Here's the link to Michelle's show notes page with interview highlights, quotes, and links to her website and social media.   Michelle Dickinson grew up with a bipolar mother. Out of that experience she wrote a powerful book, Breaking Into My Life: Growing Up with a Bipolar Parent and My Battle to Reclaim Myself. The book took four years to write. Her story shares the struggles and what she learned from it. She found a writing coach to help her make the story the best it could be. In this interview we talk about her experience with her mother, having a parent who is bipolar, why she wrote the book, her experience with the writing coach, and more. Michelle loves talking to student about the challenges of mental illness, knowing that some of them may have the same struggles. Her goal is to raise awareness and compassion for those struggling with mental illness along with those who care for them, so that more people get the treatment and help they need and deserve.