Featured Stories
Join us in honoring the brave individuals at the heart of NAMI Rochester’s community—the #IROCMentalHealth ambassadors. These remarkable people boldly share their personal journeys with mental health, offering hope and inspiration through their stories.
Amanda Soehner
Over time, I shoved a lot of the special parts of me down for fear of being too loud and standing out. The thing is though, you can’t shove down the things that make you, you. Thankfully, through therapy I was able to do the work. I have had the pleasure of rediscovering parts of me that I now love and appreciate. I was becoming stronger and beginning to live my life for me and not for what I thought I ‘should’ be doing.
Creator, Amanda Soehner Designs
Alexis Russell
My growth is in accepting that this healing journey is hard but possible. Often we sit in our trauma and don’t move. We’ve lived there so long that we start to believe it’s home because we think it’s comfortable and safe. My growth is in recognizing that it is not. Letting go of what we’ve been in for so long is hard but when we decide to let go and surrender to peace, we start to feel whole, loved, and no longer at war with ourselves and others. We start searching for a new home.
Writer, Founder of Inspiring Experiences, Creator of StoryCards
Jon Westfall
The first thing I tell people who are struggling is “There is ALWAYS hope” because there’s no more hopeless feeling in the world than to feel out of control of your own life. Where there is breath, there is hope and we DO recover. If recovery is possible for ME, it’s possible for anyone.
Executive Director of ROCovery Fitness
Leading the way for mental health awareness
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