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Jump is Callie Hunter’s debut memoir on her experience with chronic illness. This episode takes the listener behind the scenes on what the book is about, why Callie wrote it, and who it’s for. Check out the author page here.
“I wanted to give some of my story to help them on theirs…We need to advocate for better mental health support for people going through a chronic illness diagnosis…It does not ever feel like there’s a way out… and so it feels like the only way out is to end your life and I guess I wanted to be a voice to say that it’s not the only way… relief is possible. Even after a year and a half of pain. … This is not the end of your story…
It’s for people who are facing something, maybe it’s not an illness, but maybe it’s something in their life that they just feel like they can’t get past. They’ve tried so hard for so long and the light just never appears. It’s just one step after one step after one step into the darkness and it does not feel like they will ever ever see a relief to their pain, whatever that pain may be, this book is for you. Because, I found in the darkness, to stop looking for the light to find me and to start looking within to find the light itself that was already there.”
To order your copy of Jump, click here