by Daisy Rosales | Aug 14, 2024 | Liberation psychology
When we cultivate mental health in community contexts, we bear witness to its ever-growing transformational potential. At an individual level, mental health offers not only a softening of the effects of pain and hardship, but also the experience of greater agency in...
by Daisy Rosales | Jul 3, 2024 | Storytelling and mental health
Stories are everywhere in the human experience. They help us remember the essence of who we are— our ancestry, family, origin story. They help us find coherence in our confusing, scattered, or disjointed realities. And they can offer a sense of agency when we tell...
by Daisy Rosales | Mar 20, 2024 | Acceptance and Commitment Training, Community stories and impact
“People tell us how bad it is to be married as a child, or to be treated the way we were treated. But we can’t change our past, what has already happened to us. Mental health has helped us think about today and tomorrow, and live life in a new way.” – Syedah I...
by Daisy Rosales | Mar 1, 2024 | Brio news
Five years ago, we launched Brio with a big dream to meaningfully contribute to improving mental health in communities facing adversity. The approach was inspired by conversations we had with community leaders in Latin America, all of whom shared the ways mental...
by Daisy Rosales | Nov 15, 2023 | Acceptance and Commitment Training, Liberation psychology, Storytelling and mental health
Mental health is a social good. It supports overall population health, strengthens community ties, and enables economic and social participation. Despite common cultural narratives about how mental health is an individual— or even private— matter, positive mental...
