For me, music has always been a major source for joy and even strength for me. I know I’m good as long as I’m singing. When it comes to my mental health, music is one of the major Wellness tools that I utilize and it’s always, always around me. Music can help pull me out of […]

        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 […]

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 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 […]

    By Sundeep Nijjar  I am good because I strive to be the best person I can be every day.  This comes in aspects of being a good son, husband, student, worker and most importantly dog owner!  I have had many difficulties in life where I have had to put my personal goals on hold for reasons […]

By Kacy Walker I’m good! I’m good because I keep my head up everyday even when things seem like there not going the way I want. Somedays are harder than others and sometimes it seems like Im always battling the world and what is going on but I have family that I love and an […]

By Phat Ly I’m good. But I wasn’t always good. I have so many regrets about my younger years that at any moment I can feel angry or sad just by seeing or hearing something that reminded me of an awful time. My father passed away, and at his funeral I was almost happy he left. […]