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What we’re about

Welcome! The Yarrow Collective is a group of people who have experienced psychiatric diagnosis, suicidality, trauma, extreme emotional distress, addiction, recovery, discrimination, and more.

We are people who have found beauty in our sadness,
who have found trap doors at “rock bottom,”
who have broken our hearts on the wind and found our names within,
who have nightmares about mental hospitals,
who kinda-sorta-sometimes liked therapy and medication,
who found community in rites of passage,
who needed to define our stories in our own terms,
who realized we were the experts of our own experience,
who trouble linear timelines of healing,
who sometimes are still really struggling, and
who dream of alternatives.

Some of us reject labels like “mental illness,” “diagnosis,” and “recovery,” while others of us identify with those words as useful and meaningful to our stories.

The Yarrow Collective is borne out of a need for alternatives, a need for community, and a need to reclaim our stories in the ways that are meaningful to us.

All that to say, here at the Yarrow Collective, we’ve “been there,” and we’re here to envision & cultivate what healing, support, and empowerment can look like through alternative options to the current conventional system.
If you resonate with these experiences, join us at any of our events and gatherings!

**Please note this group is not private, meaning being a "member" of the group and your RSVPs may be visible to the wider public. Check out this page for more information on changing your own privacy settings on your MeetUp account. We do not require RSVPs to attend any of our groups, so you are more than welcome to peruse our page & get the information you need to show up confidentially. To give us anonymous feedback, check out this form.

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