Dear {{First Name}}, 

May is Mental Health Awareness month. As someone who moves through the world with anxiety and depression, I know how critical it is to reduce the stigma of mental illness and advocate for equitable access to care. And the systems of power, privilege, oppression, and exploitation directly impact our mental health in a myriad of ways - often unequally.

I also know that those of us with pre-existing mental health conditions are going to be among those hit hardest by the ongoing disruption of the polycrisis (climate crisis/ecocide/soci-political upheaval). As we see instances of anxiety and depression skyrocket, we've gotta normalize those can be super sane reactions to the current state of the world. Let us remember during and beyond Mental Health Awareness month what Jiddu Krishnamurti said, "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." Sometimes that maladjustment to society is our nervous system's response to deep dysfunction, cruelty, and trauma. And, as the mental health crisis grows, we've gotta create spaces of mutual support - safe-enough spaces for our nervous systems to feel belonging, supported, and held as we process the dysfunction, cruelty and trauma of the moment and steady ourselves enough to help transform these systems.

We at Good Grief Network understand the value of bringing people together - generating collective support in fragmenting times is medicine. If this is the medicine you need, check out our upcoming offerings.

See you soon in one of our peer support spaces for your next dose of community medicine.

In Community,

LaUra Schmidt

Founding Director | Human Animal | Collective Griever | Author of How to Live in a Chaotic Climate

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