This Is How I Really Feel

I don’t want to hide anymore. (more...)

I was assigned female at birth and spent 28 years living a female experience.  It never felt like who I was. Transitioning from female to male has allowed me to live as my authentic self. I am a transgender man. (more...)

I have my seasons, and I have a right to feel those (more...)

I've heard so many people’s last breaths…and that sticks with you. You don’t forget those.  (more...)

The day I realized i’d washed my hands to the point of making them bleed was a turning point for me. I knew I didn’t have control over my behaviours and thoughts at that time. (more...)

The traumatic imagery stops when i’m with animals. They are my safe place. (more...)

My wisdom as a child, to not tell anyone I had been assaulted, protected me at the time. (more...)

It was easier for me to come out as a lesbian than it was for me to talk openly about having a mental health issue. (more...)

When another child disclosed the abuse happened to him too, it’s like a huge file of information downloaded into my brain and broke me. It’s like a film was playing over top of my life, and I could see, feel, smell the past all over again. I felt like I was walking around totally naked and exposed. (more...)

I do not believe that anyone is free of Mental Health issues… it is just a matter of degree.  (more...)

I’m learning to accept myself without judgement. (more...)

What looked like great opportunity for both my career and my family life, quickly unraveled into anxiety and guilt about not having enough time for my wife and young children. Still, I felt intense pressure to provide for them. These feelings started to pile up and finally, my head and my body just gave out on me. I felt broken. (more...)

We are so fragile, yet so strong (more...)

My whole life is filled with contradiction. My identities are always in a constant battle with each other. (more...)

We’ve been fighting for support since he was 3. We feel isolated and alone as a family as the gaps in the system for children with mental health issues feel insurmountable. (more...)

I was shocked by the amount of medication I was prescribed immediately in the emergency room. (more...)

I’m never really allowed to be me, so I want to be someone else. Anyone else. (more...)

I felt a lack of purpose when my post partum hit me. I felt numb. (more...)

I was badly victimized once, but I’ve been re-victimized by the system ever since. (more...)

I'm learning to give myself permission to finally feel all my emotions (more...)

I hide my self medicating from my daughter. She also doesn’t know that she’s one of my biggest supports as well. I have to keep it together for my kid. (more...)

Isabel was beautiful, weighing 4lbs 2oz. I had no idea that 1 in 4 pregnancies will end in a type of loss until it happened to us. (more...)

I try to relax, and numb myself…if only I could just sleep… (more...)

Transformation is huge for me. I take all the crap i’ve had to deal with, and I turn it into something else with my jewelry. (more...)