0:00 Intro

1:47 Taboo

4:57 Tipping Point

8:18 Hotline

16:16 Taking Time

19:30 Escape

21:36 Aftermath

27:12 Primary Step

29:40 Positive Change

We're with Mia Atoui for Episode 226 of The Beirut Banyan.

Click to watch:

https://youtu.be/Cx2pM8kPlcE

We discuss Embrace and the wider work of raising mental health awareness in Lebanon.

Our conversation includes confronting the stigma too often associated with mental health illness, grassroots level work at tacking previously taboo subjects and the inception of Embace's suicide prevention hotline (1564).

Mia Atoui is the cofounder and vice president of Embrace.

Check out their website: https://embracelebanon.org

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Music by Marc Codsi. Graphics by Sara Tarhini.