"You're not as alone as you think you are," says award-winning author David A. Robertson, as he lays bare his journey with anxiety and depression in a new book.

Robertson, a Swampy Cree writer and novelist based in Winnipeg, compared his latest work All The Little Monsters: How I Learned to Live With Anxiety to a large group therapy session.

In writing about his own experience with mental illness, he invited readers to join him to embrace what is and to heal from what was.

In a conversation with C…