About

Try To MATTer….

is a vision for compassion, awareness, and education for people and their families who suffer with or are affected by mental illness and is also for those who have been affected by suicide.

Try To MATTer is powered by the Matthew Patrick Geary Trust whose mission is to benefit and create programs and events that increase awareness and support for mental illness and to combat the stigma facing it, as well as with the rising epidemic of suicide.

Try to MATTer is a play on my brother Matt’s name and its about the embodiment of his spirit. All that is human and flawed, beautiful and broken. I lost my 41-year old brother on January 29, 2012 to suicide.

Try to MATTer is about a way of being in the world. Trying to matter to yourself and to each other. Defining who you are, not letting others define you.