I would love to hear your words. Only If you’re comfortable and happy for us to read them. Feel free to post away - good, bad, happy or sad. There are no expectation or requirements. Just the freedom to express and share.

This piece was done for a young man to show him the reality of his anxiety, Very descriptive, purposefully so he could relate to it on a physical level. By doing so he felt understood in a way he didn’t think he could be. Not because no one else feels it, but because he had never spoken so precisely about such feelings to anyone. Let’s just say it made him comfortable enough to open up a wider conversation. It helped - and now he can look back at this piece and re trigger the positive outcome that came from it.

Welcome to our community Kelly, Thanks for joining. Feel free to chat and post your writing, or enjoy reading what’s here. We’ve just started so appreciate you jumping on board ✨

As a father of two teens (now 18 and 19) watching them grow through covid, the disruptions through school, cyber bullying and the resulting anxiety, depression etc it broke our hearts time and again. The support was and still is pretty non existent. Partly as they were minors and the whole system is over stretched, and also because the schools didn’t know how to react and respond to the post pandemic issues. The good news is we got there, after a long 5 years I’m proud to say I am the father of two well rounded, kind and thoughtful kids (young adults). Not as they were, never as they were but just as good in fact better. They now have experience. Understand more and have empathy. I encouraged both my kids to write and express their feelings. It wasn’t always nice to read, as a parent realising the hurt and dark place they can go is heartbreaking, but it helped massively and gave them an outlet that didn’t judge or have an opinion. It’s a great way to help kids as well as adults, to try and make sense of how they feel, and it can also be a valuable insight for us as parents into what’s really going on in their heads. Neither of them write anymore but it served its purpose, and I’m pretty sure if they ever needed to, they could go back to it.