Carry the Line is Live

I want to talk to you directly for a minute — not as a founder, not as a clinician, but as someone who has sat in the same silence most of you have sat in.

You’re here on this Patreon because at some point, something we said or did resonated with you. Maybe it was a Thursday night meeting where you finally heard someone say the thing you’d been carrying alone. Maybe it was an episode of the podcast. Maybe it was just knowing this community existed when you needed it to. Today, I launched Carry the Line on Fund the First. It’s a campaign to raise $100,000 to build and sustain everything we’re doing — the therapy scholarships, the department training, Badge & Bone, the 24/7 peer support network, the podcast, the care packages, the conferences, all of it. Everything that should have existed for us years ago. I’m not here to ask you to donate. You already support this mission by being here, and that has never been lost on me.

What I’m asking is simple: if Badges & Breakthroughs has positively affected your life in any way — if a Thursday night meeting kept you from going to a dark place, if a conversation with someone on this team reminded you that you’re not broken, if even one moment with this community made the weight a little lighter — share this campaign. Share it on your Facebook. Text it to someone. Post it on your story. Send it to the one person you know who’s still carrying it alone and won’t ask for help. You don’t have to say anything profound. Just share the link. The right person will see it at the right time — and that’s how this works. That’s how it’s always worked. One person reaching one person.

https://fundthefirst.com/campaign/carry-the-line-fhp6n7

Thank you for being part of this. Thank you for trusting us. And thank you for helping me carry the line.

— Dylan