Brave Blog

Holiday Gift Guide 2021
November 23, 2021
Hello Brave Community! It’s Program Manager Katie here again with the 2021 This Is My Brave Holiday Gift Guide!...
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Surviving Suicide Loss
November 20, 2021
November 20, 2021, is International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day. In honor of this day, we’ve invited Erin Gallagher,...
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A Passing of the Mic
November 18, 2021
To our Brave Community: I’m writing to share that I’ll be stepping down as Executive Director of This Is...
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Coming Out: A Lived and Professional Experience with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
October 28, 2021
In 2016 my life as I knew it took a deep dive into a dark undertow of the life...
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Trichotillomania: From Concealing to Healing
October 6, 2021
My name is Aneela Idnani. I am cofounder of HabitAware and I pull out my hair.  Whew.  Are you...
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BFRB Awareness Week
October 1, 2021
Body-Focused Repetitive Behavior (BFRB) is a general term for a group of related disorders that includes hair pulling, skin...
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Can “S” be the next letter people will talk about?
September 1, 2021
When you hear the letter “big C” what do you think of? Cancer. When we hear of the letters...
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What we’re Reading/Watching/Listening to: August
August 20, 2021
Happy August! As our summer wraps up, I hope you get a chance to check out what our team...
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Speaking Out to End Stigma
August 4, 2021
Michelle Obama said it best, “Your story is what you have, it’s what you’ll always have. Even when it’s...
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Choose Yourself
July 29, 2021
By Becky LeBlanc I don’t know why people do what they do. I do know that mental health issues...
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