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Collective Revolution with a Mission
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Collective Revolution with a Mission

The Collective with Wendy Adamson


Author, mental health advocate, and activist Wendy Adamson, comes onto The Collective to discuss her books Mother Load and Incorrigible, mental health, addiction, overcoming internal struggles, incarceration, homelessness, and how she and her son founded the non profit—Hav A Sol.

Wendy Adamson is a mental health advocate, a motivational speaker, and the author of two memoirs, Mother Load and Incorrigible which chronicle her own struggles with addiction, mental health, and incarceration, and her stories have been published in the Huffington Post. Wendy volunteers extensively at her son’s non-profit, Hav A Sole, an organization that serves marginalized communities. As a beacon of hope, Wendy has been invited to speak in prisons, on stage, and on public radio. Wendy believes by sharing these stories it will help break the stigmas associated with ex-offenders and addicts. In 2022, Wendy received a commendation from the County of Los Angeles for her dedicated service to the community. In 2023, she was also recognized by the Women’s Association for Addiction Treatment (WAAT) for her commitment to service.

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We are all apart of the collective. It is not a special group or community out of anyone’s reach. The trees, the earth, the plants, the insects, the animals, and humans are all apart of the collective. We each have something to give to the world and our communities around us. It’s in knowing how to care for the ones we love, the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat. It is all self-care. Community care is self-care. And together we are more than community, we are like the stars singing in the sky. We are music and our voices are the hum of the universe. Because we are of the earth and things of stars, and so is every thing on this earth.

Thank you for taking joining me on this journey. I hope that we can all come together to create positive change.

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