Potential trigger warning: I do briefly share my experience with suicidal thoughts. If that is something you are triggered by, please skip this episode.

Hi everyone! I am so excited to have you start this journey with me! I felt that sharing a bit of my mental health and mental illness story would be the appropriate way to kick off the podcast. This new journey is a little out of my comfort zone, but I hope to be able to share more and open up more in future episodes. This podcast is going to be messy, like my life, but I'm glad your here and open to the journey! Thank you for wanting to be a part of this mental illness conversation. It is important to break the stigma surrounding mental illness and I think we can do that together. In this episode, I also offer some things I've tried to battle my depression. I'm not a doctor so I don't have a bunch of medical answers, but I have my experiences and what I've tried and hopefully there is something from those that can help you too. :)

This is a prerecorded episode.

-Elise