May is Mental Health Awareness month and we are joined by Dr. Julie Shannon, Stephen F. Austin, a speaker, writer and podcaster. Julie focuses on practical compassion in dealing with life’s realities. She discusses her journey with infertility and how the celebration of motherhood and Mother’s Day may be painful to those who are “involuntarily childless.” Julie also discusses the “storms of life” both literally and figuratively through her own personal experience with a tornado devastating her home. She talks about how to be a builder, assess true damage and how to look to new opportunities that life brings along

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Find more mental health resources, Behind Happy Faces and Behind Happy Faces: Navigating Stress and Uncertainty on Leaddder.org.