<h1>Episode Notes</h1>
<p>Our poem &amp; episode this week are special birthday editions for Unsinkable’s 5th anniversary! We so hope you enjoy it. Please be sure to check out the resources, programs, partnerships, and action items shared in this episode. Thank you so much to our podcast guests from season 1 for lending their voices &amp; words to this poem. You can re-listen to their episodes below!</p>
<p>Here's an excerpt of the poem (the full written &amp; visually formatted versions can now be found &amp; read at <a href="http://mikbrew.substack.com/" rel="nofollow">mikbrew.substack.com</a>!):</p>
<p>Because we’ve braided this 
woven raft of 4.1 million people,
strong and vast, limbs linked, 
lying on our backs
and having practiced our breathing in sync,
above the waves
we float, steer, expand always
and all ways.</p>
<p>Listen to this week's episode to hear the full poem! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to <a href="http://tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves" rel="nofollow">tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves</a>.</p>

Thank You Smiles

Author, speaker, researcher, and storyteller, Mikaela Brewer, brings us Braving the Waves & Bridging the Gap: Stories of Unsinkable Resilience & Resolvving Stigma. This podcast features a series of storytelling-focused conversations with youth in our communities. Inspired and guided by the powerful advocacy, care, and storytelling legacy at Resolvve and Unsinkable, Brewer speaks to some of today’s most empowering young storytellers, writers, musicians, comedians, activists and more about their mental health journey in a deeper, refreshing way.

Season 2 adds a new layer to storytelling. To complement the programs at Unsinkable & Resolvve's work supporting students, Mikaela offers another way to Brave the Waves: crafting words for moments that feel like they don't have any, especially for those who don't feel comfortable writing, speaking, or publicly sharing. Each week, Mikaela gathers anonymous voice notes, memories, journal entries, photos, drawings, and anything that captures a specific, meaningful moment, through a memory box form. She then creates a poem and episode to offer a comforting way to pause in a moment, preserve a memory, and feel seen/heard in it as it's given words and read aloud. Head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves to read more about the process and submit!

Season 1 of Braving the Waves featured a series of storytelling-focused conversations with youth in our communities. Inspired and guided by the powerful advocacy, care, and storytelling legacy at Resolvve and Unsinkable, Mikaela spoke with some of today’s most empowering young storytellers, writers, musicians, comedians, activists and more about their mental health journey in a deeper, refreshing way.

Resolvve, driven by a lack of comprehensive mental health literacy being taught in high schools and universities, aims to fill the gap by providing mental health education and rapid access to integrated therapeutic services.

Unsinkable, a charitable organization founded by Olympic hero and mental health advocate Silken Laumann, aims to use storytelling to help people #BridgeTheGap between struggling with their mental health and taking steps towards mental well-being.