Glennon Doyle Melton is the author of New York Times bestselling book entitled Carry on, Warrior.  she is the founder of www.momastery.com.  Glennon believes that life is composed of both the beautiful and the brutal, coining the term "brutiful".  She writes about the "brutiful" she finds in love, marriage, motherhood, faith, addiction and recovery.  You can find this Ted talk on utube entitled "Lessons from the Mental Hospital".

We also shared some information from the introduction to the 2010 publication Healthy Minds, Healthy People, a ten year plan to address mental health and subtance use in British Columbia.

Mental health is essential to physical health, personal well being, and positive family and interpersonal relationships.  The World Health Organization describes mental health as a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, copes with the normal stresses of life, works productively and contributes to his or her communities.  Good mental health is much more than the absence of mental illness - it enables people to experience life as meaningful and to be creative, productive members of society.