Banff set to host its first-ever Mental Health Week
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Banff will be hosting its first-ever Mental Health Week, which aims to fight against the stigmatization of mental illnesses in the Bow Valley.
The town of Banff will be hosting its first-ever Mental Health Week, which aims to fight against the stigmatization of mental illnesses in the Bow Valley.
Makaylah Rogers struggled with their mental health soon after moving to Canmore from Australia in 2016.
“The mountains are some of the most beautiful things you can lay your eye upon and that gave me a lot of hope,” she said.” But it was quite isolating, it felt like well everything must be great because the mountains look so good,” said Rogers.
The excitement was quickly overshadowed by the percolating pain they were desperate to abandon over the ocean on the flight over, but it only grew more dire.
“I felt lonely. I was struggling with childhood trauma. I was struggling with suicidal ideation every day,” they said. ” I didn’t have anyone that I could talk to … I just felt completely empty like I didn’t have any substance or an identity.”
Rogers spent most of their first years in Canmore working remotely, alone in their apartment. They were seeing a therapist but untrusting and unknowing of where to turn to for community support. Makaylah decided to create their own safe space in an unlikely place: a donut shop.
“The circle of the donut feels very symbolic to me it feels like community it feels like coming together, and we are better when we are together,” they said. “It feels like wholeness from my healing journey from trauma, my coming out as non-binary my being able to be my full self,” said Rogers.
Rogers and their wife started Frankie D’s Donuts. The business rolls out more than just delicious treats but serves as a path to connect with other people through lived experience, bonding over donuts and discussions. Rogers is now helping to bridge the gap they once felt and so many others still feel in the Bow Valley.
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