Tag Archives: Freedom

The Age of Anxiety

Living in the Age of Anxiety Anxiety. It’s almost the most common mental health complaint of young people today.For most millennials, anxiety is listed as a number one complaint among mental health concerns across America. People are anxious, unnerved, worries and conflicted.  It’s something that we have begun to hear of more and more overContinue reading “The Age of Anxiety”

An Ode to Freedom

There’s this fear when you get sober, this overwhelming fear of losing your freedom. It’s easy to romanticize the lifestyle as being free, an experience of rebellion coated with substances abound. I get it. There’s not a lot of other obligations to uphold when your priority is always to get high again. The vulnerability ofContinue reading “An Ode to Freedom”

Courage to Change

Finding the courage to create change, instead of resisting it.

Harm Reduction

Today is International Harm Reduction Day. It is a day that intends to honor the practice of harm reduction in our communities, and the people who champion for that cause. Downtown today, the Harm Reduction Action Center was busy, dispensing kits and patrolling Colfax for possible overdoses. Online, the conversation continues to get heated andContinue reading “Harm Reduction”