Isabelle Daza

“You're not alone, and it's okay to not be okay sometimes.”

“If we just took the time and ask people how they felt, they'd be willing to share and they'd be willing to talk to you. Just ask one person. Make that connection. People need to be heard and maybe we can save a life.”

“Exercise is very much part of my life, But more than getting fit, I want to maintain my weight and be healthy.”

“I'm on this journey to raise a happy child that is able to cope, [is] resilient, and doesn't feel the pressure of social media.”

“Social media can lead to mental health issues, I'm not villainizing it because I think it has a lot of benefits, but, sometimes, when it takes over your life, you come out not knowing why you're feeling this emptiness and unhappiness.”

“Becoming a mother has really led me towards the path of advocating mental health because I see this generation, where we are constantly taking photos and taking videos, and we capture everything.”

“Mental illness, depression, and anxiety is amongst us… With social media, I'm not gonna say it's the most awful thing on Earth because social media and Instagram has helped us with a lot. But, what I want to say is, this is just a fraction of our reality.”

“If I didn't have my amazing friends, family, and support system to tell me that you're gonna get through this, I don't know where I would be.”

“I wasn't diagnosed with clinical depression, but I felt like I don't need to have gone through it to be sensitive to it.”

“I can't imagine being a teenage girl, growing up in this generation, looking up at influencers and bloggers, wanting that life, and then going home and feeling like 'I don't have it. Social media does that. It generates this jealousy and it generates this [mindset of] 'I'm not good enough,' 'I'm not as pretty,' 'I'm not as thin,' 'I'm not travelling as much,' and you have this anxiety.”

“I want to be a voice of my generation and to be heard that this is an epidemic.”

“I want to remove the stigma that mental illness, anxiety, depression is something that we need to be ashamed about.”

“Children don't do what you say. They do what you do.”

“Social media plays a vital role for most people these days as there is a struggle of wanting to share something special or keep things private.”

“Don't go broke trying to look rich.”