Hello, my name is Sheridan Taylor. I’m a combat veteran, former corrections officer, and suicide survivor. I write and speak about mental health and addiction, the stigma of mental illness, and how to reduce the harm they do to us as individuals and as a society. I work to help the addicted and mentally ill, the victims of our society’s myths and misunderstandings. As an Indigenous person who has been battling mental health issues for decades, I am invested in your success.

I was dependent on medication to maintain mental stability for years and never knew a night without fear. I want you to have something else. To sleep without nightmares and wake without loneliness. As someone who’s undergone most forms of treatment, with mentorship in Indigenous Healing ceremony, I speak from a place of knowledge and empathy, as well as authority. I want to show you the paths there are to a life of fulfillment, contentment, even joy. I want to show you how to have the life you deserve!

I grew up in the 1970s, the son of Metis parents, in various small towns across north-eastern Alberta. I learned how to fit in and not to get attached. I learned following your passion might not be the wisest financial decision, and poverty crushes any fulfillment love of occupation might bring. I enlisted anyway. Never regretted a day. I miss it terribly. I learned nothing is more important than having someone to love, no matter how crazy they make you. A lesson that served me well in my first marriage. I met her when she was seventeen and me eighteen. Our marriage lasted twenty-three years until her death. It serves me today with my marriage and our two sons.