Alyssa

School and Community Presenter

Meet Alyssa

Kind, Aesthete, Passionate

Strengths:

Through her challenges, Aly has found strength by cultivating understanding and empathy for others. With kindness being her biggest strength, she sees and creates as much beauty in the world that she can. She takes every opportunity she can to remind people of how worthy and magical they are.

Presentation Topics:

OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder), damage caused by inaccurate representation, bullying, social anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, and the journey to self love.

3 ways to describe your talk:

  • Informative
  • Inspirational
  • Heartfelt

Presenters are chosen at random to allow for equitable participation in our program.

Aly is a Fashion Designer who’s always been passionate about self expression. Through her experience growing up with the underrepresentation of OCD as well as her experience with being bullied, she lived in a constant state of fight or flight. Battling with social anxiety and depression as a result, she fought to create a beautiful life for herself. She learnt step by step to love herself fully and rediscovered her inherent worthiness. She now uses her experiences to heal her inner child and help those who are struggling the way that she did. Knowing that self expression is the most beautiful thing, she strives for a world free of stigma, one full of understanding and acceptance. Her hope is to bring a voice to OCD, one that is free of misrepresentation.

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