Living a Fulfilling and Powerful Life with Bipolar 1 - a podcast by Paul Nyhart

Brittany Bronson will surprise you. 

When I first met Brittany, it was at a relatively modest karaoke night at a very local sports bar. It was the kind of bar that wasn’t upscale but also wasn’t embarrassing—very clean, good people, but was basically holding over for the next fight night or football game or both. 

But the more I began learning Brittany's personal story—the conflict(s) she had gone through over the past ten to fifteen years of her life—I naturally wanted to learn more.

Brittany will surprise you, because she doesn't fit many of the stigmas most of us associate with bipolar 1. She isn't someone who is bipolar 1, she has bipolar 1. And choosing to make that distinction, to live her life with an illness, has allowed her to start her own movement (well, technically it's called Space MVMNT).

The irony is, the conflicts that have come Brittany's way have allowed her to bring other people together. Her Space MVMNT peer group was founded with the sole purpose of making mental illness more accessible. To make it feel more humane.

If nothing else, Brittany's story is a reminder to anyone and everyone—medical condition or not— that you aren’t just one thing: you can be a person diagnosed and living with bipolar disorder and someone who dances at karaoke night at the same time, just as much as you can have periods of anxiety but still embrace change. Accomplishing two things at once takes the right mindset and discipline. Perhaps most importantly, it takes an understanding of what’s precious.

This is the story about how she discovered what was precious to her. 

This is Brittany Bronson’s Story of Bao.

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