What It’s Like to Feel Like You Are ‘Not Sick Enough’
This piece is for the girls, the boys, the men, the women, and the non-binary human freaking beings of the world. This piece is for anyone who has ever felt like their struggles and their pain doesn’t “count” because they don’t “look sick.”
Your Mental Health Is Not a Shameful Secret
Secrets so often are associated with shame. In keeping these pieces hidden, I feel like I would be endorsing the view that mental illness is something to be ashamed of and it’s just not.
Why We Must Renew Our Vows to Recovery
Hope can be hard to hold onto when, in the course of our efforts, we face inevitable challenges like insurance coverage cutting out early — for many folks, this may even happen repeatedly. When fighting against life-threatening mental illnesses, this extra effort can be exhausting.
