Welcome to Twisted Journeys
I started this site as a way to heal and help other people heal. I believe each one of us have our own Twizted Journey.
A little on my own Twizted Journey:
In 2021 my nephew decided his story didn't need to be written anymore. This was a devastating situation for myself and my family, our normal has changed forever. This situation made me start thinking about myself my past even my own son quite a bit because I myself and my son deal with addiction mental illness and have had thoughts of suicide. Unfortunately we live with a dark cloud hanging over us that it's hard to deal with especially with the stigma society puts on those with an addiction or those with a mental illness.
Usually it's easy for me to comfort someone and talk with them and help them through devastating situations in their own lives when it was time for me to help my own family though it was hard, one of the hardest things I had ever experienced before in my life. I reached out to the American foundation for suicide prevention because I didn't know where else to turn and through them I have learned more coping skills that I can use for myself and to help others.
In the last year my daughter and I have become advocates for AFSP and NAMI with the intention of adding Overdose Lifeline to our advocacy, because a few months after Jasons journey was cut short we lost my nephew Jake to fentanyl.
A group that we embrace as family helped us create "Jason's Journey" and we hosted our first suicide awareness/prevention event. We raised money to help my brother with funeral expenses. We vowed to keep Jasons journey going but needed to rethink the name we used because Jake was gone also and so many others in our community were grieving the loss of their own loved ones taken to soon.
This journey we were on together couldn't be in remembrance to only 1 lost soul , or 2 lost souls or even 5 lost souls... Everyone has a journey and every journey is twizted in it's own way... From the ashes of darkness, torment, death and despair Twizted Journeys rose to spread their wings and turn devastation into a message of hope. Twizted Journeys supports addition, mental Illness, overdose and also suicide awareness/prevention; we support 4 great causes rolled into 1. We try to bring awareness not only to our community but to anybody that we can reach at any and all events we participate in.
Twizted Journeys; together we intend to educate daily; Here you can find
Info on past events/Upcoming events
Links to related and mentioned websites
Our merchandise
A memorial page (You can add your loved ones to our list)
A safe place to read other people's Twizted Journeys and to share your own.
A place to turn if you or someone you know is in a suicide, abuse or mental health crisis.
; it's okay not to be okay ;
Here we hope to help break the stigma of addiction, abuse, mental illness, overdose and suicide. It's something we need to be able to speak freely on so people know that they can reach out of the darkness and know they are never alone.
