For me, the worst part about mental illness is when it makes you feel like you have to suffer alone (Spoiler alert: this is a lie. A LIE.).
Last year, I saw that Holly @ The Fox’s Hideaway was looking for writers for a project called Shattering Stigmas. I immediately jumped on the opportunity because it looked like fun. I’d also recently started my journey to deal with some of my mental health issues and felt really alone, so I thought this might be a way to help create some sense of community for myself. It did. It also taught me that I had a voice, that my story mattered. I am so excited to have the opportunity to help host Shattering Stigmas this year. I can’t wait to bring you personal essays and interviews over these next two weeks from some of my strongest and most amazing friends. I hope everyone will be able to come away from this event with the feeling that by openly talking about mental illness, we have contributed to destroying the stigma around it.
Please support the writers of all the posts on my blog, which are listed below. Please check out the other host’s blogs: Holly @ The Fox’s Hideaway, Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight, Inge @ Of Wonderland and Vlora @ Reviews and Cake blogs too for more posts! Taneika is also making some awesome videos on her channel Flipping Through Pages. We will be giving away six mental health reads at the end of the event, so be sure to enter in the Rafflecopter at the end of this post! I hope you’ll stick around for this awesome two weeks-we all worked super hard to bring you these heartfelt and heart wrenching stories.
Schedule of Posters:
10/2 – Taylor Tracy
10/3 – Q&A with Tiffany Rose
10/4 – Katie Guttenberg
10/5 – Paula Stokes
10/6 – Shalena Mathews
10/7 – Anonymous
10/8 – Aurora McNally
10/9 – Q&A with Akemi Dawn Bowman
10/10 – Troix Jackson
10/11 – Lyla Lee
10/12 – Q&A with A.S. King
10/13 –Miriam Scull
10/14 – KM/Cody Roecker
10/15 – Hannah Moskowitz/Wrap Up!
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I’m so, so glad you approached me on hosting. I love your passion for this project, and I’m so excited to read the posts you’ll be sharing, especially the author interviews!! 🙂
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Ahhh Holly. Thank you so much. I love this project so much-I mention it to almost everyone I meet LOL-classmates,counselors, etc. I am so excited to share all of these posts with you because everyone put so much hard work into this and I am just so proud of everyone. 🙂
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I can’t wait to read the posts on your blog! I know you have some awesome stuff coming up, and I’m glad I’m on the team with you this year. Thanks for all you’re contributing!
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Ahhhh thank you so much Vlora! I’m so excited to share them with you. Can’t wait to see your posts too!
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