In this episode, Derek is joined by his VR workout friend, Chérie, and her son Anthony, as they both share their own different experiences with the same diagnosis. Anthony shares his experience as the oldest of Chérie's children in caring for his siblings during Chérie's early years with her mental health journey. Chérie accepts Anthony's recollection of experiences and his feelings about his experiences and Anthony shares empathy with his mother in a way that he, as an adult with Bipolar is more cognitively and emotionally familiar with. They dialogue throughout the episode and even ask each other questions to gain better understanding and offer compassion to each other - and the listeners and I get to experience the love they share for each other. Check out their podcast at Apple Podcasts or Spotify Podcasts among others.

If you live in New York or Pennsylvania and are interested in learning more about working with me in the context of mental health therapy, check out my profile at the Sage in Time website. Unfortunately, I am not able to accept any Managed Medicare or Medicaid, regardless of the branding.

I am a sex-positive AuDHD mental health counselor who specializes in griefwork and relationships, working within the AuDHD space, supporting those of diverse sexual orientations and genders, of those engaged in non-traditional relationship structures, and I offer services to individuals, couples, families, or other systems of multiple individuals.

A special thank you to Melissa Reagan for providing the voice talent over the episode theme music.

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