A Mad identity is for someone with mental illness, those who might consider outside of what one might consider normal, neurodivergent, or thinking outside of ‘normal’.

Madness has a long history and complex community.

When a client is exploring Mad identity it is important to know the history and social contexts of madness.

During a client’s journey of Mad identity, we will explore ways one can develop skills of self-compassion and love.

Once you have scheduled a free consultation, we will set up your initial coaching session.

The initial session will be exploring how you feel you fit in with the world, how you feel about mental illness, and your personal and professional goals.

We will then meet every two weeks to work on agreed topics and continue goal-setting.

Our sessions will:

facilitate a client’s relationship with their connection of mental illness, the social world, and self-love.

We will work to develop radical acceptance of one’s madness, others’ experiences of madness, and one’s personal development of Mad pride and Mad identity.

James Baldwin writes, to “use the word “love” here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace…in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.

Love serves to expand our limitations as love liberates. To love means to hold something, some ‘body’ in a state of compassion and care.

To build skills of critical love/compassion is to build the capacity to treat ourselves and others with love and reverence. This allows us to care for all parts of ourselves, good and bad, happy and sad without expectations or desires to be ‘perfect’.

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