Recovery Diaries

06/03/2026

🎬 Join us this Sunday at 7 PM EST for a special virtual screening of *Recovery Diaries* on YouTube Live.

From anywhere in the world, you can join the watch party with just one click. The 80-minute film features powerful stories of mental health, recovery, resilience, and hope.

Following the screening, stay for a live talkback with filmmaker Glenn Holsten and Recovery Diaries Executive Director Gabriel Nathan as they discuss the films, mental health storytelling, and the impact of sharing lived experiences.

Please make sure you click the link in our bio to get your ticket and the Yotube Live link!

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06/02/2026

NEW EPISODE! Kayla Ackelson, a writer, artist, and creator with an OCD brain talks about her recovery. with our Executive DIrector

Download wherever you get your podcasts, or check out the link on our website!

06/02/2026

This is community-powered storytelling. Join us 🤍

Please consider supporting Recovery Diaries, a non-profit mental health storytelling organization, with a sustaining tax deductible gift.

06/01/2026

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍⚧️

This month, we celebrate the strength, joy, resilience, and stories of the LGBTQIA+ community. Every story deserves to be heard, and every voice matters.

Looking to connect with real stories of recovery, hope, and lived experience? Click the link in our bio to explore LGBTQIA+ stories from people sharing their journeys in their own words. ❤️

06/01/2026

Every story shared has the power to reach someone who feels alone.

At Recovery Diaries, we share personal essays, documentary films, and podcasts to highlight mental health, recovery, resilience, and hope. Our goal is to remind people they are not alone and that recovery can happen.

We’re aiming to raise $100,000 so we can keep sharing these stories, support our contributors, and offer free mental health resources to people everywhere.

If Recovery Diaries has helped, inspired, or taught you, please think about donating or sharing this post. Every bit of support matters.

https://recoverydiaries.org/donate/

05/31/2026

Help us amplify voices that deserve to be heard 🎤

Please consider supporting Recovery Diaries, a non-profit mental health storytelling organization, with a sustaining tax deductible gift.

05/30/2026

🦸‍♂️ What if the thing you survived became your superpower?

On the latest episode of Recovery Diaries In Depth, Nick Emeigh—better known as NAMI Man—shares the story behind the mask. From relentless bullying, suicidal thoughts, an eating disorder, addiction, psychosis, trauma, and grief, Nick's path to recovery was anything but easy. Today, he uses his lived experience to fight stigma, spread hope, and remind others that recovery is possible.

🎧 Listen now and hear how one man turned pain into purpose!

https://recoverydiaries.org/nami-bucks/

05/29/2026

We’re building something bigger than ever before—and we need you with us 🚀

Please consider supporting Recovery Diaries, a non-profit mental health storytelling organization, with a sustaining tax deductible gift.

05/29/2026

Navy veteran Taylor Grieger turned one of the hardest chapters of his life into a mission to help other veterans heal 🌊⚓️

After struggling with PTSD and surviving a su***de attempt, Taylor found purpose through sailing — and now helps veterans and first responders through Skeleton Crew Adventures.

Our latest Recovery Diaries feature, Tackling PTSD on the High Seas, follows his journey from survival to advocacy!

https://recoverydiaries.org/navy-veterans-mental-health/

05/27/2026

Your brain isn’t supposed to feel like a war zone 24/7 🫀

In this episode of Recovery Diaries In Depth, artist + writer Kayla Ackelson opens up about living with OCD, anxiety, intrusive thoughts, and the exhausting cycle of checking, clinging, overthinking, and trying to stay safe with our Executive Director

https://recoverydiaries.org/anxiety-ocd-brain/