Hi Reader, A film is a snapshot in time. When we first met this extraordinary young woman, it was eight years ago. Back then, she was Lilah James, an extraordinarily talented fashion and conceptual designer creating a bold, beautiful collection for her final project, "Anxiety Descending." Each look represented a different facet or symptom of her CPTSD diagnosis and she and her work are beautifully represented in our film about her, Recovery on the Runway | PTSD, Mental Health & Fashion. So...

Hi Reader, Melanie du Preez asks herself, in her beautiful new essay on our site, "How on Earth does a psychologist miss neurodiversity in themselves?" Indeed, Melanie lives with autism and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and has lived with it, and its sometimes extremely challenging symptoms, all her life but, as she also says, "turns out that masking is one hell of a drug." And that's the cold, hard truth about walking around every inexorable minute of every exhausting day while...

Hi Reader, In the U.S., we don’t really want to talk about death, and we are certainly not great at dealing with grief. After a profound loss of a loved one, we are expected to get back to work, get back to “normal” after a couple of weeks. Americans are taught to get “over it,” rather than carry our loss with us, processing it and holding it in a place of honor. The Philly Goat Project Grief Walk is a unique invitation for people to come together, to be with other grievers (and goats in a...