May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and we are celebrating by sharing the first episode of The TMI Project Story Hour Season 7, Vicarious Resilience: Storytelling for Mental Health. 

Vicarious Resilience highlights the brave souls who stepped on stage and shared the truth about their experiences to raise awareness and break the stigma around mental illness topics like depression, schizophrenia, substance abuse, and generational trauma, and recovery.

Episode one features storyteller and TMI Project Executive Director Eva Tenuto. 

After years of self medicating her depression with running, herbal supplements, and binge drinking, a tearful call to her mother helps Eva to confront her resistance to pharmaceuticals, and see the state of her mental health with a newfound clarity.

Listen to “Eva is NOT Mentally Ill” and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

You can read the essay version of Eva’s story, “Am I ‘Blue’?” on Memoir Land, a newsletter edited by Sari Botton.

Get up to speed on more recent events in Eva’s life in her recent interview in Oldster Magazine, also edited by Sari Botton: “This is 50: True Storytelling Pioneer Eva Tenuto Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire”