LIVING LEGACY PODCAST EPISODE 44 Rachel Steinman is a mother, wife, teacher, podcaster, and mental health advocate. She’s the half-sister and step-daughter of parents on their third marriages and a third divorce. She experienced generations of mental illness with four suicides in her family, her mom being bipolar, and both of her grandparents dying by suicide.
Rachel’s beloved grandfather jumped to his death. She later found his incomplete manuscript revealing dark family secrets. She decided to become his ghostwriter and ended up rewriting his story and realizing that she had a story as well to tell with understanding generational traumas and forgiving her bipolar mom.
With a burning desire to change the legacy, her daughters would genetically inherit, Rachel began to soul search and research. Rachel started Dear Family, the Podcast because she realized every family has someone dealing with some form of mental illness and by sharing her story, she inspires others to come forward and share theirs. She interviews and writes essays with some short solo episodes.
Rachel is certified through NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness), and has the honor and pleasure of going into high schools and middle schools and even speaking to families. She teaches students and staff and families to identify warning signs and offer free resources. It’s a free organization that started off as grassroots and is now national.
She is not a therapist but a mental health advocate. She is a true believer that we are only as sick as our secrets and love is the best medicine. She’s one of the happiest, most grounded, and mentally healthy people we would have the pleasure of knowing. Today we exchange inspiring personal stories of overcoming obstacles to find mental wellness worth healing from. We’re reducing the stigma and silencing the shame.
Connect with Rachel:
Website:https://writenowrachel.com/
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LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-steinman-794846151/
Press:http://voyagela.com/interview/meet-rachel-steinman-dear-family-podcast/
Email:writenowrachel@gmail.comNational Alliance on Mental Illness http://www.nami.org/
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