Category: Personal Stories

  • Learning to Show Up for Myself

    At the start of 2025, I made a decision that would quietly shift the course of my life: I reached out to a therapist. My anxiety and depression had become overwhelming—panic attacks were constant, and my medication (which I’d been on for over a decade) had stopped working. At first, I tried increasing the dosage.…

  • My Full Circle Moment

    I went to a High School where drug use was normal. I had smoked weed with my friends a couple of times but never really liked it. It always made me paranoid and tired. However, in my friend group smoking weed was just an after-school activity for them while I was at cheer practice. Soon…