Episode 8:
Finding Solace in
an Unlikely Place
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🎙️In this week’s episode, Sally Edelstein shares her essay, “Finding Solace in an Unlikely Place,” reflecting on her lifelong battle with depression, and PTSD, and how she found the strength to live in an unexpected place.
During our conversation, Sally opened up about her personal experiences with trauma and how therapy has shaped her understanding of her mental health struggles. Despite the disconnect between how she has appeared and her ongoing struggles, Sally found strength in her ancestors and renewed self-love for herself by trusting her voice and her creativity. Her experience highlights the burden of societal stigma for mental health sufferers. We talked about the urgent need to end the stigmatization and the importance of listening to each other through genuine conversions about our mental health struggles.
Sally Edelstein is an award-winning N.Y. collage artist and writer who considers herself a visual archeologist digging deep into American mythology, excavating and examining the social fiction we and society have told ourselves over the past 70 years. A nationally exhibited artist, she has received multiple awards from the Society of Three Dimensional Illustrators, The Art Directors Club Of N.Y., and the Society of Illustrators. As a writer, her essays have appeared in The Independent, The N.Y. Daily News, Tablet, Next Avenue, and The Ethel, told through both text and illustration her blog Envisioning the American Dream probes how advertising and media steer out perceptions of race, class, and gender.
She received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts, and her work has been shown at The Heckscher Museum of Art, Museum of Sonoma County, Arlington Art Museum, Brown University, and Reece Museum. She currently resides in Huntington, New York.
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💜 If you’re struggling, you don’t have to do it alone. In the US, you can call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Hotline (available 24/7). Please remember: you’re loved and your life matters.
