Hi, I'm Chelsey
As a someone who has lived with severe mental health struggles all my life , I straight up got tired of having to seek emotional regulation tools in isolation, in clinical settings, in crisis, or in forgotten pamphlets stuffed at the bottom of my purse.
Mental health is way too important to be treated like an afterthought.
So, I've proudly made it my life's mission to integrate mental wellness in our collective daily life thru storytelling, social media content, and now: MÜDYZ
the Müdyz journey
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It started with sculptures
MÜDYZ originally began as a TikTok series of brain-shaped sculptures designed to spark conversations about mental health. Each day I sculpted an abstract brain to reflect my mood.
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Then Life threw a Curve Ball
While battling Thyroid Cancer in 2023 I didn't have the physical energy to sculpt, so I learned to illustrate on my iPad from bed instead.
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But wait...
The cartoon versions of my sculptures were cool enough to go on shirts. Of course, that didn't satisify me though. So I started the journey of figuring out how to use tech to make my mental health merch FUNCTIONAL.
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Tech-Enabled Wellness is the way!
3 years of experiments, hard lessons, and consumer feedback eventually led to our first tech-enabled products that connect people to mental wellness resources with a simple tap of their phone.
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HereWithU
Today, we're using our tech-merch sales to support the building of HereWithU, a FREE community-centered mental wellness platform designed to fulfill our mission of making support more accessible than ever before.
what makes us different
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Technology
We use a copyrighted methodology and a patent-pending technology system to connect everyday products to interactive mental wellness resources.
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Community-Centered
We believe mental wellness shouldn't live in isolation. Our work focuses on connection, peer support, and helping people feel less alone.
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Lived Experience
Everyone involved in building MÜDYZ has personal lived experience navigating mental health challenges, caregiving, recovery, or emotional wellness journeys of their own.
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centering your humanity
We're offering a decolonized perspective around mental health. We deeply understand that current societal structures and norms actively harm us emotionally. Treating emotional struggles as righteous responses to living in an isolating, exploitive world is at the core of everything we create.
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Daily Practice
Could you imagine never brushing your teeth and only tending to them when you go to the dentist? Or after something has gone wrong? That's how we collectivley treat mental health now: acknowledging it when it hurts. We hope our free resources, tech-products, & upcoming app helps people proactively and regularly engage with emotional wellness.
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Community Built
MÜDYZ doesn't rely on investor funding to exist. Grants, social media monetization, product sales, and an upcoming crowdfunding campaign are responsible for the funding and development of our HerewithU App & matching tech products. We also are putting together a Community Advisory Board to oversee major app developments and features to keep our resources free, safe, and ethically sound.
