I didn't write this book from the other side of healing. I wrote it from inside it.
Still Here: 365 Reasons to Keep Going is a daily companion for anyone who knows what it's like to perform okay when everything inside is anything but. Anxiety. Depression. The weight of keeping it together when you're barely keeping it together. One page a day. One affirmation. One reason to keep going.
Written from thirteen years of lived experience — not from someone who figured it out. From someone still in it.
On the days when getting out of bed felt impossible. When the anxiety would not let you breathe. When you were surrounded by people who loved you but still felt completely alone inside your own mind. When you did not know if things would ever get better. I needed someone to hand me one small reason to keep going. Just one. Just for today.
That is what Still Here: 365 Reasons to Keep Going is. A daily companion written from thirteen years of lived experience with anxiety, depression and panic attacks by someone who is still in it, still fighting, and still showing up anyway. One page a day. Each page closes with a daily affirmation you can carry into the rest of your day or take with you into tomorrow. No pressure. No perfection. Just you, showing up for yourself.
365 days. 365 reasons. Still here.
Ryan Abriel is an experienced digital and brand communications marketer in the sneaker and retail fashion industry, a basketball coach, photographer, and proud husband and father of two based in Oregon.
Since February 12, 2013, Ryan has lived with anxiety, depression and panic attacks, battling the invisible weight of fear, dread and the unknown while showing up every day for his family, his players and his career. He knows what it means to smile through the storm. To perform okay when everything inside is anything but. To be the anchor for everyone else while quietly fighting to keep his own head above water.
Still Here is the book he needed at his worst. He hopes it finds you before yours.