Description
Mental Health Publishing and Empowerment is a book that explains
how writing and publishing is a cathartic and empowering experience
for Jason and Chipmunkapublishing authors. This book contains
Jason's views on writing and empowerment as well as the views and
experiences of over 20 Chipmunkapublishing authors. Each authors
comments are analysed by Jason to show how they reflect the Mental
Health Publishing and Empowerment process that Chipmunka offers.
This book is an academic work that reveals how Chipmunka is
effective as a social enterprise.
About the Author
Jason Pegler is known internationally for his work as a social
entrepreneur. He was born in 1975. He was diagnosed with manic
depression in 1992. This is his fifth book. He is the author of 'A
Can of Madness', 'Curing Madness' and 'The Ultimate Guide To Well
Being'. His first three books can be bought together in the trilogy
Bipolar, Recovery and NLP.
Jason is the CEO of Chipmunkapublishing and Co-Founder of The
Chipmunka Foundation. He dedicates his life to empowering people
with mental health issues so that they can fulfill their potential
and help others.
Book Extract
"For years now I have been asking myself the same question? How
can I cure the world of mental illness? I don't know how exactly
but there is this manic impulse within me wanting it to happen. I
used to think that if I could not help everyone who contacted me
then it was my fault. I had failed somehow. This is not the case.
It is not realistic to be able to help everyone. It took me five
years of publishing to realise this.
The objective of this book is to show how Chipmunkapublishing
helps people, so what better way to have words from me As CEO
trying to sanitise my own manic utopian vision and then include 500
words from over 20 authors about how writing and publishing has
helped them.
I know that wanting to help others is somehow a cathartic
process and justifies my own label and coming to terms with being
labelled a manic depressive for the rest of my life. I knew that I
wanted to help people as soon as I realised my own madness six
weeks into a six month stretch of my first manic episode at the age
of 17 in 1992.
My utopian and manic vision to want to eliminate the world from
mental illness actually turned into my day job as CEO of
Chipmunkapublishing. Little did I know how much work there was to
do... It was a good job I met Andrew Latchford who was equally as
determined as myself to somehow make a different and improve
people's lives. I know somehow that my task is impossible but I
wouldn't be challenging myself or doing other people justice if I
did not aim to have a positive impact on the highest number of
people.
Chipmunkapublishing has a system that works for many people. In
our own small way we are making a positive impact in the lives of
many of our authors, their families and many of our readers.
We will continue to grow and inspire others through our work by
trying and develop our organisation so it is more transparent, more
professional and more effective as technology advances, the
publishing industry changes and people's requirements evolve.
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