❈ About us ❈

Free Your Mind is a wellness group that focuses on different ways of working around mental health issues, to gain some knowledge around different mental health issues, and to help bring some light to normalizing the topic of mental health.

Hi there and welcome to Free Your Mind. My name is Erica Streisslberger and I am the founder of Free Your Mind. I am a student at George Brown College in the Activation Coordinator/Gerontology program at the Waterfront campus. I found it interesting that as a student in the School of Health & Wellness and Health Services Management there were no mental health groups at my campus. I am very passionate about mental health as I myself struggle with anxiety and depression. When I was in my first year of school I had only wished that there was a group that could help me deal with my issues. That is what I intend to do with Free Your Mind, to help students to feel less alone and to let them know that what they say in the group stays in the group. Free Your Mind is completely confidential and safe. Also, with my experience, I can help give students tips and tricks and what helped me could help you. Our minds are powerful things that can cause good or harm. We need to find different ways of learning how to work with our minds for the good. As I went through school I had to find ways to work around what was going on in my mind and how I would push how I was feeling down and not coping with it. I had no other way because I didn't know how.

The philosophy behind Free Your Mind is for students and others to be able to feel safe and comfortable to share how they are feeling, to create connections with others and to learn from others about the way they are able to cope with their day. My goal is to make students feel that they are no longer alone and that they can share what is on their mind.