Episode #1: Validation

I am so humbled and grateful to have my extremely gifted, sassy and compassionate therapist, Claire D’Andrea on the show. Claire is a licensed clinical social worker who specializes in trauma, anxiety and addiction. We’re going to be talking about some misconceptions of mental illness, cutting edg…

My name is Haywood and I suffer from mental illness…I even wrote a book about it called Chasing Pleasure With Pain. I’ll be talking about my experiences, giving advice both to people like me and their loved ones. In a nutshell, I began suffering from bipolar as a teenager. Instead of medical help,…

This is the second part of my conversation with my mother and we discuss how my undiagnosed mental illnesses affected my adult life, what that looked like from a mother’s perspective and how we got to where we are today. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podca…