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Aspects
In this podcast you will meet people with lived experience that together with world leading experts from around the world, talk about how we can meet life's different challenges. We look stigma right in the eyes and talk about the topics most of us just think about. Everything from mental health conditions, to the mysteries of our mind to the sometimes all consuming consequences of the ordinary challenges of life, like grief, depression, anxiety and many more.
In each episode you can learn from engaged guests that bring with them the combination of real life experience combined with the latest insights and professional experience. The podcast is brought to you from the team behind The Life Experience Library - that today is the world’s largest mental health resource. The library consists of hundreds of categorized in-depth video interviews of people from around the world, who share their life’s toughest challenge, how they overcame it and what they have learned. The podcast is led by the THA founder Jimmy Westerheim who has interviewed more than 1.000 people and led the THA journey.
They aim of THA is to re-define mental health and this podcast will contribute to that by exploring the challenges, stigmas and opportunities in our society. Because we all have our human aspect, it is just a question of what that means to us.
Welcome and good listening
Aspects
The impact of sharing your story with the world with Chris Medina
What happens when you share your story with the world, and let people in behind the mask?
The artist Chris Medina got famous for his "story" through "American Idol" and the song that followed "what are words", about his fiance's terribly injured from a car accident. This changed his life, but at one point the "story" became the only reality the world wanted to accept, and Chris' reality did not match. For years he battled the pressure of what he felt everyone expected of him. He shared his story of the aftermath of fame, the following pressure, his loneliness in it all and the tough depression he got through where he did not see any way out. Today it is still the most viewed story in the library and here is the impact.
Learn what impact and feedback Chris got in the interview he describes as his most open interview ever and hear how he found self-healing in the process. Also hear about the hundreds of messages he got from people thanking him for sharing his untold journey.
Jimmy "The Founder of THA" and Chris discuss the process of an interview and what an interview can do both for the people watching them globally and the person who shares. As always when the two friends Jimmy and Chris chat you get humor and energy.
Press play and enjoy.