EP49: Lily Asch - Storytelling For Mental Health

INSPIRED EDINBURGH - THE HOME OF POWERFUL CONVERSATIONS

English - December 09, 2017 16:33 - 1 hour - 48.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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This week on Inspired Edinburgh we have Lily Asch.

Lily is a mental health advocate, storyteller and social entrepreneur.

As a teenager she was considered ‘unsafe to self’ and admitted to a psychiatric ward. For a long time she was ashamed of her experience, until she opened up and discovered the power of conversation.

Having gained experience working with the likes of FreshSight and TEDx University of Edinburgh she's since gone on to found Real Talk, a social enterprise dedicated to mental health storytelling and wellbeing. Real Talk supports individuals in connecting to their narrative around experiences of mental ill health and crafts safe spaces for these stories to be shared to an audience, fostering conversation and connection.

We talk about her background, her mental health journey, the vision for Real Talk, her views on mental health today, as well as our favourite topics - legacy, purpose and changing the world.

00.00 Trailer

00.15 Introduction

01.30 Lily growing up

03.00 Schooling in the US

05.00 Lily’s earliest mental health experiences

07.20 What led to Lily being taken to a psychiatric ward?

09.50 How was Lily labelled ‘unsafe to self’?

12.00 What was the ward like?

15.00 Does Lily think she should have been there?

17.15 What was the recovery process?

19.50 Lily’s self education around emotional awareness

22.30 How did Lily end up in Edinburgh?