Brave Blog

Interview with author Julia Walton, Words on Bathroom Walls
July 27, 2020
Our This Is My Brave Teens Intern, Anastasia Vlasova, had the opportunity to interview author Julia Walton recently on...
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Straight Outta Therapy
July 1, 2020
In 2010, my doctor told me I was suffering from Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). But I didn’t hear PTSD,...
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Brave the Storm 2020 Virtual 5k Recap
June 30, 2020
On Friday June 26th through Sunday June 28th, This Is My Brave held its inaugural virtual 5k to shine...
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Writing poetry through the pain
June 22, 2020
A few days ago, I received an email from a sweet woman named Becky. She and her husband had...
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At Last
June 21, 2020
Days have come where I wake up A feather is how I would describe The delusional feeling I now...
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Black People’s Mental Health Matters
June 18, 2020
As I enter into the “midlife” stage in the Human Life Cycle, I am grateful for new choices I’ve...
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Black Lives Matter… The Perspective of One Black Woman
June 15, 2020
Anger, disbelief, sadness, and so many other emotions seemed to be on replay as stories of George Floyd, Breonna...
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In Each Other’s Shoes
May 18, 2020
Ever since my diagnosis of bipolar disorder in 2006, I have been trying (hard) to explain what it feels...
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Managing my mental health during stay-at-home orders
May 13, 2020
From the beginning of March, my mindset about a world with COVID-19 was to take it a day at...
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All That It Takes
May 7, 2020
By: Jada Bromberg A smell, A taste, Sometimes that is all that it takes For thoughts to begin swarming...
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