ASHA BROMFIELD’S STORY

Actress (Riverdale) and Author of Hurricane Summer / “A WORK IN PROGRESS”

I think talking about my mental health journey was very freeing to me. I didn’t start out with the intention of writing a book that would have so many healing, deep, gut-wrenching soul searching messages – but it became that process and the truth just sort of came out of me. And when I say the truth, I mean emotions that I felt as a young girl, things that I didn’t realize I had suppressed and had went (sic) through, and just really facing it and it’s amazing that in so many ways it was cathartic just being able to share that, and I knew that by me being honest about it, other girls would relate to that, especially when we talk about trauma around sexuality, shame and guilt.

I actually started therapy a year and a half ago – it’s been very recent but it’s been incredible. Even in the short space of time, I have already seen the impacts of it. I’m still a newbie with my meditation, I could definitely be a lot stronger with my practice there – haven’t got the mediation thing down yet, but I like to say I do everything around it – so I do a lot of journaling, and a lot of letters to God, the universe and to my younger self, therapy, and I work with a lot of healers whether it’s channelers, tarot cards, so those type of things to me are my meditation because it connects me back to source, and that’s sort of my practice. But I’m still working on my meditation – TOMORROW!!!

For me, truly within my journey I’m learning is living your life to the fullest. There is infinite possibility available to all of us in every single moment and it’s not always easy to see that or feel that, I wake up in a grumpy mood most of the time, but praying for it, asking for it to be revealed to you, when you start to look at life that way, you realize how limitless you are and that you can do anything you want to do. As a matter of fact, you are actually here to do everything you want to do – it’s why we are here – we are supposed to do everything we want to do. And I think that so much of society teaches us to feel unworthy, to feel limited, to feel we are not good enough, and so we spend our lives thinking oh well, who am I to do this or that, but part of my career and the legacy I want to leave behind is to show people you can do anything because you are everything and it’s your birthright to have everything – do it all, taste it all, feel it all – that is the human experience. And so, I don’t look at it like how do I balance my life, I look at it like how do I give myself permission to do the things I want to do and not box myself in, because society loves to box in – not only humans but marginalize people of color. It’s like breaking out of the box and just living life. Whatever that means for you.