In this video, I’m breaking down High Sensitivity. What it is, the good, the bad, the ugly, and what I personally do so that things don’t end up getting ugly for me so I can enjoy living my life with the perspective that high sensitivity is actually a gift.

This is my *updated* journey with depression and anxiety and how I’m dealing with my mental health disorders without medication. I break down the essential things I’ve learned, changed, and currently do to keep my clinical depression and generalized anxiety disorder 100% AWAY.

I’ve been talking about mental health and wellness for a long time. I can’t possibly compile all the resources I’ve EVER shared since 2013 – mostly because so many have been live conversations and social media posts – but I’ll use this page to host the honest conversations, videos, and articles I’ve created and been a part of and will create moving forward.

I’ve accepted that I am just one of the millions of Americans that have depression and that my self-care has to look a little differently than others. I’ve been learning my symptoms and their patterns and creating healing rituals that build healthy bonds for my mind, body, and soul. Here are eight of them I can’t do without.

I knew it wasn’t up to me to decondition my family of their century’s worth of preconceived notions about mental illness. Yet I realized, by being honest with them about what I was going through and getting treated for it, it was exactly what I was doing.

Join me and mental health and self-love blogger Yetti from YettiSays.com and Certified10.org for a candid conversation about mental health, therapy, cultural stigma, medication, natural remedies, etc.

Watch as I tell my mental health story. From birth, to growing complexes, codependency, substance abuse, anxiety, depression, and eventually...healing with therapy. Finding a therapy is not the end of the world. Find out how here.

September 10th marks the observation of WORLD SUICIDE PREVENTION DAY, this year’s theme being Reaching Out and Saving Lives. The internet will be flooded with yellow ribbons, statistics and ways to be pro-active in the fight to prevent suicide this month, but how can you reach out and save lives every day?