Real mental health conversations. Humor included.

I talk about the uncomfortable.
We'll laugh through the chaos.

Meet Jillian

Jillian is a writer and speaker who uses dark humor to navigate mental health chaos. She navigated anorexia as a teenager, experienced her first bipolar episode in her 20s, and received a late-to-the party ADHD diagnosis at 36.

Out of desperation and ugly tears, what began as naming her depression “Dolores” evolved into a creative coping method — personifying her mental health struggles as characters with their own backstories.

Her upcoming book, Here Is My Crown, includes the actual journal entries she kept during her time in an eating disorder clinic, now paired with present-day commentary. Offering real-time, unfiltered thoughts, the journal is proof of resilience and the ability to laugh even during one’s darkest times.

Through self-deprecating, laugh-until-you-cry storytelling, Jillian’s fresh take on discussing mental health helps audiences feel validated and energized.

Signature Talks

Turn Off Her Microphone: Time to Reclaim Your Spotlight

Mental health turns into chaos when your real inner voice is kicked off center stage and replaced with a toxic impersonator. Even after trying everything, the brain chatter is relentless. People feel trapped, and they want a real story showing how to escape mental hell.

Forget another lecture- it’s time to get creative. Dealing with a toxic impersonator comes with a fun rolodex of symptoms including intrusive thought and behavior patterns.

I began personifying my mental health struggles with names and a backstory colored with dark humor. By turning them into tangible characters, struggling audience members can rise above their power by controlling the narrative. As the loud chaos turns quiet, they are able to let their authentic voice speak.

Audience Takeaways

How first-hand, self-deprecating stories demonstrate humor as an immediate form of emotional relief from overwhelming intrusive thoughts
A practical, creative tool for personifying the toxic impersonator, allowing the authentic voice to reclaim the spotlight

Here Is My Crown:
Write Through the Chaos So You Don’t Lose Your Mind

When life becomes a whirlwind of intrusive thoughts and emotional chaos, you need an anchor- or spiraling ensues. Enter journaling: the place to dump all the unhinged thoughts that feel trapped. Your past thoughts, words, and memories are the road map that your future self can use as a road map to develop resiliency and clarity. With total honesty and dark humor, audiences learn that the words written on the page become a snapshot of needed proof: you can overcome any obstacle life throws at you.

Oh God, Make It Stop:

Because If We Can’t Laugh Through Pain, How the Hell Are We Getting Out?

Mental pain loves the drama. It gets giddy over downward spirals and uses ugly tears as the response to any stressor. When you focus on making the pain go away, it is only too eager to turn up the decibels. What alleviates that mental pain? Enter: humor. This talk shows how laughing immediately removes the heaviness from unbearable emotional load and creates a space for clarity. Through unfiltered stories filled with dark times and dark humor, audiences will learn how laughing through pain is the ultimate tool for getting the hell out of the “Oh god, make it stop” times.

Contact Jillian to Speak

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