🎙️🕊️Come out this Saturday to support Dylan’s memory, and the memory of other kids like him: lost too soon 🪽The incredible courage of his family, friends, and families like his are what can ensure that this doesn’t happen to more of our kids in the future.
Dylan was the shining light in every room and space he entered, and he was so vitally important to all those who loved him, called him a friend, or who interacted with his outgoing personality.
We are raising funds for the Canadian Association for Mental Health, and encouraging an evening of events, food, music, and destigmatizing discussions on #suicide and #MentalHealth.
I’ll be there as Canadian Grit Media Co., interviewing people who wish to anonymously share (or otherwise) about Dylan’s life, life in general, or anything at all related to mental health, youth, and what we need to get done to end the silent suffering that is common to us all.
We do *not* not share in our individual triumphs, but in the knowledge of common suffering that is life— pushing us ever forward to grow, and ever-tempting to lull us into a sense of permanence and control.
In 100 years, over 7 billion people currently living will be gone… naturally or otherwise.
How long can we continue to wait to address these issues?
Everyone has or knows *at least one person* who benefits from human dialogue, empathy, and safe spaces where we can escape our normalized level of fight or flight these days.
Safe spaces where all people are welcome for their worth and birthright as human beings, and normalizing our emotions and spiritual callings to an unclear, yet common and connected truth *WE ALL biologically and scientifically share.*
There are no exceptions to mental health— it’s like physical health. It affects us all. The idea of pretending that having emotions and deep feelings is something belonging only to the realm of other people or hashtags is a cultural fabrication— to hide it instead of embracing our collective power.
Biology and survival drives us to *NEED* external connection, attunement, and attachment.
No exceptions.
Every single human being possesses the most basic human need to be held, seen, heard, and accepted by people who just listen without trying to fix. It’s Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.
Our human longing to just sit together is justified.
To be rested, to play music, and to live under the stars in wonder and awe of this unchosen voyage *WE ARE ALL ON* in this life is our BIRTHRIGHT. Everything else is a creation of the mind that we can dismantle with courage l.
Join us in Newmarket this Saturday as we join Dylan’s family and the Canadian Association of Mental Health to raise awareness and funds, this Saturday from 6pm-10pm.
This is the beginning of a really meaningful story, and Dylan is with us every step.
Why not join in and be part of what we’re becoming?
Canada 2.0.
#toronto #yorkregion #ontario #newmarket #georgina #mentalhealth #camh #stigma #youth #community #health #courage
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