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We spotlight a group in Ontario, Canada, is preparing to open Eli’s Place, a farm-based residential treatment program for young adults struggling with mental illness. It will be the first program of its kind in Canada. Co-founders David and Deborah Cooper were inspired to create Eli’s Place in memory of their son, Eli, whom they lost to suicide.

The magazine “...seeks to fill the gap in the literary landscape of young people seeking to express their struggle with mental illness and trauma creatively but without the need to use traditional literary verbiage… Whether free falling through psychosis, or bedridden in a state of depression, we know what it feels like to be living life in a state of limbo. We want to hear the messy truth.”

Recently, our Fellside Skills Group completed a deeply moving series of life-story sharing sessions. Participants spoke openly—some about mental health and recovery, others with humor or reflection. All stories were real. All mattered.