Existence Is Enough

I don’t think I was prepared for how emotional it would be to watch people cross the finish line today.

Because it felt like every person crossing that line was fighting for someone who may not have the strength to fight alone right now.

For the person who is tired.
For the person who is struggling to hold on.
For the person who needs someone else to carry hope for them for a little while.
For the person we wish was still here.

With every step, it felt like we were saying: we’ll fight for you, too.

We’ll keep showing up. We’ll keep talking about su***de. We’ll keep reminding people that they don’t have to carry the weight of staying alive alone.

Today, we crossed the finish line together. 🤍

There are some people who come alongside a dream and help carry it further than you ever could alone. 🤍

Monica has been my right-hand gal in Atlantic Canada for years now, helping take this little dream and build a presence for EIE across the Maritimes. She has believed in the work, shown up again and again, and brought her whole family along for the journey.

So much of what EIE has been able to build here has her fingerprints on it.

As we continue fundraising to become ASIST facilitators together, we have an even bigger dream for what su***de prevention, education, and community support could look like across Atlantic Canada.

Standing beside her today at Steps for Su***de Prevention feels really special. This event represents years of showing up, building community, having hard conversations, and believing that this work matters.

There is still so much we want to build here in the Maritimes, and I’m incredibly grateful I get to build this part of the dream with you, Mon. 🤍

Atlantic Canada, we’re just getting started.

presence > performance
presence > perfection
presence > people-pleasing

In a world that demands performance, perfection and people-pleasing, simply be present.

With yourself and with others.

It’s incredible the space you can hold by simply being present.

Your presence can do so much for yourself and for others - you don’t have to DO or BE anything but present.

Your existence is enough, my friend✨

Five years ago, I needed somewhere to put the things I didn’t know how to carry.

I never imagined what would come from it.

This is the story of Existence Is Enough.💙

THE COLOURING BOOK IS LIVE ON AMAZON✨

Hope Is Alive Because You Are: A Colouring Book That Is Good For Your Mental Health Hope Is Alive Because You Are A Colouring Book That Is Good for Your Mental Health Hope Is Alive Because You Are is more than a colouring book. It is an invitation to slow down, take a breath, and make a little space for yourself. Created by Existence Is Enough Association, this book pairs thoug...

Hope Is Alive Because You Are Hope Is Alive Because You Are A Colouring Book That Is Good for Your Mental Health Hope Is Alive Because You Are is more than a colouring book. It is an invitation to slow down, take a breath, and make a little space for yourself. Created by Existence Is Enough Association, this book pairs thoughtfu...

The cat’s out of the bag… we released a mental health colouring book!

Introducing Hope Is Alive Because You Are: A Colouring Book That’s Good for Your Mental Health🤍

This isn’t a colouring book about fixing yourself.

It’s a place to slow down. To create. To breathe. To spend a little time with words you might need to hear.

Inside, you’ll find colouring pages paired with reminders of hope, encouragement, and the simple truth at the heart of everything we do:

Your existence alone is enough to make this world better.

And there’s no right way to engage with this book.

Colour every page.
Colour one.

Stay inside the lines.
Colour outside of them.

Finish a page.
Leave it unfinished.

Come back to the same words over and over again if they’re the ones you need.

This book isn’t asking anything from you.

It’s simply here for you.

Because mental health support can look like a lot of different things, and sometimes, it can look like sitting down with some pencil crayons and giving your mind somewhere gentle to land.

Hope is alive because you are.

And we hope these pages remind you of that. 🤍

Yesterday was World Su***de Prevention Day.
Our feeds were filled with reasons to stay.

Reminders that you are loved. Stories of hope. Words for the person who needed to hear them.

All of those things are needed. They are good. They are important. And we support them.

AND the conversation needs to continue.

Because when an awareness day becomes the day after, the things we carry don’t disappear with the date on the calendar.

The grief may still hurt just as deeply.

The loneliness may still feel just as heavy.

The circumstances that felt impossible yesterday may still be waiting for you this morning.

And sometimes, hope still feels very far away.
That is why this conversation cannot belong to just one day.

It belongs in all the days that follow.

In the quiet mornings.

In the middle of ordinary weeks.

In the moments when someone finally finds the courage to say, “I’m not okay.”

In the conversations where we sit beside someone without needing to have all the right words.

In learning how to notice, how to ask, how to listen, and how to stay.

World Su***de Prevention Day gives us an important moment to bring su***de into the light.

But the people behind this conversation are living their stories every day of the year.

And we want to be here for those days, too.
At Existence Is Enough Association, we are here 365 days a year — continuing to talk, continuing to listen, continuing to learn, and continuing to make space for the conversations that can be so difficult to have.

Today, we keep making space for the conversation.

Tomorrow, we will too.

Because your life matters on World Su***de Prevention Day.

And it matters just as much on every other day of the year.

🫶🏻💙

Today seems like the perfect day to remind you that I would notice if you weren't here💙🫶🏻

Photo // Miramichi Counselling Centre