THE BLOG.

For six years, Let’s Unpack It has shown up. In communities, classrooms, policy spaces, and alongside young people across the Caribbean. As we reflect on our journey and the impact of 2025, we celebrate youth voices, community-rooted action, and a growing movement committed to ending mental health stigma. This is our story of showing up, building together, and moving forward, into the community, with purpose in 2026.

By McKenzie Gooding   •  November 15, 2024 Team LUI with members of the UWI Cave Hill Chapter of Campus Crusade for Christ (CRU), November 15, 2024. All too often, there is a tendency to draw a firm line in the sand between our faith and what we know about mental health. Discussions of mental health, let alone mental illness, have long been considered taboo in the Caribbean, with poor mental health often being chalked up to some sort of spiritual disturbance that can (and sho

By McKenzie Gooding   • August 21, 2024 As an organization created by and for Caribbean youth, the team at Let’s Unpack It is all too familiar with the reality of living in a region constantly at the mercy of nature. Hurricanes, in particular, are part and parcel of life in the Caribbean, powerful, unforgiving natural disasters which devastate communities and even entire countries. For anyone paying attention, the name Beryl - in all its destructive glory - probably rings a

By McKenzie Gooding • May 23, 2023 Hey, friend. Quick question. Do you know the difference between mental health and mental illness?...