To the Healing Healers
The best you have to offer others will never be a cure-all method, a one-size-fits-most fix. The best you have to offer will always be yourself.
Topic: stigma
The best you have to offer others will never be a cure-all method, a one-size-fits-most fix. The best you have to offer will always be yourself.
My hope is that a fellow Mexican-American will read this and feel seen and heard and validated.
Your empathy will go a long way in assisting our perceptions of ourselves and the world around us.
You will face barriers, whether it’s language, culture, or perspective, but barriers can be broken through communication.
I had to step away from spirituality to understand this lesson. I had to separate myself from something that was telling me that I wasn’t enough.
Living authentically and freely was my only option if I wanted to stay alive.
Imagine someone saying the anguish you’re experiencing is something you made up.
To achieve liberation, we all have to be willing to sacrifice for the collective gain.
I can be a man. I am a man, even if nobody else sees it.
We’re often seen as heroes, but we’re also human.
There’s no way to deny it—this year is different. As we welcome May and Mental Health Month, we’re not only addressing the very thing our work centers on, but there’s also talk about a pandemic, an uncertain future, and physical distancing.
With everything that is happening in the world right now, I feel my depression starting to resurface—it’s waking up with a vengeance as I physically isolate.
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