
Personal Essays
First-person writing that explores depression, identity, and the realities of functioning in a high-pressure world. These essays move beyond simplified narratives, focusing instead on the contradictions, patterns, and lived nuances that often go unnamed in traditional mental health conversations.
Practical Resources
A curated set of frameworks, tools, and insights drawn from narrative therapy, behavioral health, and lived experience. These resources are designed to be usable in real life—within the constraints of work, caregiving, and everyday responsibility—not just in ideal conditions.
Stigma Reduction
Ongoing work to challenge reductive and often misleading narratives about depression. This includes expanding how mental health is discussed publicly, emphasizing context and complexity, and creating space for more honest, less stigmatized representations of lived experience.
Elsie talks with CBT Baltimore about her background in modeling, early depression, and how the beauty business grooms young women.
Elsie talks with American Express about how depression has helped her navigate workplaces, build lasting relationships, and share ideas.
Elsie adds her voice to the Deconstructing Stigma campaign at McClean Hospital, which has traveled the US and world with pop-up installations, companion literature and digital content that captures the complexity of living with a mood disorder.
Elsie is a guest contributor for the Personally Speaking blog series by Treatment Advocacy Center, which tackles issues having to do with serious mental illness.






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