We explore the complicated nature of the decision to share or not share one's struggles with addiction, mental health, and self-awareness. If we choose to remain anonymous or keep quiet, we will avoid the judgment and stigma that often comes along with the topic of mental health and addiction. However, the cost to our community is great. If our friends, family, neighbors, and co-workers don't know about our experience with these sensitive personal struggles, how will they know who to reach out to if they too experience some of the same challenges? Not only does this perpetuate the sense of feeling alone that most people experience when struggling with mental health or addiction, but we also miss an opportunity to be of service to our community on a deeper level. Often, the best thing someone can do for an area in which they struggle is to help someone else with similar challenges. The other area involves an extremely high financial cost to our community. Insurance coverage is sparse at best. Regularly in the mental health and addiction industry, insurance companies blatantly contradict doctor's recommendations. For example, someone is ready to get off a drug and go to rehab. The doctor recommends 30 days of inpatient treatment, 1 year of outpatient treatment... the insurance says, we'll give you 2 weeks inpatient and 30 days of outpatient. The only reason that is possible is because most people that struggle with mental health or addiction and have a terrible experience getting insurance coverage, never tell anyone... they eat it, they pay it or go into debt. The only way we are going to influence changes in coverage insurance companies are required to offer is to speak up and speak out. We attempt to address some of these sensitive issues, offer people an opportunity to share their experience, strength and hope all while moving the conversation forward to normalize mental health and addiction.