EP79: A World Free of Self-Doubt with H.P. Waitt
Let's Talk About It With Taylor Nolan
Wave Podcast Network
3.4 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Self-published author H.P. Waitt’s passion for increasing awareness about mental illness is why she decided to have her main character in her debut book Band of Shadows: The Scarlet Onyx Saga live with the same mental illnesses that Waitt did as a teenager. Waitt shares her experiences in therapy, how her anxiety and depression manifests, what coping looks like for her, and why you shouldn’t look at your illness as a character flaw. Waitt also shares the work she’s doing of raising awareness on restoring our oceans and fighting human trafficking.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Let's Talk About It. I am your host Taylor and today we are getting |
| 0:09.8 | into a new topic. We are going to be discussing a new young adult trilogy that explores an |
| 0:16.8 | enchanting dream land that actually erases self-doubt. In the first book of its series, |
| 0:23.9 | the author will be talking to shortly HP Weight and she's got this amazing passion for increasing |
| 0:31.1 | awareness about mental illness and why she also decided to have her main character in her book |
| 0:36.2 | Scarlett live with the same mental illness that she did as a teenager. So in the band of shadows, |
| 0:43.4 | Scarlett discovers that she is a Faye who is destined to help her kind and along the way she |
| 0:50.5 | comes to realize that her diagnosis is actually one of her greatest supernatural powers. So I want to |
| 0:57.2 | kind of pose a question to you guys who are listening. If you've ever been haunted by a dream, |
| 1:04.1 | one that felt so real, now you wonder why you didn't give into your subconscious and live in it |
| 1:08.8 | forever. If you've ever experienced ajaabu, so intense, you knew it was your purpose to follow it |
| 1:14.0 | to the ends of the earth so it can show you what is destined to happen. If you have, then band |
| 1:20.8 | of shadows might be a great book for you. In this Scarlett onyxab saga, Weight follows the 17-year-old |
| 1:28.8 | Scarlett, who we spoke about, who has never really felt a part of this world and she bounces between |
| 1:34.1 | foster homes her entire life and because of that she feels safer in her dreams, where she keeps |
| 1:39.2 | trying to find and reach this mysterious door, but she always wakes up before she sees |
| 1:44.7 | us on the other side. So when she encounters this door in real life, she opens it and is actually |
| 1:49.9 | transported to the island of Avalon, which is this enchanting dream land where self-doubt does not |
| 1:56.5 | exist and she realizes that why she's always felt different in the world is because she's actually |
| 2:03.6 | not from this world and that she's a fai. So it's a little bit of fancy here. And what follows are |
| 2:10.8 | then her adventures into handling her newfound powers with care all the while being on the lookout |
| 2:17.0 | for the band of shadows, which the phase kind of caused this big rebellion and it leads to their |
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