"This Is My Brave - the Show" - April 2017 The Corridor, Iowa. Performance - bringing mental illness and mental health issues into the spotlight through creative expression live on stage. {thisismybrave.org} In this video, Amanda Fisher shares her essay, "More Than What Meets The Eye," about dealing with an eating disorder.
National sponsor: Alkermes {alkermes.com}
National sponsor: Talkspace - "Therapy for All" {talkspace.com}
National sponsor: Lundbeck {lundbeck.com/gl...}
Local Sponsors: Hospers, National Alliance of Mental Illness, Kirkwood Community College, Hill Bank and Trust Company, Mercy, University of Iowa Community Credit Union, TNT Video Services, Active Minds, MidWestOne Bank
Produced by Brook Easton and Lisa Baum
Special Thanks to Angie Ziesman Weiler and Julie Prasil
April 22, 2017
Kirkwood Community College
This Is My Brave, Inc., a 501(c)3 non-profit organization (thisismybrave.org) is the leading platform for individuals to share their stories of living successful lives despite a diagnosis of a mental health disorder through artistic expression (spoken word poetry, original music and essay readings) on stage in front of a live audience. We're opening up the conversation about mental health disorders in communities all across the country and beyond via our KZfaq channel.
We're shining a light on mental illness because it has been in the dark too long. We're ending mental illness stigma, one story at a time.
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