A Note Before We Start: This content touches on childhood abuse, suicide, and gun violence. These are sensitive topics so please honor yourself as you move forward.

💜🎙️In this week’s episode, Sally Edelstein shares her essay, “Finding Solace in an Unlikely Place,”  reflecting on her lifelong battle with depression and how she found the strength to live in an unexpected place.

During our conversation, Sally opened up about her personal experiences with trauma and how therapy has shaped her understanding of her mental health struggles. Despite the disconnect between her outward appearance and her internal struggles, Sally found strength in her ancestors and renewed self-love for herself by trusting her voice and creativity. Her experience highlights the burden of societal stigma for mental health sufferers.

We talked about the urgent need to end the stigmatization and the importance of listening to each other through genuine conversations about our mental health

Sally Edelstein is an award-winning collage artist and writer, based in Huntington, NY. She considers herself a visual archeologist digging deep into American mythology, excavating and examining the social fiction we and society have told ourselves over the past 70 years. A nationally exhibited artist, she has won awards from the Society of Three-Dimensional Illustrators, The Art Directors Club of N.Y., and the Society of Illustrators. As a writer, her essays have appeared in The Independent, The New York Daily News, Tablet, and Next Avenue among others.

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