I'm an indie author, freelance journalist, artist, musician, and poet. I'm also a fully trained, trauma-informed peer support counselor with certification as a solution-based counseling, cognitive-behavioral and dialectical behavioral therapies practitioner. Through literature and the digital stories I share on this channel, I feel duty-bound to help normalize mental illness, addiction and trauma, increase mental health awareness and fight to end stigma on all fronts.
βThe recovery process is about an individual reaching their fullest potential by making positive, deliberate life changes that impact the quality of their existence. It interlocks a person's self-directed choices with causation of and correlation to mental wellness and a fulfilled and empowered self-efficacy.β - R. Antonio Matta