
Shattering Stigmas: When Grief Meets Courage by Sierra
For today’s Shattering Stigmas post, I have my friend Sierra sharing a post about grief, depression and courage. This is a great post and I hope you all enjoy it. I hope you also check out Shattering Stigmas co-hosts, Shannon, Mari and Taylor’s blogs as they’re sharing amazing posts to help shatter stigma too. CW/TW: Depression, mention of suicide, mention of self-harm (not done) Our culture has an intriguing obsession with the concept of courage. I, on the other hand, never have. It always bothered me growing up that the heroes of our favorite stories had to be courageous in order to actually be the hero. Harry had to be a Gryffindor, defined by his bravery, in order to take down Voldemort. Tris had to join the reckless, brave kids of Dauntless to forge a new path for herself. And Katniss had to literally stick her neck out to take her […]