Healing doesn’t mean we get rid of what has happened. We don’t undo the trauma, we don’t ‘right’ the ‘wrongs.’ These wounds don’t disappear.

Instead, we learn to carry our hurt. We stop ignoring it, we stop hiding it, resenting it, pushing it down deeper. We stop letting it weigh us down. We learn strength, we learn resilience. We learn how to carry it.

Asking for help is not an easy feat, especially when you're unsure of what you need help with, where you are in your journey, and you're too lost to even know where help is. Depression is a mental illness that is ridden in shame and heaviness, but it doesn't need to be that way. Read here about Paige's journey to recovery.