Faces of Fortitude: Behind the Lens M Abeo

In this episode, I am joined by my friend, TEDx speaker and healer, Manav Khanna and his 15 year old daughter who is the creator of the youth-led platform DETOXIMIND - which provides a safe-space for teens and young adults struggling with mental well-being.
This is an emotional and tender segment, where we speak to Krishnni about her darkest moments of suicidal ideation and how she has been inspired to turn her experience into a project that not only provides support for herself, but others like her. 
Please visit their website to learn more and to become involved. 
https://www.detoximind.com/ 
https://www.instagram.com/detoximind/ 

This months Behind the Lens podcast episode is LIVE - and we welcome Tracy & Maggie - mother and daughter with 3 family suicides between them. 
Tracy and Maggie join us to share their story of grief, loss and resilience - we discuss how the losses affected the trajectory of their lives, and how having a similar narrative helped bring them closer in their grief.

This month I am so happy to welcome Megan - who sat for her portraits a few years ago in Los Angeles. Megan and her siblings lost their father, a single dad - to suicide. Megan bravely unpacks more of her story in today's episode and shares the heartwarming story of how their community really came together to make her and her siblings feel loved and not alone in the wake of their horrible loss. 
 

In this episode we are happy to welcome Sarah Climaco, to share more of here story since doing here portrait session. In this episode we discuss her mother and here history with mental illness, how she survived such a scary time - and then ultimately how she has and is processing the suicide of here mother. 

This months episode of Behind the Lens our guest is mother of two and suicide loss survivor, Annu Sangha. We met Annu first in August when she became our newest Face in the project, having her photo shoot. Now Annu is back to share more of her story. She wanted to share the difficult moments and her trajectory, in the hopes that it could possibly help someone else going through something similar. 
Thank you Annu for sharing and thank you everyone who has listened. 
Annu IG: @anew_puma 
 

Pennie had her first Faces of Fortitude session in 2018. She returns to the podcast to share more of her story of suicidal ideation and incest survival. Pennie is a TEDx speaker, author or Brave and Unbroken and Founder of the Soul Fire Weekends. 
https://penniesaum.com/