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At Voices Meet Minds, we think everyone deserves to feel seen and heard in their struggles with mental health. So while it’s uncomfortable to talk about, we wanted to spread awareness of the mental health struggles in the Black community and share our genuine compassion for those who are struggling. Black adults are more likely than white adults to report emotional distress. According to the Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health, Black adults in the U.S. are mor

introduction Hi everyone, Thank you for all the support on last week's blog post and last week's content. We really appreciate it! This week, we wanted to tell our founding story at Voices Meet Minds, since it is key to understanding where we're at right now and how we want to grow and move forward as an organization. Feelings AS our foundation Voices Meet Minds didn't start as a nonprofit. It started as a feeling. A feeling that people were carrying so much inside them with

Welcome to the Voices Meet Minds Blog! We’ve been updating the blog for a while now with the Collective Journal, Thought Wall, and Stories of The System. But we know that’s not all we have to offer or to share, so we’ve decided to add blog posts to share our perspectives on the millions of things going on in the mental health space right now.

If I were a bowl, I would not be lifted new from a shelf. I would be one that shattered, but not from being dropped. From something inside it growing larger than the space allowed. I carry the philosophy of kintsugi with me because it reflects my culture and how I understand healing. Not as a return to what once was, but as an ethical act of repair. Breakage is never random. Some cracks are caused by force. Others by neglect or mistakes. And many by systems that were never de

The nurse looked at my self harm scars and said, "I have seen worse. Cutting down is better than cutting across." It made me want to try cutting down more than across.

I don't remember a lot of what I went through, and I lost/had my journals taken away as I cycled through the system. At one place I was...

My name is kelly I'm 21 and I've been in the psych ward 3 times. I have bipolar and generalized anxiety disorder...

My name is Marissa I am 20 years old and in 2015-2016 I was hospitalized 3 times. I went to a place called _______ in _____ Washington...

I have spent my life since I was 8 trying to figure out what is wrong with me. I am 16 now, and the strongest diagnosis I have got was...

I arrived at the hospital in 2019 when I was twelve-years-old, after my mom called the ambulance because my therapist at the time told...

Back in February, I was in a high security psychiatric hospital for suicidal ideation. While I was there I tested positive for Covid-19...

This is for all the kids out there who are being let down. But especially the autistic ones, whether they know it or not - I see you...

To Whom It May Concern, My name is Mira Sunwon Goldstein. On April 24th, I will turn fifteen. I have two cats named Mercutio and Emerald...

My name is Mira Sunwon Goldstein. I’m 17 years old. I love cats and the color purple. I run for fun along the beach. I sing in the shower...

The past is addictive when the present is in anguish. The future is pasted in the rearview of our minds. We’re aware but the hope for...

Her flower curls up into hibernation. She’s always asleep; She’s never the blossoming garden I wish her to be...

She finds a cardboard box in her cobweb covered basement next to the dusty plastic Easter eggs and the toy drum filled with white...

There are moments in my life where I believe the stars align and that life has so much love and adventure to explore. Where I point to...

Everyday I wake up at ten in the morning. I watch some videos on the internet and daydream about being someone else, somewhere else...