Mental Health was greatly stigmatized in my community as I was growing up. It wasn’t spoken about unless someone, who might have been exhibiting some kind of challenges, was pointed at and spoken of in a derogatory manner or at…
How has the first part of the year treated you? Some of us have loved, some of us have lost, some of us have been heard and some of us have been hurt. We’ve had a slow start to the…
After months of grueling back and forth work on our NEW and improved website, we decided to finally let go and share it with you all! In the words of the great Art Woodard, “what you have is good enough.”…
I am writing from the lovely Denver Colorado where we are attending the Recovery Leadership Conference by Faces and Voices of Recovery! I started off with attending an equity dinner, an incredibly moving event where we got the privilege to…
I’ve always been the one to turn away from the status quo. Pre-recovery, I was on the extreme! If you said white, I’d say black, if you said left, I’d say right and took great pride in my contrarian stance.…