The much-talked-about 'Breaking the Silence: Our Stories of Healing and Hope' is being published and available to purchase, December 1st. Pre-ordering information will be available in the coming days.

The book will be available from local businesses and online.

The stories are from people who live in South East Saskatchewan including Weyburn and Estevan.

More information about the book, authored by Weyburn residents, can be found here.

"It will be available for December 1st, and we will be advising people very shortly how they can pre-order. And when it's available, it will be available on Amazon.ca as well as some local businesses, and that will be announced later," said Weyburn's Ramona Iida, Co-Author, Breaking the Silence.

The aim of the book is to help people struggling with mental health issues but also to raise awareness.

"We're hoping to get the governments attention as well to say that there is a need for more funding and support from the government in these areas in our health system."

Iida also said the book adds to the resources available on Mental Health as people talk in the book, about how they found help in their struggles.

There is a Facebook group page which goes with the book which can be found here.

Darren Neuberger, Geoff Brown worked on the book with Iida and they decided that all proceeds from the book should go to Dominic Place in Weyburn, a 14-unit rental housing project designed to support residents with different needs including Mental Health and addictions. More information on Dominic Place can be found here.

Weyburn's Richy Roy who recently published his own book, helped the trio publish 'Breaking the Silence.'

The cover of the book was created by a Weyburn Artist.

"They first asked me probably late winter of last year," said Chris Borshowa, Fine art/Conceptual Photographer, Phantasma Photography.

"It kind of came to me really quickly while they were telling me about the concept of the book. Theres a lot of turbulence and sharp edges in the photo so i wanted that to be a really prominent feature, because those are the things that personally I would associate with mental illness."

"It was a really fun project and they told me I could have complete creative freedom and we would go from there," explained Borshowa

"It was easy for me to put this on a personal but at the same time to have it be acceptable to everybody, it was really cool."

There will be a launch party for the book, in Weyburn in the coming months.