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The Speakeasy

Ericka Andersen | Leaving Cloud 9 | Ep. 74

The Speakeasy

The Girl Named Blake

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Your host Blake and author Ericka Sylvester discuss her book chronicling her husband’s traumatic childhood, what loving someone with mental illness looks like, and how to do it well.

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0:00.0

Hey y'all, welcome back to another episode of the Confessions of a Crappy Christian

0:08.6

Podcast.

0:09.6

I'm your host and resident crappy Christian, Blake Giche, and I'm so pumped to be bringing

0:15.3

you season two of this show, packed full of more people telling incredible stories of who

0:20.9

God is and what he's done.

0:24.0

This week's episode is with Erica Anderson.

0:27.0

Erica is a freelance writer and mom of two.

0:29.7

In her first book, Leading Cloud 9, details her husband's life story.

0:34.5

And today she's sharing some of that with us, as well as what it's like to love and live

0:39.8

with someone with mental illness.

0:44.2

Erica, hey, thank you so much for coming on the show today.

0:47.1

Yeah, I'm a big fan.

0:48.9

I've been listening to your show for about a year now, so I'm excited to be a guest.

0:53.0

Oh my gosh, that's so fun.

0:54.4

I didn't know that.

0:55.8

So you wrote a book, Leading Cloud 9, you also have your own podcast and your heavily

1:03.5

featured author.

1:04.5

I was like, clicking through some of your features and they are impressive.

1:07.9

So tell us about your book and about your husband Rick's story.

1:14.4

Yeah, well, I guess first I'll just say that I've been married to my husband for almost

1:20.6

seven years now.

1:21.6

I have two children that are ages four and one.

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