Emily Wu Truong, Mental Health Awareness Community Activist By–Emily Wu Truong “We all struggle in life. We each have our strengths and weaknesses, & of course our weaknesses will make us feel depressed because they make us feel inadequate, vulnerable, and incapable. However, when you confront those feelings of weakness and fear, […]

    Allisa Jones, founder of Survivors with Voices in Texas By-Allisa Jones There comes a time where you look at your life and truly digest your past along with all the things you’ve been through, and decide that your past doesn’t have to dictate your future. For many years I was silenced by fear […]

      By Yesenia S. Lopez-Ornelas I am good. I am the women who I want to be and no person place, or thing can change me or has power over me. I am living life to the fullest; I am healthy and complete. I have a family that is supportive and has be […]

Author and blogger Tanya J. Peterson Like many of the millions of people living with mental illness, I haven’t always been good. My most “ungood” period involved five stays in a behavioral health hospital over the course of a couple years. I was admitted for the first time because of a plummeting ability to function […]

By Kimberly Zamalo I am good. I know I am good because I’m truly the happiest I have ever been. This happiness is due to many changes I have made in my life over the past two years. It wasn’t easy, but I knew it was something I had to do. Before this change, I […]

By Vanessa Flores “When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you until it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn.” -Harriet Beecher Stowe I have struggled with my weight ever […]

By Clayton Hua I am good because I have many regrets about my past but yet I am still happy with who I am today. Throughout my childhood I have always been in trouble especially in school. It was a constant issue that would anger my parents. I could never control myself while at school […]

By Cindy Wilson  I grew up in a very sheltered life. I spent a lot of time hunting, fishing, gardening and just hanging out with dad. Dad was very proud to have daughters and allowed us to feel inferior. I will forever be grateful to him for this gift. My father didn’t just love us, he […]

Charlene Jimerson By Charlene Jimerson All praises to God who strengthens me to fight the fight to maintain mental wellness in spiritual harmony. There was a time when I didn’t know the importance of wellness of the mind, body, and spirit. I allowed people, places, and things to measure the degree of the importance of […]

  Joerell Baldonado on Black Rock Beach   By Joerell Baldonado  Why am I good? I’m good because I’m my own self-fulfilling prophecy. I predict my future, and I make work hard enough to make my dreams come true. I’m good because I’m the first person in my family to attend college. I’m good because I’m […]