“Caribbean Black”: A Wonderful and Moving Addition to “Discovering a Place for Us”
Artists Claire Jones, Kareena Rivera, Davy Andrek, and Amaranthia Sepia collaborated to create a spoken word poem performance that highlights the traumas Black people experience at the hands of racism in the United States. Claire Jones (the narrator) speaks over...
Discovering a Place for Us
Discovering a Place for Us is a great collaboration that Painted Brain uses to give people a welcoming place to express themselves and their experiences through art. This has become a gift for those involved, to be able to heal and share through the arts. The talented...Unspoken Stigma Around Mental Health in My Family
It is difficult for me to think about what to write when it comes to the stigma around mental health and my family. Rarely, if ever, has mental health been openly discussed within my family. This is not to say mental illness does not take up great space in our world,...
Navigating Internalized Mental Health Stigma
Mental health. It’s a term that can feel so foreign, and yet it affects our everyday lives. Our ability to get out of bed. Our relationships. Our hopes and expectations about today, tomorrow, the next day. The problem of stigma It can be difficult to reflect on our...
Stigmas Around Mental Health in a Jewish/Christian Scientist Family
When I was a kid, I genuinely thought that my mom had a weekly appointment to shrink her head. She already has a very small head, so this was incredibly confusing to me. It was only when my mom took me to see a therapist myself at around 10 years old that she...
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