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Hold on Tight: A Parent’s Journey Raising Children with Mental Illness with Jan Stewart
Episode 2062nd February 2023 • The Empowered in My Skin Podcast • Nkechi Nwafor-Robinson
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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/

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