Growing Upward: My Lifelong Journey with Mental Health

There are moments throughout our lives that define us all. Growing up in a normal home with what I assumed was a normal family with normal problems, I learned very quickly how to suppress my feelings and not be a burden to others. I was too young to know then that I was setting the table for the enemy to have a seat there. That set the path for moment after moment in my early years to let the enemy in.

Throughout my life, it has felt like one step forward, and two steps back. Many triumphs, ...