Melissa Silverstein-Nadeau Melissa Silverstein-Nadeau

Canvas Rebel Magazine

“What needs to change? For real change. Change that is a completely different direction than the path I was on. This was a message from the Universe, I could feel it. Suffering from chronic stress, burnout, grief, and skyrocketing levels of cortisol was not the way I wanted to live. I was given an opportunity, or as Gabby Bernstein says, ‘a detour in the right direction’”.

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Melissa Silverstein-Nadeau Melissa Silverstein-Nadeau

“Do it scared.”

My life’s mission is to work with human beings from age two to two hundred and share with them the joys of being alive. I want to help people see the beautiful aspects of our world that can be cruel and uninviting. I want to promote a business that will be an agency of change. I want to be and promote the change that I want to see in the world, in other human beings.

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It’s more than love…

“Every part of our relationship has changed; we found a deep connection that we did not realize was there because it was buried under stress; we couldn’t see it. “

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This is what I want to tell you.

You were everything I was looking for and nothing that I needed. That is how most toxic relationships begin.

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Just the facts

“…no person should ever feel the obligation of silence, or the push to pretend that ‘everything is ok’’

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C-PTSD

It’s a little bit of all of it permeating into your psyche all of the time, spread out over time.

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"Monsters"

“Leave the light on if you’re able, ‘cause we both know you’re unstable. Call a doctor, say a prayer…choose a God you think is there”.

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I lied.

I lied to myself, my family, co-workers and my closest friends.

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Dear Melissa,

I have decided to share what I wrote during the week of the breakdown.

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My Brain Broke...

… in September of 2023, I suffered a complete mental shutdown after I had the mother of all panic attacks.

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