Today, I get to again share my wonderful dad with you all. Today, in the second of the two-part series, we talk about how he navigated my learning disability as a parent and then how he went on to continue that same approach of loving presence throughout my decade-long struggle with suicidality and serious mental illness. To listen to the first episode about his family history with mental illness and life with a mother (my grandmother) with bipolar disorder, head here.
To me, my father is exactly that — my dad. He is the man who taught me to love and persevere in the great outdoors no matter the weather and endowed me with a passion for music as well as a deep respect for its power in healing and building community. He is also the best coffee cake baker, French braider, and handyman I know. And above all, he is the role model I look to when ‘I think of kind curiosity and how to use it as I move through the world.
In addition to being all of those incredible things, professionally, he i…
Listen to this episode with a 7-day free trial
Subscribe to the healing lab to listen to this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.
