Tag: community

• These Systems Were Never Built for Us

  

  People like to say the system is broken. But the truth is a lot harder to sit with than that. Most of the time, the people deciding which programs receive funding have never worked in the field themselves. They have never held someone’s hand while they cried because they were banned from the one place…

  sarahrevie

  March 15, 2026

  Care Work, Eating Disorders, Harm Reduction, Mental Health, Social Services, System Burnout, Systems

  addictions, community, disability_access, eating_disorders, Harm Reduction, harm_reduction, healthcare, mental_health, mental_health_care, mental_health_care_access, system_change

• The Weight We Share

  

  To the burnt-out and the lost. To the ones who keep choosing care even when it breaks their hearts. To the ones who have held anger, guilt, and grief in the same breath and kept going anyway. To those who stay, even when it feels like the world has stopped listening. This is my love…

  sarahrevie

  March 8, 2026

  Care Work, Harm Reduction, Mental Health, Social Services, System Burnout

  burnout, community, community care, compassion, emotional labour, Harm Reduction, healing, healthcare, Mental Health, systems change, writing