S2 E8 - Jessie Brar

06/11/2019 1h 9min
S2 E8 - Jessie Brar

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Episode Synopsis

In Season 2 Episode 8, Noyz & B Magic welcome the founder of The Mental Health Spotlight, Jessie Brar. In this episode, Jessie discusses her family's migration from Punjab to Tanzania to Canada, growing up in a single-parent household and being a mother figure for her younger siblings, her struggles with anxiety, depression, and alcoholism, the stigma around mental health and addictions in South Asian families, how she embraced and took ownership over her own story, the challenges and positives of working in the mental health field, creating The Mental Health Spotlight for others to share their voices, and so much more.

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