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More Albums to Help You Get Through This Last month, we gave you a list of three albums that we recommended for anyone looking for a connection in music. For a lot of us, music is an outlet for us to not only express our own emotions through creation...

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Experiencing and tragedy or a traumatic event can send us spiraling out of control. Feeling the sudden sensation of derailment, we find ourselves scrambling to try to get back to a place of joy and peace. Our physical, mental, and emotional infrastructure begin to erode away as we are...

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We are starting to enter that time of year that we always fantasized about every year when we were kids. Halloween is just a few days out now, and right after, it’s time for the spooky decorations to come down and to get ready for the more festive ones...

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When we first go through the process of recovery, it is not a laughing matter to us. Not in the slightest. As soon as we hear our diagnosis, it becomes the most serious thing we could ever think about in our lives. It is the thing that feels like...

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There is an unfortunate reality within the world of mental illness, and it’s an idea that is bred from stigmatizing mental illnesses and not properly understanding the idea. Mental illness just isn’t held to the same regard as other forms of illnesses. For most people, a bad physical injury...

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Like a dark, gloomy symbol of sadness, winter can often be a time where we feel ourselves begin to slip into depression again. Even after recovery, depression will find ways to nag at you; it will continue to keep popping up and cause you trouble. You won’t always know...

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In the summer of 2018, a horror film came out that rattled audiences to their core. A brand new feature from a first time director and writer that nobody knew anything about, really. There had been some talk of it and a few snippets of information that came out,...

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The difference between mental illness and psychiatric disability is a thin one. We think it’s safe to say that any form of mental illness is a hindrance in some fashion. We certainly don’t believe that a disability is simply a hindrance; we would never want to minimize or devalue...

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A sense of community is something that we all long for, even outside of mental illness and recovery. Finding the people we can depend on for support and to lean on is vital for any of us navigating life’s many twists and turns. That community can come in many...

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We’ve all seen the commercials. A person, drowning in grey coloring and cloudy shots, struggling to find joy in their lives and engage with their friends and family. Swimming in a sea of low energy and sadness. Then they find a cure, a fix. Suddenly, the colors are shot...

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