Such an awakening to know that the very thing you were trying to kill your entire life is

the one reason you were probably put here on this planet.

That really was a wow moment for me.

From the outside looking in this week's guest Melissa Bernstein is a wife, a mom of six,

a partner with her husband in a legendary toy business, Melissa and Doug, that has become

massive and a huge success story that's been built over a series of decades.

They've built a life together, a family together, a business together, becoming incredibly

service-minded, helping you launch mnors and all sorts of different things, and created

toys that have delighted and created joy in the faces, the smiles and the lives of millions

of kids and families.

Which is why it makes it really hard to believe that underneath it all, from the time she

was a young child, Melissa has lived with a veil of darkness that has sort of followed

her through her entire life, that she has struggled mnally with in many different ways

and kept hidden, kept secret from the world.

And she asked to share what's been going on behind the scenes, in a very powerful moving

raw, beautiful conversation, she takes us into a part of her life that has been entirely

private, known to almost nobody, and how she has recently learned to almost mine that part

of her life as source fuel for beauty and joy and delight in the world.

I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is Good Life Project.

Fancy a fever tree and vodka.

Yes, vodka, not gin, because this is fever tree Mexican lime soda.

Yes, soda, not tonic.

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