Why Can’t I Cry? Exploring Emotional Barriers

The inability to accept or fully feel and express any intense emotion can lead to depression, burying us deeper in the trauma we’re trying to escape. The truth is, keeping emotion boxed up makes us weaker, more vulnerable, and more at the mercy of the past. Not feeling does not equal being strong.

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Hope Beyond Diagnosis: Redefining Your Future

Do our challenges with mental illness determine our destination? The answer is often as complex as the diagnosis. But in short, the answer is no. Mental illness does not have to determine our destination. We have the ability to choose the direction our life will take. Life experiences can alter how we get to our destination, but we can choose where we end up.

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Fighting Depression

Depression is real and affects people of all walks of life. There is hope and help. In fighting depression, we cannot control how the enemy will fight, but we can choose to stand our ground.

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Light Behind the Mask

There is light even in the darkest places—even in the darkest parts of us. Mental anguish, regardless of its source, does not take the worth out of its victim. Accepting that reality frees us to own the light and be ourselves.

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Coping Through Creativity

What impact do the arts have on our mental health? I recently participated in a class titled “Coping Through Creativity,” led by my friend Stephanie Nicoletti. Despite my limited visual art skills, I found creating images that expressed my emotions liberating.
In this interview, Stephanie shares how creativity can help us heal.

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