

Life!
Shortly before 2021 transitioned into 2022, I got together with a close friend whose daughter died of suicide in 2019. My friend, the father of the young woman who passed, and I sat across from each other and shared about how the world’s beauty can be impossible to access when a person is suffering from mental illness. Having experienced my own psychological pain, I know what it feels like to have a mind that lies to me, in my own voice, telling me things that are as easy for