Find Your Anchor

Find Your Anchor (FYA) is the epitome of people helping people.

We believe there’s power in showing people that strangers all around the world care about them.

FYA was created in direct response to so many mental health organizations being sterile, corporate, and cold. In her darkest moments, FYA founder Ali Borowsky didn’t want a white hospital brochure with a number to call. She wanted connection. She wanted to be seen.

For those contemplating suicide, there is an overwhelming sense of loneliness, abandonment, despair, and hopelessness. Ali’s core belief in the height of her darkness was that no one would care. She couldn’t feel the love and support she was surrounded by and didn’t think anyone would even notice if she were gone. So when creating Find Your Anchor, she thought that if she could create something that showed you that a stranger cares about you, then maybe it wouldn’t be so hard to believe that your friends and family do as well. She wanted her resource to feel like a gift from a friend.

At the heart of Find Your Anchor’s mission is a small blue box. Often referred to as a “mental health first aid kit,” each box is packed with good vibes and materials designed to inspire, soothe, and offer support. Not only do our boxes help save lives, but they embody our values: creativity, the power of the little things, and the strength of community in mental health work.

This idea of helping people you may never even meet has turned into 102,000+ Find Your Anchor boxes launched into the world for people struggling.

Each box is a tangible resource designed to be carried, explored, shared, and relaunched; because in a digital age, we benefit from having something to hold onto - both literally and figuratively.

Each Find Your Anchor box is an example of people helping people - communities helping their own. 

And each one represents a friend you may never meet, but one who loves you all the same.