Jaclyn Brown on The Light Beyond Abuse and Mental Illness

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 depressionwhy she wanted to encourage more people to talk about their mental healthwhy she finds writing easier than podcasting if doing it herselfwhy being a solo podcaster made it really hard for her to get startedwhy she chooses anxiety as her niche, and how depression plays into that how mental illness changes as your life changeshow her social anxiety has benefited from the pandemic lockdownwhat 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 bookshow 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 kidwhy she feels it's so important to acknowledge displays of emotionwhy she wants her podcast to be a casual and lighter approach to mental healthwhy her mother is her hero 

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

Connect with Jaclyn:

Mental Health and Us podcastA Girl and a Book

Contact me: danny@podcasterstories.com

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