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Project Semicolon

Feb 2, 2025

In 2013, Amy Bleuel went to social media and asked anyone who had struggled with a mental illness to draw a semicolon on their wrist and post a photo. A semicolon symbolized that a sentence wasn’t over yet, and neither was their life. Just like that, Project Semicolon...

Listen Don’t Fix

Jan 15, 2025

Anytime that I speak at an event in Winnipeg, I try to connect with my Uncle Ray. When he first found out that I was struggling with mental illness, he was upset that he had not known sooner. He believed that these were the very issues that a family needed to discuss...

Mental Health and Connection

Dec 19, 2024

With a six-hour layover in Halifax, I walked into Customs this morning hoping that they could squeeze me in for my Nexus interview. I approached the counter stating my intention, and a man asked me what I did for work. After telling him that I was a speaker on topics...

Project Semicolon

Listen Don’t Fix

Mental Health and Connection

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“What’s stronger than a broken man who has the courage to rebuild himself? It’s time to redefine what it means to be strong.”