Advocate and now author Belan Tsagaye hopes her personal poetry will help others facing struggles like hers.
Tsagaye has been an advocate for better mental health supports for teens for several years already, and feels her personal experience could be a wake-up call about what many young adults are dealing with.
Poetry was her outlet, one that she has long enjoyed but rarely shared, and she challenged herself to a marathon of expression. She writes about growing up the daughter of a single, newcomer mother, and processing the loss of two friends to teen suicide. It’s here where she mentions her friendThis advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
“I think back to my younger self and the person I needed when I was younger, and the information that I wish I had,” she said.
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