253. You’re Not Alone: How Brittany Snow & Jaspre Guest Promote Healing through Connection with September Letters #WellnessWednesdays
Be Well by Kelly Leveque
Kelly Leveque
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode I'm welcoming friend, prior client, and mental health advocate Brittany Snow, along with her co-founder of September Letters, Jaspre Guest to the podcast.
They graciously share insights from their new book, September Letters, an inspirational collection of letters, notes, and conversations among friends, celebrities, experts, and the September Letters community. It is a guide to help us clearly see that we are not alone, and that sharing your story is powerful and healing – a welcoming, embracing resource for anyone seeking to feel more connected with themselves and others.
In this episode, we talk about how they came up with the idea of September Letters, their goal with the book to promote connection and healing, and their favorite tools for supporting their mental health. I'm so excited to welcome them both so you can learn more about this movement.
We also cover…
00:01:00 — Finding Connection & Resilience through September Letters
- How Jaspre and Brittany met and started September Letters
- The initial vision of the September Letters cause
- Jaspre and Brittany share their experiences with their mental health
- Confronting the stigma of sharing mental health struggles
- Embracing vulnerability
- How social media does a disservice to someone going through mental health challenges
00:21:00 — Tools for Supporting Your Mental Health
- Their favorite tangible tools from experts in the book
- Creating your hype list
- Combating cultural pressures to be perfect and tools to fight negativity
- Bob Roth transcendental meditation
- The Joy Strategist by Grace Harry
- How transcendental meditation can impact your mental health
- How stillness and boredom lead to greater calm and creativity
00:39:00 — Healing through Feeling Your Feelings & Community
- Glennon Doyle podcast: We Can Do Hard Things
- Building the capacity to sit with emotions and build resilience
- How they decided to incorporate letters in the book and categorized stories by emotion
- Feel your feelings so that you can heal
- The most helpful tools in their toolboxes to help with anxiety or depression
- The way community and connection can heal
- How to know how to ask for help and be comfortable with receiving
- Creating the connection that we need
Resources:
- September Letters Website: septemberletters.com
- Read: September Letters
- Brittany’s Instagram: @brittanysnow
- Jaspre’s Instagram: @jaspre
- September Letters Instagram: @septemberletters
- Love is Louder Website: loveislouder.org
Connect with Kelly:
- kellyleveque.com
- Instagram: @bewellbykelly Facebook:
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| 0:00.0 | It's really important to stock your tool kit with things that you can go to. |
| 0:04.5 | When you're in crisis or something happens, you open Instagram and it makes your |
| 0:09.3 | brain turn left. That's really when you need one of these things and you can't |
| 0:14.6 | start figuring out what to do then. You need to be prepared with, okay, my hype list or |
| 0:19.8 | my joy snack or my team. Let me get one of those tools out and that's what I think are |
| 0:25.3 | biggest wishes for this block is just to help it be someone's tools. They can go to it when |
| 0:30.3 | they're feeling something to help navigate them through that. |
| 0:37.7 | In today's episode I'm welcoming friend, prior client, and mental health advocate, |
| 0:43.2 | Brittany Snow, along with her co-founder of September Letters, Jasper Guest, to talk about their new |
| 0:48.8 | book, September Letters. Brittany is a passionate, outspoken advocate for mental health awareness |
| 0:54.7 | in all being. She is the co-founder of the non-profit movement Love is Louder with the |
| 0:59.2 | Jed Foundation and MTV and she has written and directed and produced the parachute movie |
| 1:04.4 | about mental health and addiction that will be released in 2023. Jasper Guest created her career |
| 1:11.0 | by shunning traditional norms. Known as the fixer, she is the founder of the boutique branding and |
| 1:15.8 | PR agency Noise 784. She's led initiatives for a range of non-profits including it gets better, |
| 1:23.2 | global citizen, the international rescue committee, Love is Louder, and the ASPCA. Together, |
| 1:30.5 | they started September Letters and their new book is a welcoming, embracing resource for anyone |
| 1:35.8 | seeking to feel more connected with themselves and with others. I'm so excited to welcome them both |
| 1:41.0 | so you can learn more about this movement and their new book. |
| 1:47.3 | Brett and Jasper, I have waited so long to do this podcast with you. I feel like we have had |
| 1:52.9 | to reschedule and I'm so glad I'm getting this in before I got on maternity leave because, |
| 1:58.8 | first of all, your message and September Letters in general you know you created this company in 2020 |
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