Areas that I show up in for my community,  is specifically in helping with their mental health. Specifically, I love working with youth on their mental health because growing up, I was actually raised by my nana because both of my parents were substance users.  So growing up as a child, I didn't really understand what substance use was. I was just like, "I'm a child. I'm cool. You should wanna raise me like, like, why don't you wanna raise me?" so growing up, I, I dealt with a lot of mental health issues and then when I became an adult, I realized like, "oh, substance use, that's a chemical imbalance. It's not as simple as let me go take care of my children today." and so with that journey of me healing and getting to know myself and my story more, I was like, "how many kids are out there who didn't come to this realization? Who still think it's their fault for what their parents did or didn't do?" Um, so I was like, you know, the cliche saying of "be the, the change that you want it to be" or be that person that you needed when you were younger, which is how I like to see it.

 So I do different workshops at high schools and colleges about mental health,  about how to be a good friend if someone shares that they're depressed, cuz that's something we don't talk about a lot.  So that's, that's my passion.  If I could quit my job tomorrow and just travel the world, talking to kids about their mental health and telling them that I'm someone who believes in them. That's what I would do.  So my motto for that is that "your circumstances don't hinder your future. They're just stepping stones to success to reveal how resilient you truly are."