I am a person navigating late stage remission from psychotic syndrome with aspirations to become a Certified Peer Support Worker. Exercising, skateboarding, swimming, journaling, playing guitar, cooking nutritious meals, enjoying nature, ensuring quality sleep, and meditating are ways in which I maintain my remission as well as maintaining peer/family relationships and traditional mental health services. I have a long storied history of mental illness with 16 hospitalizations for acute psychosis, but I am grateful that it really is just a story and not who I really am. I have had triumphant moments in my life and I have also been humbled. It was not all bad and not all good. After dropping out of high school and midway between the 16 hospitalizations I endured, I graduated with a Bachelors of Arts in English with great praise, although my mental instability became unavoidable to notice as I tried to integrate into the professional world. I sidelined my ambitions instead to do the work of working on myself. That work eventually paid off and even after becoming treatment resistant, I am having a rare experience of late stage full remission from psychotic syndrome. My favorite expression is, "the day I take my luck for granted is the day my luck runs out..." I consider myself blessed and fortunate to still be here and each day is an invitation to be the best version of myself. My experience of being psychotic was often in an echo chamber without a specific modality to resolve my suffering for most of my life. Being left to my own devices as a matter of survival in the context of therapeutic approaches, I had the pleasure of getting to try out a lot of adjunct therapies on my own which sort of felt like being a detective trying to solve my own case. Necessity is the mother of invention, and being thrust into a position of ingenuity definitely prepared me to become a CPMC. These days I am a recipient of wrap around mental health services, I attend psychotherapy twice a week, and I am utilizing services to integrate into the workforce, hopefully as a peer support worker. I am grateful to be here. Thank you. Take care.