Speaking
I’m a lived experience educator and advocate with extensive speaking experience. My story has been featured on NBC and shared in classrooms, conferences, hospitals, and intimate peer spaces alike. I speak across diverse settings, drawing on my experience collaborating with peer support communities and traditional clinical disciplines to share my journey or teach about voices, visions, unusual beliefs, stigma, discrimination, and social justice.
Every talk centers a human-first lens — reminding us that people who live with psychosis deserve full, meaningful lives, just like anyone else. My goal is always to expand understanding, reduce fear, and help shift how we see mental health and how we support each other.
“Hearing voices isn’t actually the problem. At the heart of our distress is the way we’re taught to respond — with fear, powerlessness, and a belief that voices are always meaningless. Society has it all wrong. Healing happens when we stop fearing voices — and start supporting each other and the people who hear them.”
- Jeannie Bass
