Mental Health Matters Now and Forever
Intersect believes that wellness, both physical and mental, are important practices we all can do to resist the pressures of society. One of the most radical activities you can do is to practice self-love and care.
This House is Not a Home
This house, is not a home.
Its given me more dark days, than light ones
More punishments, than rewards,
More anxiety, than happiness.
Sin titulo
y cuando digo muerta por dentro
realmente digo entrañas en carne viva
digo culto al dolor silencioso…
All I Know is Love
All I know is love
I grew up, drinking it by the gallons.
In this time of a pandemic and loads of panic…
Memory Games
Yuh wake up screaming, parched lips bitter from the tail-end of another nightmare…
Isolation
I am comfortable in my own skin…
Shedding- the mitoXANDRIA
In order for any woman to grow she must shed every mindset that doesn’t fertilise her purpose…
Masking
Isolation 1
This piece is full of pathos, evoking pity and sadness…
I value myself
For so long physical and verbal abuse I endured…
If you’re anything like me
If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably known for a long long time that your mental landscape is very different…
Wrinkled Memory
There are pockets in my mind
that empty themselves
hold coins of memory?
Mental Health
After my mom died…
Depression
Stone-cold to the touch
Body like a slug, just drifting through life
Leaving behind a trail of darkness and pain
The Clean Up
The apartment will feel like you are being suffocated….
He is like Him
In his physique.
A body made beautiful now distorted
He folds over himself as if
To make up for his size he shrinks his impact
I, Atlas
I am Atlas and the burden of the world is my own. Suffocating under the weight of continents, the whisper of dreams, hopes and prayers that fill the air.
I lied to my therapist
Shit! Back at it again. You see, one thing those mental health gurus fail to tell you on instagram lives is how much relapse is a bitch.
Music for 1
The soca song “Lucille” by Jestura was the anthem for Shilva especially around Carnival season.
West Indian parenting style…
One of the participants was an American woman of Haitian descent who expressed her trouble dealing with depression due to the struggle of sharing mental and emotional concerns with her mother.