I remember going back to Hampton University for my first homecoming as an Alumna in 2016. I remember touching down at the Virginia Beach airport and attempting to hype myself up by saying, “you MUST have fun this weekend. You’ve gotta make it fun,”. This was my first trip since graduating and Homecoming has always been the highlight of Fall but unfortunately, it didn’t feel special this time.

“Wi likkle but wi tallawah!”, a famous Jamaican saying that means so much to me. Tallawah is a Jamaican patois word that means fearless, strong, strong-willed, never to be underestimated.

"As a child of working professionals, mental health often was not discussed. No matter how you felt about anything, life had to keep moving. That meant regardless of what happened today, school (and work for my parents) would be waiting for us in the morning. I can't even remember the first time I heard the term, “mental health.” The earliest memory I can recall was in high school when one of my teachers took a “mental health day.” “People can do that?” I thought to myself.

Mental health for me didn’t become “important” or even really understood until I graduated high school and sh*t hit the fan.

Camryn, a Spelman grad and youtuber visits Evolving Still’s guest post to share her journey with mental health. She talks about her first experience with mental health and gives us tips on how to stay mentally healthy. She even shares a great app that she uses to practice self care!