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Jaclyn Brown on The Light Beyond Abuse and Mental Illness

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This week, I sit down with Jaclyn Brown of Mental Health and Us, a podcast offering practical self-care and wellness tips to help other mental health sufferers and their loved ones cope.

Her podcast takes inspiration from her 20+ year battle with depression and anxiety, and her survival of an abusive childhood, to shine a positive light on a dark subject matter.

Topics up for discussion this week include:

how her podcast came from her journey with anxiety and depression
why she wanted to encourage more people to talk about their mental health
why she finds writing easier than podcasting if doing it herself
why being a solo podcaster made it really hard for her to get started
why she chooses anxiety as her niche, and how depression plays into that
how mental illness changes as your life changes
how her social anxiety has benefited from the pandemic lockdown
what are some of the challenges she's found as a mother to a child with anxiety issues during a pandemic
how she came to write Young Adult books
how her abusive childhood helped shape the characters in her early books
what she's doing different for her kids versus what she experienced as a kid
why she feels it's so important to acknowledge displays of emotion
why she wants her podcast to be a casual and lighter approach to mental health
why her mother is her hero

Join me for a chat about finding light in the darker tunnels that life can take you down.

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