But the biggest ripple that Leah was able to make in her life was in impacting mental health. As a staff member, and eventually supervisor, she supported a wilderness based youth addiction and mental health program, which taught her so much about what people truly need in their lives to be mentally healthy. Partially due to her training and experience there, she was also able to support two people she cared about to not choose suicide, which is what led her to understanding her purpose.
Because the impact of a lack of mental health affects us all. Not only people who suffer from mental illness, but those who are experiencing any sort of challenge they feel they can not mentally cope with. And their pain and struggles ripple out to affect all of the people around them.
Leah knows that by making people more connected in their relationships, more in alignment with what is important to them, and able to be the kind of leaders we need, there can be more mental well being in the world.