Building a Community for Grief and the New Normal with Vivian...

Building a Community for Grief and the New Normal with Vivian Nunez

To learn more about Too Damn Young and Vivian’s mission, check out @2damnyoung.

“I lost my mom when I was 10, and I lost my grandma when I was 21. I realized through therapy that I had anxiety and depression. I try to humanize depression and anxiety a bit by sharing my own story,” says Vivian Nunez (@vivnunez). She is the founder of Too Damn Young (@2damnyoung), a community with the sole purpose of letting any grieving teenager know they are not alone.

“I don’t think there’s ever a moment where you are done with grief, and I’ve always described it this way: Grief is a thing that you learn to walk alongside of, you never leave it behind. But I remember my mom and my grandma now, and I smile.

Writing is a big coping mechanism for me, and it’s a counterbalance. My captions are really long and often heavy in terms of what they’re talking about, but my pictures are really pretty. They remind me how there’s still good in the world, and there are still pretty things in the world even if the day itself was a little bit heavier.”

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