Episode 076 with Singer/Songwriter & Blind Author Heather Hutchison - Seeing More Clearly

The Junkyard Love Podcast

Heather Hutchison is an award-winning singer/songwriter and the author of Holding On by Letting Go: A Memoir. Blind since birth and having struggled with mental illness from a young age, she is passionate about educating people on disability and mental health through her music and writing. An avid traveler, Heather has spent time living and teaching English in Latin America, and her memoir catalogs her story - "Being blind since birth, a once-spirited kid with big dreams now finds herself in a locked psychiatric facility--a wounded young woman in the midst of a global pandemic. This memoir spans decades and continents to tell a story of the beautiful similarities that make us all human. From meeting unlikely allies in the dirty streets of some of Latin America's most impoverished neighborhoods to discovering difficult truths about discrimination in her home country of Canada, Heather Hutchison offers poignant insight into mental health awareness, and what it means to strive for an ordinary life when you are often treated as anything but ordinary. At once heartbreakingly honest and strikingly witty, Holding On by Letting Go is the unforgettable true story of one woman's journey through despair to acceptance and hope. Ultimately, it is a portrayal of the light that can be found in the darkest of times." For more on Heather - checkout: https://books.heather-hutchison.com/ https://open.spotify.com/artist/07t3LapcWFZmhrUN5FJ15n?si=yC-WPZbPSHmzXqtOTIp8lA&dl_branch=1 https://www.youtube.com/user/HHutchisonMusic https://www.instagram.com/heatherhutchisonmusic/ https://www.amazon.com/Holding-Letting-Go-Heather-Hutchison-ebook/dp/B094674YMR