What You Will Learn
- Understand bipolar's impact on the one you love
- Create your own Love Well blueprint to guide your support in a sustainable and empowering way
- Ways to improve communication with your loved one
- Strategies to manage triggers
- Tips to build your own support system
- How to keep your mental health foundation strong
- Resources to support the development of your loved one's support network
Your Facilitator
Paris Scobie was diagnosed with Bipolar 1 at 19 years old, an experience that deeply shaped her mission to help others navigate life with bipolar. After her own hospitalization, she returned to work as a provider at the very facility where she was once a patient, as well as other clinics, supporting individuals living with bipolar. Her firsthand experience—both as someone managing the condition and as a professional in the mental health field—led her to advocacy work, where she now empowers others to understand and support those living with bipolar.
Paris not only lives with bipolar but loves many people who do, giving her a personal stake in this work. This stake is rooted in the belief that through education and empathy, you can learn to provide effective support without compromising your own health. By sharing evidence-based strategies and personal insights, Paris is dedicated to empowering you with a balanced approach to care that nurtures both the individual with bipolar disorder and the caregiver.Over the years, she has learned what is truly effective—not just in supporting herself but in helping others bridge the common gaps and barriers that make it challenging to support someone living with bipolar. She is the host of Live Well Bipolar, a top 1% globally ranked podcast with listeners in over 130 countries, and the author of Crooked Illness: Lessons from Inside and Outside Hospital Walls, a memoir that serves as a guide for understanding the realities of bipolar.