Episode 206

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2nd Feb 2023

Hold on Tight: A Parent’s Journey Raising Children with Mental Illness with Jan Stewart

Our next guest  is a highly regarded mental health governance expert, advocate, author, hope ambassador, and parent of two (now grown) children with multiple, complex mental health disorders. She has spent her career on Wall Street and Bay Street and sat on a number of Boards and Advisory Councils in both Canada and the US. She was formerly Vice Chair at CAMH and  is currently the chair at Kerry’s Place Autism Services, the largest autism services provider in Canada,. 

Her brutally honest memoir Hold on Tight: A Parent’s Journey Raising Children with Mental Illness describes her emotional roller coaster story parenting two children with multiple mental health disorders. Her mission is to inspire parents to persevere, as well as to better educate their families, friends, health care professionals, educators and employers.

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Book recommendation: "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

Website: http://www.janstewartauthor.com/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/janstewartauthor/

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The Empowered in My Skin Podcast
A podcast designed to help humans everywhere think in ways that is empowering.
This Podcast is all about helping humans think in ways that is empowering. Empowered humans, empower humans and our goal at Empowered in My Skin is to help develop one billion humans who are lead dominos for empowerment. Regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, etc., everyone deserves to be empowered in the skin that they are in.

Empowered humans are thriving humans. It is our birthright to thrive. When we own our thrive, we are operating from a position of empowerment, and celebrating life in the present moment without fear. It is human nature to feel uncertain, but why does it have to take us away from our thrive, our creativity, and throw us off balance? 

If we can recognize that being empowered is us choosing to accept all that is, then we have the ability to step into clarity and live in the present moment. Our "now" is all that we have and where our infinite empowered energy resides. 

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