Henry and Joel discuss lessons from lived experience with mental health distress, including: lessons from trauma, isolation, loneliness, marginalization, existential crisis, and how mental health distress may be a calling to become a healer leader and teacher in community. Extracting lessons and asking the 'why' slowly begins to uncover answers, reveals meaning and purpose, calls us to understanding and wisdom of life's deeper questions. There, passions reveal themselves, including for Joel poetry, spirituality and mysticism. For Joel these interests formed the basis of Education Training Center, Joel's nonprofit organization, to address areas of need for individuals marginalized by mental health, trauma, and psychological distress without distinction to cause.
Originally recorded for Amber Light International's Alchemical Dialogues Podcast with Henry Cretella, it is slightly edited in version.
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