*****SPECIAL EDITION***** In honor of This Is My Brave!

One in five American adults face mental health issues. But the conversations around mental health continue to carry shame as a stigma. Many people who deal with mental health challenges remain silent.

Well, over the next four weeks I’ve got four extraordinary people from This Is My Brave, the national nonprofit organization dedicated to ending the stigma surrounding mental illness through storytelling that are going to share amazing experiences for you to live and learn how to change your life for the better.

First up is Susie Burklew, a substance abuse counselor and the co-producer of a This Is My Brave event in Arlington, VA to tell us more about the show and her own experience with mental illness.