Amanda Clarfield Newell is the only music teaching, lupus suffering, article writing, Comic-Con going, social media managing mother of a 12 year old white, female beatboxer I&apos;ve ever met.  Amanda has moved mountains in order to battle her incurable illness while raising two children and remaining as active as she can. She is a warrior and an inspiration. Please consider a donation to <a href='https://tinyurl.com/y727g5z9'>National Resource Center on Lupus </a><a rel="payment" href="http://patreon.com/lightersidepodcast">Support the show</a> (http://patreon.com/lightersidepodcast)

Peer Recovery Support  with Sheilah

It started as a weight loss podcast, which quickly became a mental health podcast, which somehow became a pandemic podcast.  Jay, your host  (anxiety/depression/OCD/childhood trauma/family addiction)  lost 185 lbs after having bariatric surgery.  Guests have ranged from actor Ken Marino to a woman you have never heard of who lost 250 lbs, to a recovering addict, to essential workers during COVID-19. In 2020, the show became daily and ran for 100 episodes in 100 days. The culmination of everything The Lighter Side strove to be, Jay created an oral history of the pandemic, as told through the voices of the people who lived through it. There's something for everyone on the Lighter Side.