A letter from our
FOUNDER & DIRECTOR

In 2019, I suffered a mental breakdown. I was caught in a minefield of panic attacks, anxiety, and depression resulting from a traumatic event that triggered a cascade of emotional timebombs that had laid dormant for decades.

There were times when I didn't know if I would make it through the day, and in that season, something was born inside my heart. I knew that if I felt this way, I wasn't alone. ⁠

And in the darkest, most painful moments of my life, SeekHer Foundation was born — a symbolic place for me to stand in solidarity with all the women who felt the weight of it all on their shoulders and came out on the other side with a renewed sense of hope.⁠

My own healing journey paved the way for how SeekHer was built — after parsing through decades of unprocessed emotions from buried childhood & intergenerational trauma, body image struggles, and the mounting pressures of caregiving for both my kids and parents. ⁠

And while I'm immensely grateful for how my privilege granted me access to care, it became abundantly clear that there was a gap in how our mainstream culture was talking about mental health.

What was often missing in the conversation was the fact that our state of mental health isn’t isolated to an individual. It’s how we experience our identities in relation to the people we’re in community with.

And women, in particular, have long been held back by a society that constantly defines their identities through unrealistic ideals and cultural expectations that have a significant impact on our well-being.

It's why I'm here to advocate for mental health alongside our community of allies and organizations, with the hopes of amplifying this message to more women —

You are not the embodiment of your pain. You are not defined by your struggles.

So here's to our collective healing & belonging, no matter who we are. Because when we own our stories, we reclaim what's always been ours.

— Dr. Monica Mo, Founder of SeekHer Foundation