N.S. news: Book collects wisdom of survivors [Video]

Eight years ago, Shauna Lilly lost her father to suicide and since then she’s devoted herself to mental health and self-care. Her advocacy led her to Gabby Scollard’s newest book project, which collects wisdom from people who have suffered great loss and found the power to keep going.

“Hopefully the readers will have a takeaway of doing an audit on their own life and realizing what’s really important and to move forward and live their best lives,” Lilly said.

Scollard, a Nova Scotia-based author, public speaker and mental health advocate, previously wrote “Why I Stay,” a book about depression and suicide depression, in 2022, pulling from her own experiences.

“I wrote (it) after struggling with depression myself and I wanted to help anyone who was in that bad head space or struggling with those thoughts and help pull them out in the way I pulled myself out of it with writing,” …