Jennifer Ann Butler
Today, on Inside the Minds Eye, a conversation with Jennifer Ann Butler: writer, doodler, creative, and spiritual savant.\n\nButler has spent most of her life struggling with depression. Last October, she began the arduous process of weaning herself off of anti-depressants. \n\nAfter her medications had been discontinued completely, she began to experience emotions that had left her, for lack of a better word, confused.\n\nIntense feelings of happiness, sadness, and all-around existential angst. \n\nJen re-formatted her life to allow for holistic means it self-care. Excercises, healthy eating, and a regiment of transparent honesty in the face of complex emotional states.\n\nMindfulness.\n\nShe began to redirect her thoughts towards positive affirmations while maintaining honest and open communication.\n\nShe used her writing, and her voice, to share these feelings with a network of people experiencing similar afflictions of the mind.\n\nDuring this journey, she managed to funnel her energy into a book titled, "Imperfect" (How I Utilized the Energy of Depression to Write a Book).\n\nThe book is finished and is currently being crowd funded for self-publication.\n\nHere is the link if you wanna throw some love towards realizing a life-long dream:\n\nhttp://www.gofundme.com/imperfectbook\n\nIf you donate 25 dollars towards publication, Jen will sign a fresh copy of the book and send it directly to you. \n\nAnd, if you want to read more about Jen, visit her website: \n\nwww.JenniferAnnButler.com\n\nFeaturing the Music of: P Suade aka Patrick Mahon (www.facebook.com/PSuadeMusic)\n\n"Inside the Minds Eye Theme": Written and Produced by Chase Perry\n\n"Objects in the Mirror": Written and Produced by P Suade\n\n-SHOW NOTES-\n\n3:45- Jen's 30 day Search for God and Confusion in a Church Service\n\n8:33- Jen is Diagnosed with Cancer\n\n11:23- Sober without AA (Learning about the brain, nutrition, and addiction)\n\n13:23- How Jen removed cravings using healthy eating and brain activity stuff\n\n16:50- Jen goes to AA meetings and is confronted about her sobriety date\n\n21:20- Jen discusses her Non-Profit "Shock Awake" (www.shockawake.org)\n\n26:40- How Jen Wrote "Imperfect"\n\n37:39- Story of a 2 Guru Tickle Fight\n\n38:57- Heavy AA conversation about the community, red bulls, and writing a book through pain\n\n55:02- Jen shares her experience working on the 4th & 5th step's of Alcoholics Anonymous\n\n1:02:00- Why are we here?